Registration Plates!

I think they'll pass the NCT without the hyphens.

I remember about 10 years ago there was someone on my street with a 2003 Polo that didn't have the county name in Irish on the plate, but looked standard enough otherwise. Except for about a week or two every year when the plate was swapped out for a compliant one!

Well it's Ireland after all. Conformity is not in our genes, and as in so many facets of life here, there is probably ambiguity/indifference regarding enforcement of the law pertaining to license plate regulation. Is it the Garda or the Revenue who are supposed to oversee these matters?

Cork has 18 wardens and Galway 12.

Other local authorities employ wardens mostly operating in the larger towns.

While AGS enforcement numbers are down they still issued 283,516 fines last year.

It would be an easy catch for wardens and AGS could just add it to their list.

Or we can continue as we are.

https://www.thejournal.ie/traffic-offence-fines-decrease-6476843-Sep2024/

OP. The regulations specifically refer to plates with dashes between the numbers and letters applying to vehicles registered before 2012. Any after that cannot have any other markings, presumably because there is an extra number involved in the year.

Whether it’s enforced or not is a separate issue.

Bastids wil be dropping the spaces next, and we'll be looking at

171D124738

funny was just discussing this with my daughter who's learning to drive as we pulled in behind a girl racer, A4 modded,

had a dark non reflective yellow and the smallest black print i've ever seen, in bumper to bumper traffic and right behind her

i could just about make out the year and county but some of the numbers struggled a bit, i take it the M50 toll cameras havent a hope to see it? do they need to swop these over then for NCT?

The new white plates with the year, were introduced in 1987.

In 1990 they introduced the blue stripe with the EU flag on it, some Irish language 'enthusiast' , kicked up a fuss about us losing our identity in Europe, and they introduced the county in Irish on the top to shut her up.

Or so is my recollection.

Saw it already! ie., 12 L M1234

I mean, who would do that to lovely leitrim?