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Last week, Sunderland witnessed a truly special and well-deserved moment as Sr. Mary Scholastica Nolan was granted the Freedom of the City. It was an occasion filled with pride, gratitude, and deep admiration for a life devoted to service. A native of Galway, she left home at just 17 years of age to join the Sisters of Mercy.

The Irish Professional Footballers Benevolent Association (IPFBA) will host its second annual golf classic at Galway Bay Golf Resort at Renville, Oranmore this Friday, September 12.

Nissan has announced a number of upgrades to its e-Power technology on the Qashqai. The upgrades promise to deliver better fuel consumption and lower emissions.

Nissan has announced that the Micra model will return to European roads later this year in the guise of an all-electric vehicle.

The name Audrey Amiss will be unknown to most of us. This is because until filmmaker Carol Morley, director of acclaimed films Dreams of a Life and The Falling, discovered eighty-four boxes of Amiss’ uncatalogued work when she was awarded the Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, Amiss had gone completely unnoticed by the British art world. Typist Artist Pirate King, Morley’s recent feature, remedies this. Based on Amiss’ life, the film is a fictional imagining of a trip Amiss takes with her psychiatric nurse, Sandra, to present her work to a gallery in Sunderland, Amiss’ birthplace and the sight of an incident that left her with severe mental health issues for the duration of her life.

Just before the conversation ends Tony Morley, the gifted Aston Villa league and European Cup winner, talks about the privilege of knowing Eamonn Deacy.

Eager to make an impact under John Caulfield’s stewardship at Galway United, new signing Charlie Lyons believes significant potential exists in the west of Ireland.

Thursday April 2

JULIE IS a film student in London in the late 1980s. She is trying to escape her life of privilege, but lives in her parents' flat in Knightsbridge. Yet, her attempts to make a film in Sunderland about a working class family are honest and admirable.