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Everything you need to know about learning to drive in Ireland — learner permits, test prep, and tips for new drivers.
The Learner Driver's Guide to Understanding Fuel Grades and EV Charging Speeds You pull up to your first solo fill at a petrol station. Three nozzles. Two grades. A diesel pump that's a different colour entirely. Your...
You know the driver. We all know the driver. Straddling two lanes on the M50, floating gently across the white lines like they are suggestions rather than rules, completely oblivious to the quiet rage building in every...
Picture this. November. A back road in Roscommon. It has been raining since Tuesday (it is now Friday). You come into a bend a touch too fast, the back end steps out, and suddenly you are a passenger in your own car....
The clutch is the enemy. Ask anyone who's stalled at a busy junction in Galway while a bus queue watches. Ask anyone who's rolled backwards on a hill start in Cork with a van two inches from their bumper. The clutch is...
Before you can learn to drive in Ireland, you need a learner permit. Before you can get a learner permit, you need a small mountain of paperwork. This is Ireland. Paperwork is how we show love. The permit is your legal...
You have done the twelve lessons. You can reverse around a corner without mounting the kerb. You parallel park like someone who has been doing it for years. And yet here you are, at three in the morning, staring at the...
So you're coming to Ireland. Good choice. The scenery is spectacular, the people are sound, and the roads will terrify you. Not because they're dangerous. Because they're narrow, they're on the wrong side (from your...
Look inside a manual car and you'll see three pedals and a gear stick. Look inside an automatic and there are two pedals and a selector that says P, R, N, D. That's it. No clutch. No gear lever. You put it in Drive,...