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RSA campaigns, accident statistics, and tips for staying safe on Irish roads.
You passed your test. Possibly years ago. Maybe decades. And somewhere between that first solo drive and this morning's commute, a few things quietly fell away. The RSA's own research puts a number on it: 79% of Irish...
Someone is under a car near you right now. Not fixing it. Nicking the catalytic converter off it. Takes about four minutes with the right tools. Probably happens before you've finished your breakfast. Car part theft has...
You squint at an oncoming headlight and it blooms into a starburst. The road signs blur at the edges. You tell yourself it's just the rain on the windscreen. It isn't. Driving at night with astigmatism or cataracts is...
Your pharmacist handed you a little white bag, you said thanks, and you drove home. Nobody mentioned the part about your reaction time being roughly equivalent to someone a few drinks in. That's the reality for a...
Your car passed the NCT for years without drama. Same car. Same driver. Suddenly it's coming back with a fail notice and a list of items your mechanic swears were grand six months ago. You're not imagining it. Something...
You glance down for two seconds. The camera above you sees it before you've even looked back up. That's not a future scenario. It's Tuesday morning on the E40 motorway in Belgium. AI-powered phone detection cameras are...
The deer doesn't care that you're running late. It steps out of the treeline on the N72 outside Killarney at 6:47pm on a Tuesday in October, and you have about half a second to make a decision that matters. That's not a...
A cyclist pulls away from the lights on the North Quays. A pedestrian steps out at a zebra crossing on Grafton Street. A child on a scooter appears from behind a parked van on a housing estate road. These moments happen...
You're driving a familiar road at night, nothing complicated, and then a car comes the other way and you're essentially staring into two small suns. You blink, squint, and spend the next four seconds navigating by...
The evening commute that was fine last week is now a different road entirely. Same route. Same car. Half the visibility. Every October, Irish roads get darker almost overnight and Irish driving habits stay exactly the...
You're driving a road you've driven a thousand times. Same bends, same hedges, same pothole near the crossroads. The sign used to say 80. Now it says 60. And you're wondering if anyone's actually serious about this....
You're doing 80km/h on the Naas Road and your eyes just snagged on a massive mural covering a roadside hoarding. You looked. You know you looked. That half-second glance is exactly what researchers and road safety...
You hear nothing. That's the point. And on a badly lit road outside Athlone at half nine on a November evening, "you hear nothing" is exactly the problem. Electric vehicles are selling fast in Ireland. The...
Your car passed its last NCT. Grand. That was eighteen months ago, and since then it's done another 22,000 kilometres through potholes the size of small parishes. Irish drivers are keeping their cars longer than at any...
Eight forty-five on a Tuesday morning. A 2019 Volkswagen Touareg mounts the kerb outside a primary school in Tallaght. A child steps off it two seconds earlier. Nobody is hurt. Nobody reports it. That's the problem. The...
Your satnav told you to turn left. You turned left. Now you're axle-deep in a boreen outside Strokestown wondering if Google Maps has ever actually been to Roscommon. This is not a fringe experience. Navigation apps...
Your man traded in his 2008 Nissan Almera for a brand new crossover last spring. Adaptive cruise control, lane-keep assist, automatic emergency braking. Three months later, he nearly wrote it off because the car braked...
Someone sliced through the charging cable at a public ESB eCars unit last winter, and the next three drivers who showed up had no idea until they were already parked, plugged in, and confused. That's the shape of this...
You left Galway at half four. It's fully dark by five. The sat-nav says 47km to your destination. The battery says 51km remaining. Outside it's 3°C and raining sideways. This is where EV range anxiety stops being a...
You've booked the ferry, downloaded the map, and told yourself you'll figure out the vignette situation when you get there. Grand. But if you're pointing a car toward a region with an active travel advisory, a loose...
The light turns green. Your foot finds the floor. You've done it a thousand times and nothing bad has happened yet. That word "yet" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Junction accidents have been creeping up...
Your fuel bill is giving you palpitations, the kids are already asking if we're nearly there yet, and the summer road trip is still six weeks away. Fine. But while you've been refreshing petrol price apps, your car has...
A knee-high robot trundles up to a parked EV on a Dublin side street, plugs itself in, and waddles off to the next car. Science fiction? It's already happening in Germany and the Netherlands. Ireland's turn is closer...
Your wipers are on full. The car in front has vanished into spray. You're doing 110km/h because everyone else is, and slowing down feels like admitting defeat. This is the moment most Irish motorway incidents begin, not...
You're sitting in traffic on the M50, the fuel gauge is lower than you'd like, and your brain is quietly doing the maths on whether you can stretch it to the cheaper station in Tallaght. That calculation, running in the...
Your child has outgrown their infant carrier. Grand. So you grab the next seat up, strap it in, and off you go. Simple. Except it isn't, and a quick look at what Irish roads actually see every day confirms that. Child...
The road looks fine. Dry, even. Then your back end goes and your stomach is somewhere near the headliner. That's black ice. It doesn't care about your confidence, your SUV, or your 20 years behind the wheel. Winter in...
Your Nissan Leaf is at 8% on the M7, the next charger is 34km away, and the one you planned to use is out of order. Again. This is not an edge case. This is Tuesday for a growing number of Irish EV drivers, and the gap...
Your phone slides off the windscreen on the Naas Road doing 100km/h. You grab for it. The car ahead brakes. You already know how this story ends. Navigation apps have quietly become as standard as a seatbelt for Irish...