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I have been ranting for a long time now, mostly about Road Safety. Here are selected rants from the ‘Irish Independent’, Ireland’s biggest selling National Newspaper. Some people disagree with my views, and in the interest of fairness, I have not included them. Click the links in yellow to go to the individual articles: your browser’s ‘BACK’ button will bring you back to this page ( where you belong! )

 

Would Sir like a ‘chipped’ plate?

The laughably easy availability of number plates has been a hobbyhorse of mine for a long time now. I laid another egg ...

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/fake-car-plates--a-real-concern-1838231.html

 

Supermarket ‘shades - lady’ encounter

Sometimes looking cool is all important - even when speeding the wrong way out of a supermarket car - park ...

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/seeing-through-shade-wearers-1718501.html

Take the Bus you idiot! ( and be an idiot )

Forget about sitting beside someone who is demented and talking to themselves. Forget about people who smell of urine and / or booze. Forget about wondering why you can’t smoke when you’re deftly stepping over the vomit on the floor along with all this. There’s another reason to take public transport - it’s good for the environment. Those who need to get to jobs though, need not apply.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/missing-the-bus-on-good-service-1708411.html

 

Still whining, but with a Social conscience :)

It’s a new year. Peace and love to all Men ... and Women ( and S.U.V. drivers ... nah! )

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/women-no-worse-drivers-than-men-1633098.html

One bump too many

Wrecking the car on the inside lane of the M50 - then 'liberation'

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/im-driven-to-the-ledge-of-reason-1340473.html

Ode to our two - wheeled friends 

Cycling two abreast on 'Le Tour' ... or rather in Bray on a Saturday morning. Latex - bottomed nuisances.

 http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/cyclists-drive-me-round-the-bend-1332959.html

No one loves us

Do as you please and keep on doing it ... or do the right thing and suffer

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/no-rewards-for-good-drivers-1306971.html

Forecourt Rage

Mindless Petrol - pump car abandonment, etc.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/petrol-stations-fuel-frustration-1295327.html

Young fellas aren't the whole problem

Auld lad's night out. One blank minded ditherer and a red - light jumper.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/young-drivers-not-worst-road-danger-1319542.html

Young fellas still aren't the whole problem:

Auld lads control everything!

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/driving-debate-takes-wrong-turn-1326693.html

It's all about the environment, not screwing us. Really.

Drive a lot, drive a little ... pay the same.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/green-tax-is-simply-highway-robbery-1246377.html

Driver training: the beyond

Getting serious about car control

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/training-vital-to-curbing-road-deaths-1235111.html

Roadworks and 'Non National' Roads ...

Suggesting roadworks folk have no brain, and recreating Warsaw

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/roadworks-and-the-angelus-are-here-to-stay-1066646.html

The dark side of Black Ice

Impeding the progress of traffic at 60 k.p.h. on iced - over roads

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/black-ice-threat-to-speeding-drivers-1231098.html

Expensive Toyota MR-2 from across the pond

How the system for importing a car into Ireland rythmes with 'Bulltwit'

http://www.independent.ie/other/wheels-of-government-695740.html

'Quirks of the Irish Driver' ... DRL's?

Turn on your lights and be safe ... turn 'em on full and be twice as safe?

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/quirks-of-the-irish-driver-1048104.html

Too much on my 'plate'

Who needs to know the year or where you're from? I thought number plates were for identification

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/number-plates-an-uphill-struggle-1256228.html

Time to complain about wimmin!

A Black Golf. A fake blonde. Shades. Go figure.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/spare-me-the-woman-driver-680717.html

Scumbags at Dawn ( on a bridge! )

Watch your back ( or rather, windscreen ) if passing some flyovers down Wicklow way

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/hoodie-horrors-on-the-motorway-bridge-41273.html

It's those feminists again ...

How getting ahead of a man is paramount

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/feminism-through-dangerous-driving-955814.html

Speeding: Car advertisements

The Industry is safety conscious. The Industry advertises speed. Which is it?

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/the-speeding-tv-car-ads-69248.html

Them bloody hooligans on YouTube again ...

Bad boys doing bad things. The bane of 100% of our motoring woes?

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/banning-boy-racer-videos-70169.html

A new way to look at car salesmen ...

That nice guy in a suit could be trying to kill you!

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/motor-trade-is-selling-speed-89451.html

Who's your Daddy? Not the AA I think ...

Campaigning for motorists? Just because it looks like a sheep don't make it part of our flock

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/blame-where-blame-is-due-96472.html

Anyone for sex? - I mean speed ...

Seperating the two in advertising ... if that is possible.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/making-speed-seem-sexy-114696.html

 

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