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New Irish Driving License

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  • #32
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    It does make sense to have the harmonised across the entire EU anyway.

    At least we won't have any more embarrassing situations like this :

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7899171.stm
    BBC News reports wrote:
    The mystery of Ireland's worst driver

    Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver have emerged, the Irish Times reports.


  • #33
    readmylips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭readmylips


    10,000 penalty points for having a pink /green license AFTER the cutoff date !! ;) wait'l ya see.....


  • #34
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    readmylips wrote: »
    10,000 penalty points for having a pink /green license AFTER the cutoff date !! ;) wait'l ya see.....

    That's not until 2033 though! But, if you still have a green one (Learner's Permit / Provisional) they'd want to be sending you to get your eyes, hand-eye coordination etc checked!

    You'd have been on a learner's permit for 20 years!


  • #35
    dillo2k10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭dillo2k10


    readmylips wrote: »
    now all we have to do to get one is register and pay €100 ;)

    €25-€30
    And you dont have to get it replaced until your current licence expires.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/motors/2011/1012/1224305633672.html


  • #36
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    I'd say I might nearly invest in one when they come out. I am that sick of carrying around the old one!


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  • #37
    readmylips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭readmylips


    @dillo2k10: i was joking .........


  • #38
    rasper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭rasper


    Solair wrote: »
    readmylips wrote: »
    now all we have to do to get one is register and pay €100 ;)

    + VAT @ 23% and a photo processing charge :D
    + 9.99 Postage and Packaging.

    Big Leo was on about it saving us money , coz instead of 200 staff they only need 60
    , course that'll be passed on
    Wonder why so slow to do it the 140 x 50k = 7million per annum


  • #39
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    They release it now, I just renewed mine last year so 9 more years left with the pink thing.


  • #40
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Sarn wrote: »
    It's not the colour that's the problem, it's the size of the thing.
    Its not the size of the thing that is the problem, its what's embedded in the thing.


  • #41
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,370 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    44leto wrote: »
    They release it now, I just renewed mine last year so 9 more years left with the pink thing.

    You will be able to upgrade it as soon as the new one is out, for some sort of fee unknown as yet.


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  • #42
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    It's a chip. It'll probably just have your driving license details on it. Loads of cards have chips embedded these days.
    The main reason being it makes them harder / almost impossible to copy.


  • #43
    Dostoevsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Dostoevsky


    MickySticks wrote: »
    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.

    Clearly, you're reasonably intelligent, so why on earth do you want to make stupid, ignorant comments denying Irish people a right to deal with their state through Irish and force them to deal with it in your language?

    Jesus Christ, you've little to have a chip on your shoulder about. :o


  • #44
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Yet more control by the EU nanny super state.
    We can't even have our own driving licence now.
    Soon they will be harmonising our passports and removing the harp and Eire from them; to be replaced by EU and the stars.


  • #45
    dillo2k10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭dillo2k10


    readmylips wrote: »
    @dillo2k10: i was joking .........

    I gathered that from the smiley face


  • #46
    stoeger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭stoeger


    Just sent mine off on Monday will I get the new one or the old


  • #47
    dillo2k10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭dillo2k10


    stoeger wrote: »
    Just sent mine off on Monday will I get the new one or the old
    The old one, the new one wont be here until the end of the year or start of next year.


  • #48
    Fieldsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭Fieldsman


    Mickysticks I agree with you its people like Dostoevsky with special demands for a Irish language version that has the country robbed at a time when money is very scarce


  • #49
    esharknz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭esharknz


    From the irish times article:


    “You won’t be required to change but we anticipate there will be interest from people who want the new licences,” he said, partly because – subject to written confirmation – Varadkar has been told Ryanair passengers will be able to use the new licence as a form of identification."

    Would be good if you can't find/forgot to renew your passport and need to travel in the CTA


  • #50
    Dostoevsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Dostoevsky


    Fieldsman wrote: »
    Mickysticks I agree with you its people like Dostoevsky with special demands for a Irish language version that has the country robbed at a time when money is very scarce

    :rolleyes:


  • #51
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Fieldsman wrote: »
    Mickysticks I agree with you its people like Dostoevsky with special demands for a Irish language version that has the country robbed at a time when money is very scarce


    Accomodating Bilingualism from the outset usually does not cost anything extra.


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  • #52
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    Yet more control by the EU nanny super state.
    We can't even have our own driving licence now.
    Soon they will be harmonising our passports and removing the harp and Eire from them; to be replaced by EU and the stars.
    To be fair, the one we have is a forking joke.


  • #53
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    There already is an EU ID card the national cards are basically standardised. We and the UK (despite New Labour's best efforts) opted out of it.


  • #54
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Solair wrote: »
    It's a chip. It'll probably just have your driving license details on it. Loads of cards have chips embedded these days.
    The main reason being it makes them harder / almost impossible to copy.
    A chip that could eventually disclose information that could be used against you every time your card is scanned within the EU jurisdiction.

    There is also the strong possibility that this card will eventually become the chipped EU Identity card by stealth through the back door.


  • #55
    lastlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    A chip that could eventually disclose information that could be used against you every time your card is scanned within the EU jurisdiction.

    There is also the strong possibility that this card will eventually become the chipped EU Identity card by stealth through the back door.

    What kind of information are you so concerned about?


  • #56
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    lastlaugh wrote: »
    What kind of information are you so concerned about?
    An example would be traffic violations and public order offences recorded on your ID card license from corrupt police forces abroad.


  • #57
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    Sarn wrote: »
    It's not the colour that's the problem, it's the size of the thing.

    That's what she said.


  • #58
    kjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    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.

    I actually think this is a brilliant idea.


  • #59
    lastlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    An example would be traffic violations and public order offences recorded on your ID card license from corrupt police forces abroad.

    Hmmm, I wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about what corrupt police forces abroad might read from my license all the same...


  • #60
    donkey balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    Under the new EU directive the new licences should be in by jan 18th next with this directive it will also mean anyone who happens to have either a bus/truck category on their licence will only get a 5 year licence.
    I wonder will people who drive for a living or have a hgv/bus category only pay half the price for the licence:rolleyes: considering it's only valid for 5 years,Also would people be happy if your personnel details were giving to a company based in the UK to manufactor the driving licence as what happens at present with people who drive bus&trucks at present.;)

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2011/en/si/0483.html


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  • #61
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    dillo2k10 wrote: »
    The old one, the new one wont be here until the end of the year or start of next year.

    What the actual fuck? It's a piece of rectangular plastic! How hard can it be?




    (Cue jokes pertaining to the mechanical durability of plastic laminate)


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