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Sat 03 Mar 2003Red card for Mother's Day
Mothering Sunday is irrelevant. It is merely a cash cow for restaurants and flower sellers, writes Kathryn Holmquist
One Mother's Day I was walking with the children on Killiney Hill near the quarry when a man came speeding down the hill, having lost control of the wheelchair he was pushing. Clinging to her wheeled seat, was an elderly and infirm woman, her eyes wide open in a startled posture of adrenalin overload. She didn't even have a seat-belt.
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