Importing from the UK - definitive guide (Q and A)

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123495641#Comment_123495641

There isn’t.

RCSATELLITES

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123495436#Comment_123495436

There is no conditions to merit him keeping it on polish plates. He is just getting away with it for the time being. Polish car, polish person probably polish licence. He just has to say holiday if he gets stopped.

It's only really when you are say Irish and driving a English reg car. That it would look suspicious and further investigation would occur.

If you were English with English licence, driving an English registered car then 90% of the time you would get away with it. If you said you are just visiting or work in the UK.

wassie

There's a good few Ukrainian reg cars that I see that have been here for a couple few years now. If they are ever in an accident involving a local car, that's when things get messy (for both parties).

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) useage by the Garda will begin to make this harder for people to get away with this in the future.

Damien360

loads of Romanian and Polish plate cars in Newbridge for many years and not touched. Some Irish lads have Romanian reg cars as the car tax and insurance is pittance. Usually a decent car where the VRT and road tax would be silly money.