New Irish Driving License

Dr Expired · 29-02-2012 07:36PM #1

Great to see the back of our current embarrassing pink cardboard license and its to be replaced with a 'cool' new credit sized model.
Can't find link or picture but i'm sure somebody will soon enough.

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:39PM

Is it finally out?

I'd actually like one as I am sick of carrying around that big huge pink thing!

I know the French have it too, but I think they've phased / are phasing it out too. (Theirs is even worse, it's usually not laminated and the photo is kind of stapled on hehe)

Napper Hawkins · 29-02-2012 07:39PM

Dr Expired wrote: »

Great to see the back of our current embarrassing pink cardboard license and its to be replaced with a 'cool' new credit sized model.
Can't find link or picture but i'm sure somebody will soon enough.

Do people give a toss about the colour of their driving license?

Sindri · 29-02-2012 07:40PM

My driving licence is green.

I better not have to get a new one now.

Sarn · 29-02-2012 07:40PM

It's not the colour that's the problem, it's the size of the thing.

Hande hoche! · 29-02-2012 07:41PM

I assume most places will still refuse it as proof of age.

El Weirdo · 29-02-2012 07:41PM

This is quite possibly the most important development of the year so far.

starbelgrade · 29-02-2012 07:42PM

Sarn wrote: »

It's not the colour that's the problem, it's the size of the thing.

It's grand. Just fold it & stick it somewhere in the glove box.

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:42PM

readmylips wrote: »

microchipped with all your sins and all. The gardai will probably have the necessary swipe equipment to read them by 2018...given some stations dont even have broadband !!!

Ah now, they'll be getting broadband in 2027. They don't even have dial up at the moment.

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:43PM

That's all fine and well if you've only got the one car!

I have to swap cars now and then, so I end up having to keep it on me.

readmylips · 29-02-2012 07:43PM

microchipped with all your sins and all. The gardai will probably have the necessary swipe equipment to read them by 2018...given some stations dont even have broadband !!!

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:44PM

How the **** did that happen? My reply to post #11 went before the post!
(Post #9)

Dr Expired · 29-02-2012 07:44PM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Do people give a toss about the colour of their driving license?

Maybe the majority don't care about the colour but its the size and quality of the current one that won't be missed by me anyway.

Agricola · 29-02-2012 07:44PM

A license that will actually fit in a wallet comfortably. I think Ireland is on the road to recovery now.

readmylips · 29-02-2012 07:45PM

faster than broadband solair !!!

Dostoevsky · 29-02-2012 07:46PM

As long as they don't tell me that I can't have my licence in Irish anymore and force me to accept the English language version I couldn't care less what colour it is.

I had enough shít with those incompetent local authority clowns throughout the years when they said "they didn't have the technology for putting fadaí on Irish names". Arrogant dickheads spending our taxes buying equipment that is incapable of the tiny technical duty of facilitating both languages.

/end rant.

vicwatson · 29-02-2012 07:46PM

Cue Civil Rights complaints about some irrelevant to life data being stored on the card !

Napper Hawkins · 29-02-2012 07:49PM

Dr Expired wrote: »

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Do people give a toss about the colour of their driving license?

Maybe the majority don't care about the colour but its the size and quality of the current one that won't be missed by me anyway.

Fair enough, mine stays in the car mainly so the size and shape was never an issue.

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:50PM

The French one is identical driving%20reg2.jpg

It's a crazy document though. It's not usually laminated and it has no expiry date!

cosanostra · 29-02-2012 07:52PM

My license is in bits from my days of having to carry it as a form of id to get into clubs

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:53PM

readmylips wrote: »

faster than broadband solair !!!

Yeah, my broadband's so fast that my posts actually appear BEFORE I write them. Take that UPC!! Fibre power... so 2011. Subspace communications via a wormhole is much better.

dillo2k10 · 29-02-2012 07:53PM

http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/taoiseach-announces-new-hi-tech-driving-licences-0021580-1

Its about time.

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:55PM

Seems France is also introducing it in 2013.

It stems from an EU directive that requires states to adopt a secure, harmonised system as there are 110 different versions in use at present!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_driving_licence#New_European_driving_licence_as_from_2013

It's not exactly rushed :

Implementation

The directive stipulates that members states should adopt laws implementing the directive no later than 19 January 2011. Those laws should take effect in all EU members states on 19 January 2013. All licences issued before that date will become invalid by 2033.

Ellis Dee · 29-02-2012 07:57PM

This is what a Finnish one looks like. Note the expiry date - the person's 70th birthday. No need to renew it until then, unless a doctor sounds an alert.:):)

My daughter, who lives in Dublin, uses one like that.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iI0OkO4qfb4/TpdHo3_WhJI/AAAAAAAABD0/3_5MkI26hsw/s1600/Ajokortti2a.jpg

readmylips · 29-02-2012 07:57PM

now all we have to do to get one is register and pay €100

Solair · 29-02-2012 07:58PM

readmylips wrote: »

now all we have to do to get one is register and pay €100

+ VAT @ 23% and a photo processing charge

+ 9.99 Postage and Packaging.

dr.bollocko · 29-02-2012 07:59PM

We should have a drinking license. With penalty points. Without it you can't get served in a bar. Set off flares outside supermacs, that's three points. Punch someone in a drunken fight. 3 points. Puking in the street. 1 point. etc. You only get 12.
You lose em enjoy your fruit based non-alcoholic beverage.

readmylips · 29-02-2012 08:00PM

dont forget the INK charge (and ya know how expensive that stuff is !) plus p& P !!

Eric Cartman · 29-02-2012 08:00PM

i was all for it until the smart card part. I think ill keep my paper licence, the less the lads in blue know the better

MickySticks · 29-02-2012 08:01PM

Dostoevsky wrote: »

As long as they don't tell me that I can't have my licence in Irish anymore and force me to accept the English language version I couldn't care less what colour it is.

I had enough shít with those incompetent local authority clowns throughout the years when they said "they didn't have the technology for putting fadaí on Irish names". Arrogant dickheads spending our taxes buying equipment that is incapable of the tiny technical duty of facilitating both languages.

/end rant.

Clearly you speak English so why the fuck do you want it in Irish as well? Jesus Christ you've little to be complaining about.

/end rant.

dvpower · 29-02-2012 08:01PM

Solair wrote: »

How the **** did that happen? My reply to post #11 went before the post!
(Post #9)

I'm noticing that a lot over the last week or so.
They must have done a software upgrade.

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