Roundabout query

Right hand lane once you're going past 12 o'clock as far as I'm aware

THere should be arrows painted on the road surface in both lanes as you approach the roundabout. Those answers will answer your question definitively.

Google maps snapshot of the roundabout?

Sounds like a right laner to me.

what for argument sake if:

exit 1 is in the 11pm location

exit 2 is in the 2pm location

only 2 exits

am i right in using the right lane for the 2nd exit?

my mrs and i had a row over this.

Nope.

And also, it must have a third exit, which is the one you are approaching on. If you intended to do a 360 and leave by the way you approached, then the right lane would be correct to use.

That's a Northern Ireland Highway Code Drawing. There's plenty of RSA stuff concerning Roundabouts.

The rules are the same down here.

That's a clear right laner for me, with right indication.

It's near enough a 90 degree turn

Walter Just get him (garda) into court and you'll beat him and leave red-faced I've no doubt

If the guard was able to pass you on the left, then I would say you should have been in the left lane.

Keep left and all that.

There is no reason not to take the left lane going into the roundabout.

Having said that, for the guard to charge you with anything is way over the top.

I would be arguing it in court.

On streetview you can even make out the arrows showing left lane is for left.

Even the car the streetview car is following in above link does it wrong

I'd be more concerned about the gard altering the story and not focusing on the roundabout, make it more about dangerous lane changes or something....who can prove what? A judge will take gards word. No dash cam by any chance?

You're thinking about it too much. Just do whatever you feel like at that moment. Also, and this part is crucial, be completely oblivious to everything else going on around you. Bonus points if you give somebody doing it correctly a dirty look, it's unIrish to be doing such things.

There'll always be at least one who'll attempt to shoehorn a bit of anti British sentiment into any conversation.

Roundabout use is definitely a first for me though😁

Same roundabout 2019 The right hand lane straight-on arrow is to continue on the R445, the right arrow is local access.

But the roundabout was being changed and arrows removed.

As I see it ;

Exit 1 business park;(8 o'clock) from left lane

If exit 2 (11 o'clock ) if open now, also from left lane

Exit 3 (1 o'clock) continue on R445 from right lane

exit 4 ( 4 o'clock) local access would be right hand lane also.

If exit 2 is not yet open then R445 would be from left lane.

Arrows on the road here would confuse.

Edited, map rotated so OP is now entering roundabout at 6 o'clock and exiting at 1 o'clock

I would tend to agree about using the right lane in this scenario, however I do remember coming across an article somewhere that should be considered authoritive possibly the RSA but can't remember remember exactly, that referred to the exit number you were taking, so for 1st and 2nd exists - no mention of angle, stay left, otherwise take the right. Since I can't turn up any corroboration for this, and it doesn't take any account of something like the Walkinstown roundabout (there's nothing evident on the RSA website which is ironic given the widespread ignorance among Irish drivers about even rudimentary roundabout usage - not a dig at the OP!) , I'd say the 12 o'clock rule is the better bet.

The guard was a dick IMHO, and probably changed his tune so he could make something more nebulous and subjective stick, when the OP had the "hatitude" to challenge his almighty wisdom

The Walkinstown roundabout is good practice for any driver once you survive the first circuit.Great craic.