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Car break-ins in the Wicklow mountains on the increase
There has been a spate car thefts in remote locations in the Wicklow mountains. With these cars getting broken into, it certainly doesn’t look good for our tourist industry. The problem of car theft in the Wicklow Mountains has been an ongoing problem in Wicklow for years but with the recent marketing of “Ireland’s Ancient East”, it has become somewhat...
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Ireland's newest motorway to open early
Ireland’s newest motorway, the new Gort to Tuam M17 is set to open by the end of September. The Gort to Tuam road,as regular users will know, is an extremely busy stretch of road which is overdue relief by a motorway. It doesn't really matter what time of the day you travel on this road, you are almost guaranteed to...
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Seat chief says sees CNG cars could be used as a diesel alternative
Seat chief says sees CNG cars could be used as a diesel alternative The chief executive of the Spanish Volkswagen division believes that compressed natural gas (CNG) could be used as an alternative fuel source to diesel. Seat was bought by Volkswagen in 1986. Even though the company is less exposed to diesel dependency than the premium carmakers, it still...
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Whisky is the new fuel propelling cars of the future
The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher once said, "You must have whisky to give you energy." She may very well have been right as a Scottish startup just last week became the first company to successfully fuel a car using whisky. Yes, you hear it correctly, Whiskey, or more accurately, a whisky residue biofuel. Professor Martin Tangney, the founder and president...
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Engineers want multiple toll’s and a change of speed limit on the M50
Engineers are saying that variable speed limits and multiple points of tolling should be introduced on the M50 in order to ease congestion. This is the stated opinion released this week by Engineers Ireland in their infrastructure report The State of Ireland 2017. As anyone from Dublin will tell you, the M50 motorway is massively congested at most times of...
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Toyota app that will save lives on Irish roads and reward safe drivers
Toyota Ireland has launched a new mobile app designed to save lives on Irish roads. The new app is being supported by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and will encourage drivers to face their phone down which will pick them up rewards at Topaz Re Store outlets nationwide, allowing them to redeem the points for a complimentary hot drink. The...
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First Customers take ownership of their brand new Tesla Model 3 Electric Cars
More than 500,000 people have already put down a deposit for the new Tesla's Model 3 electric car. The first customers to receive the new EV were 30 employees of the Tesla Motor company and the vehicles were personally handed over by Tesla’s CEO and Founder, Elon Musk. Approximately a half-million people have put down a $1,000 deposit to own...
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Driving bans to apply on both sides of Border
Driving bans will be recognised on both sides of the Border from today. The law has been change both here in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland which will allow for mutual recognition of driving bans. This latest road safety agreement which is in force from today was signed between the UK and Irish governments. This will mean that...
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10% of cars assisted by Allianz last year had expired NCTs
According to Allianz, 10% of cars they assisted had expired NCT certificates. That means that more than one in ten (832) broken down cars assisted by Allianz last year were being driven with expired NCT certificates and 5 per cent of the vehicles had no valid certificate at all. In all, 7,042 cars received breakdown assistance from the insurance company...
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Microsoft teams up with BMW to put Skype communication in cars
Microsoft teams up with BMW to put Skype communication in cars Microsoft is expanding its partnership with the giant German car manufacturer, BMW to enable Skype for Business in cars that use BMW’s iDrive system. BMW was also one of the first car manufacturers to integrate Microsoft Office 365 services in their cars. This latest feature communications feature in BMW...