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Exhibition honouring Commander Bill King

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Galway City Museum last week hosted an unveiling to mark 50 years since Galway’s own Commander Bill King completed a three-year world circumnavigation in his yacht, the Galway Blazer II.

Bill King’s passion for the sea was inspired by his Granny Mackenzie

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Week IV

Cherishing all the children equally?

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Back in the 1960s my late mother had a two-door Morris Mini-Minor. The mini, about the size of a dog-kennel on wheels, was our family car for years (dad drove a van used for deliveries). I think the mini won the Monte Carlo Rally at one time and it became famous. Towards the end of the decade it actually became cool to have a Mini-Minor after the film The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine. But my brother and I had long legs, and the car became a torture chamber on long journeys. We hated the car. There was little room for us and later for my sister, and all her stuff, the dog (who went ballistic if he saw another dog on the street), the weekly shopping, and all the detritus that family cars gather.

 

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