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Essential Driver Training: your complete guide to Ireland's mandatory 12-lesson programme.
Your car passed the NCT in April. Grand. It's now October, the temperatures have dropped, and that same car is quietly failing in four different ways you haven't noticed yet. Winter in Ireland doesn't just make driving...
The salesperson was lovely. The test drive was grand. You did not, however, sit down and total up what year one of owning that car was actually going to cost you. Almost nobody does. The sticker price is just the...
Your kid just got their learner permit. Brilliant. Now comes the question nobody warned you about at the post office counter: do you add them to your own policy, or do they get their own? It sounds like a simple admin...
Your learner permit costs €35. Grand, you think. How bad can it be? Very bad, as it turns out. Very, very bad. The full cost of learning to drive in Ireland is one of those things nobody sits you down and explains. You...
Your renewal notice landed on the mat and you stared at it for a solid ten seconds. Same car. Same address. Same clean licence. Higher number. You are not imagining it. Car insurance in Ireland has been climbing...
Your examiner has seen every nervous glance, every death-grip on the wheel. What they're seeing more of lately is something different: learners failing not on the classic stuff, but on hazards that barely existed five...
Your teenager just got their learner permit. Brilliant. Now comes the part nobody puts in the congratulations card: they are, statistically, the most likely person on your road to be involved in a serious crash. That is...
Your motor tax is due. Your insurance renewal landed in the post. And you just filled a tank that cost you nearly ninety euro. Welcome to September. It happens every year with the reliability of a bad weather forecast....
Your driving test is booked. You've done your EDT lessons. You've practiced the hill start until it's muscle memory. And your insurance? Grand, you sorted that months ago. Except maybe you didn't sort it as well as you...
Your first insurance quote lands and you nearly need to sit down. Four figures. Sometimes five. And somewhere in the small print, nobody mentions that how seriously you took your EDT lessons could actually influence...
You pull up to a public charger somewhere outside Portlaoise. The screen is black. The cable won't lock. There's a sticker on the unit that says "Out of Service" and underneath it, in biro, someone has written...
You found a 2019 Nissan Leaf with 65,000km on the clock for €14,500. Seems grand. But there's something the seller probably hasn't told you about what's happening to battery supply right now. The used EV market in...
You showed up to buy your first car expecting a battered 2012 Volkswagen Polo for €4,500. The market had other ideas. The entry-level used petrol car hasn't disappeared, but it's getting squeezed from every direction....
Twelve lessons. That's the deal. Complete them with an RSA-approved driving instructor, get your logbook stamped and uploaded to MyEDT, and you're cleared to sit the Irish driving test. Skip one and the test centre...
Your first quote comes in and you read it twice. Then a third time. Then you ring your mam to confirm you haven't lost the plot. You haven't. That number is real, and yes, it's for a 2012 Nissan Micra. Welcome to young...
Before 2011, learning to drive in Ireland was a loose arrangement. You got your learner permit, convinced someone with a full licence to sit beside you, and figured it out. Some people figured it out well. A lot of...
Teaching someone to drive is one of those jobs that sounds easy until you think about it for more than ten seconds. You're sitting in a passenger seat with no controls while a nervous stranger tries to merge onto a dual...