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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Legendary African expedition Range Rover for sale

A 1973 Range Rover driven on an epic 14,000-mile, five-month expedition from Johannesburg to Somerset in the UK is on sale now at JD Classics.

Undertaken by ex-ITN Chief Foreign Correspondent, Michael Nicholson in 1981, this Range Rover has survived the Nyaki Mountains in Malawi and elephants in Dar es Salaam - all chronicled in Nicholson’s book Across the Limpopo.

Nicholson was sold the Range Rover by its first owner, Le Mans-winning racing driver Duncan Hamilton who specified it in Lincoln Green with a Palomino interior and a number of factory options. Full leather upholstery and a Webasto sunroof were both fitted as extras by Nicholson who bought the car in 1976 before shipping it to Johannesburg where he was working as ITN’s Chief Foreign Correspondent.

After four years of daily use in South Africa, Nicholson was due to head back to England but instead of the 16-hour flight, he packed his family and their belongings into his Range Rover and set off for home.

From South Africa, he headed through Zambia to the Nyika Plateau of Malawi, where he camped fearing for his family’s safety, staying up all night with a machete at hand. The Range Rover took them through Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area where they travelled side-by-side with wild rhinoceros, and saw them through dangerous encounters with bull elephants in Dar es Salaam. He then crossed the Serengetti to Kenya where it had to tackle a series of boggy washed away bridges where the average speed was 2.5 hour per mile.

Following its final route through Egypt, Sudan, Greece and the rest of Europe to the UK, the car was dry stored for many years. Recently it received a comprehensive bare shell restoration. The classic Range Rover market is hugely popular at the moment in the UK and this is a great opportunity to own a very special part of it. JD Classics is one of the world’s leading classic car companies and is based in Essex. It uses a team of 60 specialists who restore, race and sell classic cars to clients worldwide. See www.jdclassics.co.uk for further details.


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