First win of the season for Alyx Coby
Alyx Coby secures her first win of the season at Round 4 of the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship 13-year-old Alyx Coby, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, secured her first win of the season at Round 4 of the Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship in Tynagh, Co. Galway last weekend. Competing in the IAME X30 Junior class, which caters for drivers aged from 12 to 16, the sixth class student from Gaelscoil Chill Dara got the day off...
Lapping up BMW icons at Mondello
At the BMW Ultimate Driving Experience day you can unleash some serious horsepower without getting penalty points, writes Geraldine Herbert No speed limits, no traffics lights, no congestion, just you and an accelerator firmly pinned to the floor. At our National track in Mondello I was learning how to brake, steer and accelerate along the track’s racing line in an M2 and an M4 as part of the BMW Driving Experience day....
Ten things we learned about Travel and Car ownership in Census 2016
The latest census shows more of us are spending longer in our cars and leaving earlier writes Geraldine Herbert The number of people commuting to work increased by 10.7% from 1.70 million in 2011 to 1.88 million in 2016. More of us are cycling than before, in fact cycling to work recorded the largest percentage increase of 42.8 per cent over the five years. We are spending longer getting to work; the average stated journey time...
Of Cars, Women and the Bard
In early June in England, 14 women from 12 different countries made motoring history writes Sandy Myhre The occasion was Jaguar receiving a trophy for the F-Pace winning the 2016 supreme award in Women’s World Car of the Year. The women motoring writers meeting in Stratford-upon-Avon on 1st June are all on the jury of the only car awards in the world voted entirely by women. If a collective of women motoring journalists doesn’t seem...
The old motors that just keep on giving
Given how hard is it to tax, insure and maintain an older car, why do so many of us drive them? By Geraldine Herbert Siobhan Carroll almost cried when she traded in her black 2002 Suzuki Swift. For 12 years she owned “Sammy” the car that saw her through college, two jobs and 165,000 kilometres. “I have nothing but good memories of the car,” says Siobhan. “One of the best was a journey from Dublin to Kerry for an October...
Dispelling the Myths on Drink Driving
An Oireachtas Transport Committee is currently debating a change to the legislation on drink-driving proposed by Minister for Transport Shane Ross. The RSA look at some of the myths about drink driving What is the change in the legislation on drink-driving proposed by Minister for Transport Shane Ross? Under the current law, driving disqualifications are only handed out for first offences above the 80mg per 100ml level. The...
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