If Annie wanted to go out for the day, and stay late for a drink, she would have needed to walk, or take a lift, or both. Perhaps because of this lack of transport in Ireland, if you see someone you know even slightly out and about without a car, it’s common practice to offer them a lift, and for them to accept. Certainly in the eighties and nineties, when we still thought that non-sectarian murders didn’t really happen, it was completely normal.
