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Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

Our email post-bag received a flurry of queries this week about a recall of Nissan vehicles that got national media attention.

Our email post-bag received a flurry of queries this week about a recall of Nissan vehicles that got national media attention.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is calling for the HSE to immediately honour its obligations, arising from employment contracts, and pay all outstanding moneys due to public health nurses, community nurses and other HSE staff.

A milestone in motoring history - the 125th anniversary of the invention of the motor car by Karl Benz – was marked recently with a presentation to the Royal Irish Automobile Club by the Mercedes-Benz organisation in Ireland.

Ninety years ago this week, Galway was abuzz with the news that Fr Griffin, a junior curate for the parishes of Bushy Park and Barna, apparently responding to a sick call, went out into the howling gale in the company of three men who were said to have trench coats and rubber boots, and disappeared. The suspicion was that he had been decoyed from his house. It was significant that he did not take the Blessed Sacrament with him. His housekeeper heard very loud knocking as if with the butt ends of revolvers on the front door near midnight, as did one of the neighbours. Apparently Fr Griffin opened his window, spoke briefly to the men, and then left with them shortly afterwards.

A woman who allowed a four-year-old child to sleep unrestrained on the back seat of her car was disqualified from driving for a year in the District Court this week (November 10).

Believe it or not, big cars are back. Yes, sales of large luxury models predicted to rise in the years ahead.

Believe it or not, big cars are back. Yes, sales of large luxury models are predicted to rise in the years ahead.

Believe it or not, big cars are back. Yes, sales of large luxury models are predicted to rise in the years ahead.