Meanwhile on the Roads...

https://www.thejournal.ie/gardai-motor-insurance-app-6388338-May2024/

Under the new system, which was introduced in January, frontline gardaí have access to the information details of more than three million vehicles.

Following its introduction at the start of the year, the new system has led to the seizure of 7,307 vehicles. Some 1,840 vehicles were seized last month relating to no insurance.

I was dropping the daughter to an activity earlier in the week and the Guards had pulled a fairly high end looking Beemer in, nee-naw lights flashing. I was on the way back 5-10 minutes later by which time a tow-truck had rocked up. I was wondering if this was a no insurance case as it probably wouldn't get hauled off for speeding/being a run of the mill bell-end alone, nor was it blocking the thoroughfare.

National Highways has released videos, filmed through the window of an unmarked lorry cab by Warwickshire Police

A woman pictured driving a light blue Nissan while applying make-up.

A woman pictured on her phone and looking at a laptop while she attempts to drive a black Audi 😮

A man pictured eating chips and sipping a drink from McDonald's with no hands on the steering wheel as he tries to control a grey van on a busy road

…and this is what got lifted. Fscker caught for the 4th time THIS YEAR with no insurance. If it wouldn't be for the environmental impact they should strap him to a chair and force him to watch that car be crushed

Some good news, if you can call it that:

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/meath/news/almost-30-motorists-caught-driving-in-meath-without-insurance-in-just-seven-days/a1476554631.html

At the lights in Dundrum village last night, Garda car passes through. The driver of the car following directly behind the Garda car as the phone in hand typing away. This morning on the way into the office, Garda roll through an amber light (they could/should have stopped) and were followed by another car, at which time it was definitely red. Even Garda "presence" does nothing to stop this behaviour. Another lad in a merc is stuck in the middle of the junction of Carysfort and Convent road (coming from Convent turning up Carysfort). His light was red but he hadn't noticed as he was looking at his phone, looks up to cars trying to squeeze past him.. decides to move once the pedestrian lights are green and the school traffic warden is standing in the middle of the crossing with all the school kids crossing.

I get a certain level of satisfaction stopping for the Lollipop lady and then watching the driver behind me in my rear view mirror huffing/puffing with frustration!

Our local crossing had to have a second (male) volunteer in hi-vis to visibly stand on footpath as support to the lollipop person on road. Prior, there were motorists bamboozling through, shouting abuse in front of kids, etc.

This made national headlines in 2022. Photo: a car’s dashcam recorded a car driving straight through the crossing while the warden was in the centre of the road

There is some absolutely cracking content in this thread

Problem is that whether it someone in a car exercising his right to travel without the need for tax, insurance or simply obeying the rules of the road, or the lads who are trying to avoid their property speculation debts, they are always trying to have others pick up the tab for their sh!tfcukery.