Walk around any supermarket car park in Ireland and you’ll spot them — immaculate, high-spec hatchbacks and hybrids with that unmistakeable just-landed look. Clean underneath. Low mileage. Full of kit. Japanese imports have quietly become one of the smartest moves an Irish car buyer can make, but get it wrong and you’ll be writing […]

  The Irish bank holiday. A glorious, rain-flecked tradition where half the population of Dublin collectively decides to pack into a Nissan Qashqai and sit in a stationary, forty-mile tailback on the M7, surviving entirely on lukewarm deli counters sausages and the faint hope of catching a glimpse of a grey Atlantic. But let’s say […]

      Over the last few years, trying to buy a second-hand car in Ireland has been roughly as pleasant as logic-checking a toddler. We had the pandemic, which stopped factories making microchips, which meant nobody could buy a new car. Then we had Brexit, which meant importing a sensible, well-specced diesel saloon from […]

The Rotting Majority: Why Good Old Cars Are Almost Impossible to Find   There is absolutely no shortage of old cars in Ireland. Hop on DoneDeal on a random Tuesday and you will find approximately four thousand of them, each one photographed at an angle that hides the dings and rust with a perfect description […]

Selling your car is easy right? Surely you didn’t think that selling your own car was going to be a walk in the park. Somewhere in the back of your mind, behind the fantasy of a stranger handing over a fistful of cash for your tired 2014 diesel hatchback, there was a small, quiet voice […]