Gearboxes, Grief, and the Glorious Absence of Both
Let me tell you something about the manual gearbox. It was, for the best part of a century, the single greatest test of whether a person could actually drive a car or whether they were merely a passenger who happened to be sitting in the front. It involved a clutch...
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Buying the car you want just doesn’t make sense anymore
I f you’ve ventured outside in Ireland over the last week, you’ll have noticed that the local Applegreen looks less like a service station and more like the set of a post-apocalyptic movie where the extras have run out of both patience and Tayto. The fuel protests have turned...
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Used car market in Ireland, here’s what you need to know right now
If you’ve been keeping half an eye on the used car market in Ireland lately, you might have noticed something interesting: things have calmed down considerably. After a few wild years of pandemic-driven price spikes, supply chain chaos, and Brexit upheaval, the market in 2026 has settled into something that...
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The beginning of a new lock down?
It’s a big day for the Irish forecourt. If you’ve been holding off on a fill-up until this morning, March 25, 2026, your patience (and that near-empty fuel light) might finally pay off. The government has officially pulled the emergency brake on spiraling costs. As of midnight, we’ve seen...
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