Renault teams with Irish Restaurant Awards 2017

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Renault Ireland and The Restaurant Association of Ireland have announced Renault Ireland as the official car partner of the Irish Restaurant Awards 2017, writes Trish Whelan . The Irish Restaurant Awards (RAI) will travel around the country driving new Renault models for a series of regional events this March to announce county and regional award winners across 15 different categories. County winners will be announced at four regional events with over 600 guests expected to attend each. This year’s host counties for the events are Kilkenny, Fermanagh, Limerick and Sligo. This year over 80,000 individual nominations were cast online from 11-25 January. Pictured above are Ciara Doyle (Business Development & Sponsorship Manager, Restaurant Association of Ireland), and Liz O’Gorman (Marketing Manager Renault Ireland) with two chefs from The Radisson Blue St Helen’s, Stillorgan Road, Dublin. Speaking on the quantity of nominations received, CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland
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Glory for Peugeot at 2017 Dakar Rally

Thirty years after its initial Dakar Rally success in 1987, Peugeot provided another sizzling demonstration of its sporting prowess with a landmark 1-2-3 finish at this year's event in South America.

In the hands of dream-team Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret, Sébastien Loeb / Daniel Elena and Cyril Despres / David Castera, three new Peugeot 3008DKRs completed the 2017 Dakar Rally's 9,000km run through Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina, to take victory on the final podium in Buenos Aires. The result takes Peugeot's score on the famous rally to six outright victories and is ideally timed to coincide with the launch of the new Peugeot 3008 SUV.

The 2017 cross-country rally turned out to be a close, drama-packed affair with numerous leader changes and exceptionally small gaps between drivers, from start to finish. The challenging route included high-altitude running, tougher than ever navigation and appalling weather. However, the brand's new, two-wheel drive Peugeot 3008DKR from Team Peugeot Total successfully took over the baton from last year's winning car, the Peugeot 2008DKR, and made an immediate mark on the world's toughest cross-country rally, warding off its all-wheel drive opposition to reign supreme.

Bruno Famin, Peugeot Sport Director, said, "After such an emphatic win, it's obviously been a positive event for us. We got three cars onto the podium and that's an accomplishment Peugeot and everyone at Peugeot Sport can be proud of. The 3008DKR won the Dakar at its first attempt, so there's every reason to be pleased with the jobs performed by everyone in the team, from the mechanics to the crews."


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