IE THE ECHO LIVE NEWS EOIN ENGLISH 16/07/2021. Cllr. Fergal Dennehy, deputising for the Lord Mayor of Cork, presenting a framed copy of the front page of the Evening Echo from July 1981 featuring photographs of the record breaking achievement to Mel Nolan at the Carrigrohane (Straight) Road, Cork, with the National Aluminium Turbo Honda Special on the 40th. anniversary of breaking the Irish Landspeed Record and the World 1,000cc. Flying Mile Record on the same day. Picture Denis Minihane.