It was on English plates, wtf?

Atlantic Dawn

"They escaped in a red car , believed to be a
Volkswagen Golf with English registration plates."

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/armed-raiders-steal-cash-from-meath-post-office-522511.html

How did they know it was English plates? UK plates would be possible to tell but how would you tell it was English? Is it lazy jounalism or lazy Garda Press Office?

m.j.w

you can tell my the letters on the plate if its from england scotland or wales

MugMugs

UK exlcuding NI plates work like this

AA 11 XYZ

AA is the local DVLA office

11 Should be 11 or 61 variant on what part of the year it has been registered ( a money spinner if you ask me )

XYZ is the unique index to that vehicle

Had they got the Registration plates and identified that the first two letters of the REG were for "England" then they would be correct.

Nonetheless, Who Cares ? It's a rag of a site.

corktina

actually easier than that..Welsh cars all start with C and scots ones with S

_Kaiser_

More likely it's that witnesses or cctv showed the car as having yellow (ie: English) plates than any sort of knowledge beyond that

Could have been a yellow reg DL or CN for all we know

Berty

Everybody knows that middle aged people say English for EVERYBODY across the Irish Sea.

Solair

I bet they'd be exactly he same kind of people who would be deeply offended if anyone mistakenly confused the Republic of Ireland and the UK or Northern Ireland.

If you're referring to the large island to the east of us, it is Britain, or if you want to include the small islands off its coast, Great Britain.

Calling Scotland or Wales "England" is pretty dumb and for an Irish person to do it, given our sensitivities to such issues, is just really rubbing salt in the wound of any Scotsman / Scotswoman or Welsh person.

That being said, I remember someone describing a car as having "English plates" and it turned out to actually be French. It even had a French flag stuck on the back window!!!

Big Nasty

Pedantic Pat is Pedantic

V Eight

Beer Baron wrote: »

Everybody knows that middle aged people say English for EVERYBODY across the Irish Sea.

For the plates........ Yellow plate is an English Plate at a glance.... a second look might establish it's from the North and not from across the water - that's as much thought as most people would give.........I think most middle aged people do refer to everybody across the sea as English........unless they follow Rugby.

Atlantic Dawn

They should simply call them UK plates, saves any confusion.

Testament1

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

They should simply call them UK plates, saves any confusion.

Or we could just not get upset over simple little things like this