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Opinion, long reads, and the interesting side of Irish motoring.
Open your renewal letter. Take a breath. Swear quietly. This is a yearly ritual for Irish drivers, and it's getting worse again. For a while there, things were improving. Premiums fell between 2018 and 2022, partly...
Nobody loves driving at night. New drivers dread it. Experienced drivers tolerate it. And anyone who says they actually prefer it is either lying or hasn't done the M7 at midnight in November rain. The reality is...
Nobody looks forward to the driving test. It sits in your calendar like a dentist appointment with consequences. You will be nervous. That is normal. Everyone is nervous. The person testing you expects you to be...
Dublin to Galway. Two and a half hours on a good day. Three if there's a caravan doing fifty on the M6. And somewhere around Moate, the back seat erupts. "Are we there yet?" "She's touching my side."...
You're landing in Shannon. You've hired a car online. You've packed the sun cream (optimist). One small detail you might want to sort before you collect the keys: which side of the road do the Irish drive on? The left....
A road sign has one job. Tell you something useful. The distance to the next town. The speed limit. Which direction the road bends. Simple stuff. Ireland's road signs try their best. They really do. But somewhere...
In Ireland, we drive on the left. We know this. It's normal to us. It is also, statistically speaking, the minority position. About 65% of the world's countries drive on the right. We're in the smaller camp, along with...
Here's a thing nobody tells you about the driving test. The skills aren't the hard part. By the time your test date arrives, you've probably done dozens of lessons. You can manage a roundabout. You can parallel park...
Most driving in Ireland is a chore. The M50 at half five. The school run in the rain. A forty-minute crawl through roadworks for the privilege of reaching a Supermac's. But then there's the other kind. The kind where...
Here is a number that should make you feel something: 640. That was the death toll on Irish roads in 1972. Six hundred and forty people. In a country of three million. By the time the European Transport Safety Council...