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VISUAL ARTS:THE TITLE OF Sean Lynch’s show at Kevin Kavanagh, DeLorean: Progress Report, is nicely ironic, given that the one factor notably absent in the whole DeLorean debacle was progress and there certainly can’t be any now. Rather the progress report relates to Lynch’s own DeLorean project, now well under way as we can see from the exhibition, with much done and much more to do.

John De Lorean died in 2005. He is forever remembered in Ireland for the sports car (nominally the DMC12 but more popularly called simply the DeLorean) he devised and the factory he set up to build it, with much official support, in Dunmurry, close to Belfast. DeLorean was a talented engineer and a flamboyant, high profile executive in the American automotive industry. His innovative sports car, styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro, attracted enormous support from government (something like £100 million), with components from several leading European car manufacturers.