Speeding in Southern Ireland

[jgguinness]

Hi all, was caught speeding in Southern Ireland when on holiday there the other week. Have received the fixed charge offence through the post this morning.

The fine is 80 Euro's if payed within 28 days, and it mentions 2 penalty points also. Can these be added to a UK driving license?

Kind regards
Jonathan

Edited by jgguinness on Wednesday 2nd September 18:39

[EU_Foreigner]

No, it can not.

[jgguinness]

Thanks for the reply mate, short and sweet. Will give them a call tomorrow, they were shut when I had got in from work and found the letter.

Kind regards
Jonathan

[PottyMouth]

Just out of interest, were you in a UK reg car or an Irish one?

[EU_Foreigner]

Having spent 4 years working in Ireland, I have only seen a single speed trap near Limerick as that is about the only road where the potholes are not huge

[HellDiver]

An Garda Siochana has the ability now to transfer points to N. Irish driving licences, and they also employ a debt collection agency to retreive fines from UK residents.

Used to be if you could make it to the border you were laughing, now it's not that simple.

[EU_Foreigner]

Is there such a thing as a N. Irish license? Thought that was a UK license ...

[jgguinness]

Hi. It is a British registered car. He was parked on a slip road, north bound on the new motorway from Cork to Dublin.

I fully intend to pay the fine, but wasnt sure about the points thats all. The paperwork says 2 points if I pay within 28 days, 4 if I dont. But i wasnt sure how the 2 points over there would translate to 3 over here etc.

Kind regards
Jonathan

[EU_Foreigner]

Standard Irish letter, but they have no means of putting points on a foreign license. As an aside, no need to report this fine to a UK insurer either as they are not interested what you do abroad.

[matchmaker]

EU_Foreigner said:

Is there such a thing as a N. Irish license?

Yes

EU Foreigner said:

Thought that was a UK license ...

No

Edited by matchmaker on Thursday 3rd September 13:04

[EU_Foreigner]

Did not know that, wonder why. There is no Scottish / Welsh license or English, so why NI?

[jgguinness]

Hi all, just made a call to the fixed charge processing unit in Tipperary. The lady located my details, and told me that fortunatly for me, but unfortunatly for them they cannot put points on a UK license. I still have to complete the form and put my license details on though.

Jonathan

[matchmaker]

EU_Foreigner said:

Did not know that, wonder why. There is no Scottish / Welsh license or English, so why NI?

Historical, I suppose.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensi...

When I worked in the courts in the South of Scotland (late 1970's)we couldn't endorse licences from Northern Ireland and driving bans only applied in GB.

There were some severely dodgy Irish lorries on the road then - like East European ones today!

[EU_Foreigner]

THanks for that.

[HellDiver]

N. Irish licenses have had photos on them for about 25 years, and are issued from Coleraine.

[dangerous brain]

Been a couple of years now but I picked up a speeding ticket just outside Cork in an English registered car and heard nothing more about it.

[bmwcsl]

Same as that - just shred it.

[streaky]

jgguinness said:

Hi all, just made a call to the fixed charge processing unit in Tipperary. The lady located my details, and told me that fortunatly for me, but unfortunatly for them they cannot put points on a UK license. I still have to complete the form and put my license details on though.

Jonathan

Why should they care? - Streaky

PS - good job you're a long way from Tipperary.

[EU_Foreigner]

Because anybody who is associated with that is power mad and due to lack of education and intelligence can not get a real job with power. So they never like it when the "lose" and you get one over them.

[DriveFree]

HellDiver said:

An Garda Siochana has the ability now to transfer points to N. Irish driving licences, and they also employ a debt collection agency to retreive fines from UK residents.

Used to be if you could make it to the border you were laughing, now it's not that simple.

Presumably there's a reciprocal agreement so that southern Irish drivers caught offending in N.I. can have resulting points assigned to their licences?