How one Wicklow man and his Volkswagen Beetle helped rescue business records as firms fell during recession

Some folk are reluctant to throw stuff away.

The art of de-cluttering evades them.

To them, accumulating material comes naturally, as they instinctively seek to keep track of where they have been and what they have been up to.

How, they reason, can we go forward without knowing where we come from, as they cherish souvenirs from travels long since undertaken along with bills long since paid, and diaries long since written up and squirrelled away.