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April 2024
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safety appeal
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older drivers
MEPs reject mandatory health checks for driving licence renewals
2 Mar
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Road Safety
19,000 fines issued last year for drivers using phones behind the wheel
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Running out of Road
Parking driving you crazy? It might be because cars are expanding by half a centimetre a year
Campaigners say legislation is urgently needed to halt the trend for ever wider cars.
The average width of Irish new cars exceeds the EU average.
Several SUVs on the market are now over 2 metres wide.
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30 Jan
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Low temperature warning in effect as -5 degrees expected in some parts
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Last year
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Driving
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49
L and Back
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28 Dec 2023
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slow down
Gardaà detect motorist driving 139km/h in an 80km/h zone on National Slow Down Day
22 Dec 2023
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30
THE MORNING LEAD
Motorway and national road lights removed to save energy
11 Dec 2023
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135
On The Road
Varadkar not in favour of strict cut-off ages and restrictions for older drivers
18 Nov 2023
44.1k
74
Motorways
TD criticises TII after it plans to reserve motorway lay-bys for lorries only
10 Nov 2023
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35
Speeding
No deadline in place for lowering of speed limits, says McEntee
8 Sep 2023
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RSA
Driving instructor who said 'who's your daddy' 15 times to student among complaints to RSA
6 Jun 2023
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61
Beep beep
75 additional driver testers to be recruited to deal with backlog
11 Apr 2023
11.0k
12
Road Safety
745 people arrested for driving under the influence over the last month
6 Jan 2023
13.1k
20
All time
Penalty Points
Over 543,000 people had points on their licences this year - a county-by-county breakdown
31 Dec 2022
24.5k
26
Courts
Conor McGregor dangerous driving case expected to conclude in January
24 Nov 2022
27.1k
Motor insurance
Motor insurance premiums fell by 17% between 2017 and 2021
15 Nov 2022
9.7k
35
Speeding
More than 1,000 drivers caught speeding on Irish roads over the weekend
1 Aug 2022
40.7k
63
Road Safety
Almost one in four motorists check their phone notifications while driving
7 Jul 2022
8.9k
35
Road Safety
182 arrests over Bank Holiday weekend for driving under influence of drugs or alcohol
10 Jun 2022
13.6k
14
FACTCHECK
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2 Mar 2022
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15
Penalty Points
Over 540,000 people had points on their licences this year - a county-by-county breakdown
26 Dec 2021
29.9k
25
Punishment
Manchester United’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka banned from driving
20 Dec 2021
12.2k
5
speed limits
Transport Minister launches speed limit appeals procedure and Shared Space signs
3 Dec 2021
29.8k
41
High Court
New law and 'admin solutions' needed before asylum seekers can get driving licences, dept says
9 Nov 2021
16.8k
14
Road Safety
Gardaà catch 316 motorists speeding during first eleven hours of National Slow Down Day
Updated 21 Oct 2021
50.8k
100
Road Safety
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5 Oct 2021
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Driving
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Updated 17 Sep 2021
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129
pandemic
Ten months added to expiry date on driving licences
2 Jul 2021
65.7k
15
Drivers
Government confirms further extension to expiry dates of driving licences
24 Feb 2021
61.3k
27
Donegal
Man charged after dangerous driving incident in Donegal
25 Jan 2021
25.2k
BACKLOG
RSA confirms plans to allow you sit your car theory test online within a 'number of months'
24 Jan 2021
57.6k
30
Brexit
Agreement signed to allow continued exchange of UK driving licence for people living in Ireland
31 Dec 2020
40.8k
33
On The Road
Did you sit your driving test this year? Here are the pass rates for each RSA test centre for 2020
29 Dec 2020
69.8k
23
Penalty Points
More than 500,000 people had points on their licences this year - here's a county-by-county breakdown
26 Dec 2020
40.2k
31
Brexit
Have a UK driving licence but live in Ireland? It won't be valid from 1 January
20 Dec 2020
39.5k
52
Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court
Mother who drove on footpath after teenagers who attacked her daughter gets suspended sentence
15 Dec 2020
49.9k
Driving
Here's how the RSA's driving services and NCT services are affected under Level 5
21 Oct 2020
56.3k
30
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