Driving slowly but never let the build up of traffic go

Also the muppets that try overtake a car in 5th or 6th gear at 50-60 Kmh and panic when it takes half an hour to try get past.

Your inconvenience saves them €0.02 on fuel!

Why don't you pull over for 5 mins. Chillax. Then when you get driving again the queue will be gone.

Traffic complaining about traffic...ironic.

Nope it's not illegal. Its only illegal on motorways not on national roads. That does not mean you should drive in it all the time. You only drive in it when you are slower than the traffic behind and you can drive in the hard shoulder safely to let them by. That is the only time you should drive in it.

This happens all the time and it is both an annoyance and presents a danger when people try to overtake them.

It's my experience that this is mostly elderly drivers who probably got their license on one of the amnesty schemes.

I have no problem with slow drivers of they pull in when safe to do so.

Another thing that annoys me is SUV drivers who trundle along at 70km/h because they bought a stupid vehicle that drinks fuel at a 100km/h and they can't afford to run them, idiots.

Hi,

From the Rules of the Road:-

If a driver is unable to ascertain if it is safe to drive in or even partly in the hard shoulder then they they are poor and also very inconsiderate drivers

It is not illegal to move over to allow faster traffic to overtake.

However it is an offence to needlessly cause an obstruction.

Some day, when not busy, I may drop a dashcam clip into a Garda station and ask that they charge the driver of the car with obstruction. See what happens

If it's a 100 limit is there not more than one lane.

70 isn't a fuel efficient speed either, it's more like 56-60 drag increases massively after that. If saving fuel in a 3 tonne, vehicle with a truck engine and the aero dynamics of a brick. Seems unlikely.

sections of the N59 probably qualify

I'll take that as a no they don't. But somebody does....

Definitely, recently had the pleasure of spending 20 mins behind someone on there who was driving with their rear fogs on, never going over 70kph but still braking down to 50 for even the slightest bend. Would drive you insane!

I'm not going to be looking to see their face while overtaking on a bend, that would be reckless.

Driving at an unreasonably slow speed is an offense. It also provokes reasonable people attempt dangerous overtaking manoeuvres. It's an obligation to keep with the flow of traffic and not impede it.

Very few people will be prosecuted for driving to slow and without due attention to other road users - but more should be.

while it is understandably frustrating, people attempting dangerous overtaking manoeuvres have no excuse, regardless of the gobshite holding up traffic. I tend to blame the assh0le(s) one or two cars behind who don't take a safe overtaking opportunity when it arises or keep their car glued to the car at the head of the queue so that no one behind them can safely overtake

Edit: the only instance I know of where a slow driver was prosecuted related to a farmer in Mayo who held up traffic on the outskirts of Westport. Unfortunately for him, the queue included a squad car. There's a link to a newspaper report about it somewhere on boards

It's quite something, to decide dangerous overtaking is your ONLY option. Perhaps people have become complacent with bad habits. Because it's NOT the only option.

The "lads on the boards who drive the roads every day" suggested it.

There is no excuse for dangerous overtaking, but anyone who holds up a queue of traffic is very inconsiderate and probably ignorant, irrespective of whether they are driving a car or a tractor.

I believe there is a law against it in France - if there are three (or maybe five) vehicles held up behind you, you have to pull in at the first safe opportunity to let them pass.

Does it actually say "at the speed limit"

Is the test not mostly around towns, urban areas. Is your experience people hit 60kmh a lot in the test?

I can't see someone doing 50 in 60 having a problem in the driving test.

What any of that has to do with someone doing 70 in 80 I have no idea.