Foreign car clampdown?

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a further problem is some of these EU-10 cars have registration plates without the country name, AFAIK they are then supposed to have an oval sticker with the country name (rememeber those things?! GB, IRL etc.)

some of the plates I've seen have been had silver text on a black background, just like Ireland had in one of the pre-europlate days

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I'd imagine that gardai aren't interested, if they call to the house they might get a "me no speak english", "he doesn't live here anymore" the reality on the ground is that migrants are very mobile, and sharp.

I'd further imagine that the gardai find it much easier to pursue UK people who have UK registered cars, which will likely be newere witha higher OMSP, doing this likely keeps the Revenue Comms happy

Alun

Sparky-s wrote:

I once seen a latvian merc involved in an accident on the roads, the guards were there at the time, and from what I could see there was no display of tax or insurance on the windscreen.

That doesn't mean a thing. If his car was LV registered, he might well not have these since, believe it or not, not every country in Europe believes in festooning the windscreen with 'discs' of all sorts. He may well have had tax and insurance from Latvia, and only just arrived here, in which case he was perfectly OK. In order for him to have an Irish tax and insurance 'disc', he would have first had to imprt the car and put it onto Irish plates.

Torak

Anan1 wrote:

Not even Michael Mc Dowell would be that stupid.

LMAO ;-)