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When Paddy Murray parted his curtains in Kildimo, Miltown Malbay on Monday, March 1, his view was clearer than it had been for 30 years. He wasn’t sure if he liked what he saw, though. But Paddy knew that he was bound to be hit with a withdrawal symptom or two.“When I got up on the Monday, looked out and she wasn’t there…” he muses, his voice trailing off.  “That’s the first thing I’d do at 8 o’clock. Put on the clothes, go out and turn on the key. She’d be running away then and I’d sit into her at 9 o’clock and up the road. But when you’d look out and she’s not there, it’s a big change. The fact that she was there for 30 years, between schools and service, t’was a long time. It was part of me,” he reflects.Paddy had developed such a deep bond with his bus, he treated her like a friend. When he …

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