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Mini Club of Ireland mentioned in The SUN!

The Mini Club of Ireland was recently mentioned in the September 2nd edition of The  SUN newpaper! There was a great two page article written by Ken Gibson, the Motoring Editor, on the MINI reaching the Amazing milestone of Two Million MINI’s sold to date. Ken said “Today a MINI is built every 68 seconds. About 900 roll off the production each day and the Oxford Factory is working flat out on two shifts for five daysa week. Their MINI’s are now shipped to more than 90 countries, from the United Arab Emirates to Venezuela, as the car reaches parts of the world it never got to before. The US market was never previously cracked but the New MINI has recorded more than 400,000 sales there and America now vies with the UK as … Read entire article »

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Mini Club Presentation to Strawberry Field :

Mini Club Presentation to Strawberry Field :

On Sunday the 3rd of July the Mini Club of Ireland visited the Strawberry Field Pancake House in Kerry on one of our very successful Mini Runs. Over the years the Mini Club of Ireland has visited and sampled The Strawberry Field Legendary Pancakes and we decided to present the owner Peter with a plaque to commorate our great partnership. You won’t be disappointed if you visit his Pancake House http://www.pancakecottage.com/ … Read entire article »

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M.C.O.I Supports F.A.C.T Charity :

Alex Treacy handing over the cheque of €519 to Gary Whyte of F.A.C.T Ballincollig Family Resource Centre which was the proceeds of the Table Quiz held by the Mini Club of Ireland on the 16th of February in the Oriel Hotel Ballincollig in Cork. This is a great charity that provides a Little Dreams Pre-School, Adult Education Service, Adult Literacy, Drug Prevention Project and Counselling Service. … Read entire article »

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radicalscooter.ie donate a MINI for our Party

The team at radicalscooter.ie heard all about our party coming on January 23rd, 2010 at the Ambassador Hotel, and they decided to chip in to support our club, and our charity. They’ve not only bought a fist full of tickets for the event, but they’ve donated a very cool MINI car for kids. … Read entire article »

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A Christmas Card from MINI AG to all of us

The wonderful people at MINI AG in Germany went to a serious amount of trouble and effort to help us out for MINI United.   With their guideance, we managed to secure a place at the club arena at MINI United for our club – no small feat, as there were only 20 stands being allocated for the entire world,  and we ended up with one. The team responsible there are Helen and Thomas, and just to show you the type of people they are, they sent us a Christmas Card in the post wishing the club the very best for Christmas and the New Year,  so we just had to scan it in for everyone to see! … Read entire article »

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