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Engineering students from NUI Galway have won first place for technical innovation at Shell Eco-marathon Europe, the continent’s premier competition for ultra-efficient vehicles.

Engineering students from NUI Galway have won first place for technical innovation at Shell Eco-marathon Europe, the continent’s premier competition for ultra-efficient vehicles.

Peugeot has unveiled the all-new SW version of the Peugeot 508, bringing a new sense of style to the highly competitive D-segment estate car market.

For the fourth year in a row, Peugeot’s Turbo PureTech petrol engine was awarded international engine of the year, for the 1.0 litre to 1.4 litre category.

Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) presented its highest academic honour to four local figures at a ceremony held last Friday, April 27.

The new Citroen C4 Cactus hatchback goes on sale here on May 10 with prices starting from €19,995.

The Connacht Property Auction will hold its spring public auction event on Tuesday, April 24, at 7pm in The Menlo Park Hotel, Galway.

Among the many fine writers coming to Galway for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature is Mexican novelist Juan Pablo Villalobos. The author of three bitingly funny books, Down The Rabbit Hole, Quesadillas, and I’ll Sell You A Dog, he delivers sharply satirical, sometimes surreal, depictions of Mexico’s political and economic instability and inequity, and its crime problems.

While most people think of dolls as mass-produced Barbie-type artefacts, the creations of Kinvara based dollmaker Helga Pikal are of an entirely different order. Her hand-made, lovingly crafted, dolls present an array of vividly realised characters from world myth and folklore, as well as famous singers and musicians like Keith Richards and Willie Nelson.