Disqualified from driving in Ireland, applying for a U.K. Driving licence

I'm wondering if this is possible to do, I know an agreement between Ireland and the UK on mutual recognition of driver disqualifications exists meaning If a driver is disqualified in an EU member state which issued their licence, they are automatically barred from driving abroad as they do not have a valid licence. However, if a driver from one EU member state is disqualified from driving in another member state, the ban applies only to the country which imposed it. The person could still drive in their home state or anywhere else. In 1998 the EU agreed a convention on driver disqualification which was intended to deal with this anomaly, and which would mean that disqualification anywhere in the EU would mean disqualification everywhere in the EU.
However, this convention was always going to be difficult to implement, due to the many different legal systems, different definitions of offences and different penalties in the different member states. Recognising this difficulty at the time the convention was drawn up, the EU allowed for any two member states to proceed with bilateral agreements within the framework of the convention, pending the implementation of the convention as a whole. In the event, only one such agreement was ever made, and that was between Ireland and the UK. The EU subsequently decided that, as of December 2014, the operation of the convention on driver disqualification would come under the jurisdiction of the European Court. Our friends in the UK were not in favour of giving additional powers to the European Court and, as a result, they withdrew from the convention on driver disqualification, using the provisions of the Lisbon treaty which allowed them to opt out of certain measures. This meant that our agreement with them, as it was under the framework of the convention, came to an end.

What are your thoughts on this? If you are currently disqualified in Ireland is it just a case of packing your bags and moving across the border to Northern Ireland or the uk and applying for an English licence and driving there?