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Tesco Ireland may join the UK in expanding its e-car charging network
Tesco may extend their Irish e-car charging points network after UK move. Tesco and Volkswagen have teamed up to develop free charging points for electric cars across 600 of its stores in the UK over the next three years and they are set to roll out an e-car charging network here in Ireland also. The Retail Electric Vehicle (EV) charging...
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Dublin Six Line Metro System Could Be In Place By 2025
Dublin 'could have a six-line metro system in place by 2025 entirely funded by private investment' and the Metro Dublin plan would cost €9bn. John van der Poll, the CEO of Metro Dublin thinks the capital could bring in the system relatively cheap and save Dubliners massively in travel time. The lines would run from Ashbourne, Swords, Howth Junction, Rathfarnham,...
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Motor Insurance Cover for up to 50,000 Customers Worthless As Firm Fails
Up to 50,000 motor insurance customers have found that their cover is worthless because their insurance company has gone under and they have been urged to seek new deals from alternative insurers. Danish company Qudos has gone into liquidation and it is not known as of yet whether the insurer will be able to pay outstanding insurance claims as payouts...
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Longford ‘Chop Shop’ Raided by Gardaí
A Longford ‘Chop Shop’ has been raided by Gardaí who have recovered parts worth €500k. They believe the Longford site was used for the disassembly of stolen vehicles. A chop shop is exactly that, a location or business which disassembles stolen vehicles, mainly cars, for the purpose of selling its parts. The term ‘chop shop’ originated from the practice of...
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MyVehicle.ie Nationwide Market Overview for November 2018
Car sales for November The MyVehicle.ie Nationwide Market Overview report for the month of November 2018 shows that of the top ten used cars sold by Independent dealers in Ireland, the number one best selling car was the Opel Insignia. This is a change from the usual culprits such as the Volkswagen Golf which held the number 1 spot in...
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New Ford Mondeo Hybrid Estate to Hit Irish Roads
A new addition has been made to the Ford range in Ireland. Very soon we will see the new Ford Mondeo hybrid estate on Irish roads. The new addition should be here in spring 2019. Ford is aiming to expand its Hybrid range next year with the addition of this estate model. At present, the Mondeo Hybrid is only available...
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Conor McGregor Banned From Driving!
Conor McGregor gets driving ban UFC fighter Conor McGregor has been banned for driving for six months and fined €1,000 by a judge in Co Kildare for breaking speed limit at 154km/h. The world famous fighter was disqualified after admitting driving 54km/h over the speed limit in a 100km/h zone. He was stopped in October 2017 last year by Gardaí...
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Volkswagen's response to 'potentially lethal' seat belt fault criticised
Volkswagen owners who bought their cars over the summer say they were not told about a fault where a seat belt could unbuckle. Many have called Volkswagen's handling of a "potentially lethal safety issue" involving seatbelts as "completely unsatisfactory", Volkswagen has reportedly sold an estimated 55,000 vehicles since it was made aware of the fault six months ago with VW...
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Driverless cars to be tested in London and will be launched by Christmas
Autonomous cars are being tested on the streets of London as part of a plan to deploy the UK's first completely autonomous fleet on British roads by this Christmas. A UK Government-backed consortium is deploying these cars to map the streets of Hounslow in West London to teach them to understand road signs and lane markings following successful tests in...
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Drink Drivers Face Automatic Disqualification
Drink drivers face automatic disqualification as recent new laws came into effect. In the previous law, a concession was made in the legislation by which some drink drivers received penalty points instead of being disqualified but this has now changed. Drink-drivers will automatically be banned from driving for three months when they are caught. The Minister for Transport, Shane Ross...