has anyone here got a full licence with all categories ? what does it look like front and back ?

wsa30h

title says it all

hoodie6029

Do you want my driver number and photo too? Let me know if you want my credit card number too…

wsa30h

just want to see the categories no picture the writing on the front and back

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121357942#Comment_121357942

Its a joke. OP is possibly trying to scam someone

Idleater

Can you not google image search? plenty of samples including from "fake id world" for €159

https://images.app.goo.gl/JoyPEPnX5NFgqqqF9

SEPT 23 1989

My father has one and he never sat a test for any of the categories

wsa30h

imagine getting all categories without ever sitting a test how stupid can they be to give someone every category without testing.

Marcusm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121358024#Comment_121358024

No tests prior to the 1960s! The person’s father might simply have been that old.

Spook_ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121358175#Comment_121358175

Actually 1979 when there was an "amnesty" for 1000's waiting on tests caused by a post office strike

https://www.axa.ie/articles/young-driver/the-history-of-the-driving-test/#:~:text=1979,being%20caught%20in%20delivery%20limbo.

So assuming an age of 17+ looking for a test they could be 61+ now and still never sat a test

Witcher

Just once it would be nice to see a licence thread without 'Dey didn't even do da tests yearses ago'

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121359175#Comment_121359175

In the 1979 amnesty you only got a B licence or whatever you where waiting to get tested.

My Dad and Uncles have all categories without sitting any test, they just went to the local garda station and ticked the boxes. I did it the hard expensive way.

mikeecho

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121362382#Comment_121362382

We don't like to let facts get in the way of a good story.

We all know that they handed out full drivers licences with every category to school children,

The story of Sylvester Barrett the then minister for environment in 1979 (45yrs ago) giving licences only to those on the waiting list for a test, who were on their 2nd or subsequent provisional getting a full licence, only for the category they were waiting to be tested for, doesn't sound as sexy.

cml387

There was something about the changeover from the old red wallet type licence to the flimsy pink one back in the 1980's. I was asked if I wanted an extra category added (I forget which one) when I got my first pink flimsy, all I'd need is a medical. I never bothered.

Maybe it was because there was some crossover between the old vehicle categories and the European ones?

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121376573#Comment_121376573

You could of got BE and C1.

Joe 90

The driving test arrived sometime in the mid 1960s. Before that you just filled in the form and sent it to to county council with the fee, £1.

17 for a car licence, 18 for a truck and 21 for a locomotive.

If I remember correctly a farmer's son could legally drive a tractor on the road at 14. I'd assume that in those enlightened days a car licence covered you for a tractor.

The full licence giveaway in the late 2970s was for those on their secy provisional licence. It was due to the long delay for the driving test.

When I did the test in 1967 I applied for the test at Easter and did it in mid September.

I knew people who just ticked all the boxes when renewing their licence and got all the categories without doing any further test.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121357949#Comment_121357949

Bingo, you see guys advertising Irish drives license on Facebook so I guess this is what they are up to

Esel

Look at some of the other threads stated by the OP...