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Taoiseach goes walkabout on visit to South Mayo with MEP Walsh

DRIVING HISTORY: Where we take a journey through someone’s driving past

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Current Car — Cllr Maher currently drives a Opel Insignia, it’s the reliable workhorse for many a sales rep, offering comfort and dependability for high milers. It also belies the surprising history and ambition of the Loughrea area councillor. His first car was an Austin Allegro back in the late 70s or early 80s. It was in the ‘ ZIM days’ he remembers, bought second hand and served him for a couple of years before being traded for a Ford. Working for Musgraves at the time, Michael progressed to a brand new Jaguar and a Merc he fell in love with .

How the Bolsheviks got one up on Churchill

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Even among the supreme leaders of Soviet Russia in the 1920s there was fear. When Clare Sheridan, the sculptor who spent her latter years in Galway, was leaving the Moscow War Ministry late one night accompanied by the powerful head of the Red Army and Commissar for Military Affairs, Leon Trotsky, armed soldiers on the bridge at the Neva, stood out on the road, and stopped their car.

Murphy critical of wheelchair access on Bus Eireann routes

Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon-Galway, Eugene Murphy, has criticised Bus Eireann for many of their routes throughout the country not being wheelchair accessible.

Council members pass vote of no confidence in An Taoiseach

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A motion of no confidence in An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was passed by the elected members of the Athenry-Oranmore Municipal Council, the first time a local authority has passed such a motion on the head of Government.

 

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