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The Ford Fiesta now comes with electronic stability programme as standard, making it the first volume-selling “supermini” on the Irish market to have this acclaimed safety aid as standard.

The Ford Fiesta now comes with electronic stability programme as standard, making it the first volume-selling “supermini” on the Irish market to have this acclaimed safety aid as standard.

The Ford Fiesta now comes with Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) as standard, making it the first volume-selling “supermini” on the Irish market to have this acclaimed safety aid as standard.

Mary Cummins from Kilmessan in Co Meath entered the record books when she “scrapped” her 30-years-old Fiesta in favour of a new model.

I always find it exciting when waiting to see what teams are paired against each other from the qualifier draw. I watched it live last weekend and once it was decided it would be Longford a good lively discussion took place about Mayo’s chances of progress. Most felt Mayo would be capable of beating Longford, a team that had a very mediocre season to date. When it was clarified later that evening that Longford had been awarded the home advantage for the match on Saturday June 26 (information that was not to hand when the discussion took place earlier), the task looked that little bit more difficult. I suggested in this column last week that it might be better for all if Mayo were drawn against a top tier side. Armagh, Derry, Kildare, or Donegal immediately spring to mind. Had we been drawn against any one of these teams and managed a victory, I feel the team could redeem itself and could certainly give us some hope for a reasonably good run through the qualifiers. However a match against Longford in Pearse Park just doesn’t set the pulse racing for me and I hope this particular clash gets the team a little more excited than I feel about it right now. I watched Longford play Louth in the Leinster Championship two weeks ago. It was a game they could so easily have won and they played without their star man, Brian Kavanagh. Their other star forward, Paul Barden, did play that evening, but was not 100 per cent fit. Both apparently are back training and will start against Mayo. Also in recent years I have attended the compact Longford venue and witnessed the home side frighten the lives out of very formidable opposition. I recall in 2006 a Dublin team looking mightily relieved to leave the midlands after scraping a two point victory over the home side. Longford sent Derry packing the year before in a qualifier game. Most of you will recall Kerry really struggling to beat them last year. So when their manager Glen Ryan suggested last week that he didn’t care who his side were drawn against as long as they had a home draw, you can fully understand where he was coming from.

A 20-year-old Mayo resident who allowed himself to be carried in a stolen vehicle whose other occupants were involved in a shooting incident has been given a two year sentence with the last 15 months suspended.

The stylish, latest generation Ford Fiesta was officially Europe's best-selling car in March and for the first quarter 2010.

The stylish, latest generation Ford Fiesta was officially Europe's best-selling car in March and for the first quarter 2010.

The rise in new car sales accelerated last month, as registrations grew by 38 per cent over February 2009. And the the jump in sales of vans was even more pronounced, at 72 per cent. Even with a couple of big fleet deals by two marques, this is a remarkable sales performance for vans and light commercials.

Ford had a big presence at the Geneva Motor Show with the new Focus and Focus estate attracting attention. However the C-Max family provided two of the star attractions on Ford's stand at the show. Developed as part of the company's ambitious global C-segment strategy and with a bold and dynamic two-model line-up, the C-MAX pair bring new levels of style and desirability to what Ford calls the compact multi-activity vehicle market.