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It's that time again when many of you feel like getting a 251G plate on your car, or you are tempted by the value in the secondhand market.

Commuters in county Galway are missing out on a great saving that is currently only available in Cork and Dublin which is that you can combine train and bus journeys into one fare using a Leap Card, provided your final journey started within 90 minutes of your first, you only pay €2.

Local Cllr Evelyn Parsons has called on the Minister for Transport to immediately intervene in the reinstatement of a multi-stop bus services along the Galway-Ballinasloe-Dublin route. This follows the decision by the National Transport Authority not to introduce a new route to following Aircoach’s decision to cease operating on the route.

Cars have played a key role in Irish society over the past half century. Back then, not everyone had a car, so they were a novelty, a treat which created the notion of the Sunday spin, the journey to a match, the 'are we there yet?' moments that fill the memory boxes of so many families.

Toyota has closed out the year as Ireland’s most popular car brand. With 12.44 per cent share of the passenger car market and four of its models in the top ten best-sellers.

On Monday, Galway City Councillors once again have the opportunity to be world leaders in Active Travel and Climate Action by supporting a much longed for temporary Salthill Cycleway, as permanent plans for an urban greenway for Galway and flood defences are progressed.

Ivors are the first and main dealer in the west of Ireland to introduce the fully electric Eco-Scooter, seen as the future in city commuting.

Regular readers of Gardenwise might remember me mentioning, earlier in the summer, that I always dread hearing about a hosepipe ban, because nothing is more guaranteed to result in torrential rain shortly thereafter. I’ll leave you to judge for yourself whether that observation has this year been justified, pausing only to point out that the ban has, for some weeks, been lifted.

If the pre-Christmas fear that we would have a general election achieved nothing else, it did flush a few Dáil hopefuls out into the public domain, resulting in a bit of competitive electioneering, particularly from two of the city's more testosterone loaded FF hopefuls.

Volvo Cars continues to expand its line-up of SUVs with the launch of the new XC40 small premium SUV, which arrives here in January for the new 2018 market.