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Essential Driver Training: your complete guide to Ireland's mandatory 12-lesson programme.
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...