{"id":10857,"date":"2015-03-25T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2015-03-26T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T12:17:22","slug":"clare-champion-man-is-new-chairman-irish-motoring-writers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/clare-champion-man-is-new-chairman-irish-motoring-writers-association\/10857","title":{"rendered":"Clare Champion man is new chairman Irish Motoring Writers Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Galvin, Motoring Editor and MD of the Clare\u00a0Champion, is the new Chairman of the Irish Motoring Writers Association,\u00a0following the AGM of the Association on Monday 23 March, 2015.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10859 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/J-Galvin-IMWA.jpg\" alt=\"J-Galvin---IMWA\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" \/>He succeeds Austin Shinnors, of Bruff, Co Limerick, motoring correspondent of the Veterinary Ireland Journal since the\u00a01970s.<\/p>\n<p>The other executive positions of the IMWA are now held by David\u00a0Walshe (vice chair), motoring correspondent of EM &#8211; The\u00a0Newspaper of\u00a0ESB, Forum Newspaper (Meath) and owner of\u00a0www.NetACar.ie;\u00a0Bernard Potter (secretary), editor of the SIMI&#8217;s Irish\u00a0Motor Management and\u00a0motoring correspondent in Irish Farmer\u2019s Monthly; and Michael Moroney\u00a0(Treasurer), motoring\u00a0editor of the Irish Farmer&#8217;s Journal.<\/p>\n<p>New Chairman of the IMWA Van Jury<br \/>\nPadraic Deane of this parish takes over as the Chairman of the Van Jury of the IMWA for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 39th AGM of the IMWA, which is the owner and organiser of\u00a0the Irish Car of the Year and Irish Van of the Year\u00a0awards, sponsored\u00a0for decades by Continental Tyres Ireland or its subsidiary Semperit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Galvin, Motoring Editor and MD of the Clare\u00a0Champion, is the new Chairman of the Irish Motoring Writers Association,\u00a0following the AGM of the Association on Monday 23 March, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[654,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irish-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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