I’ve noticed that a lot of the examples of bad driving on this site are from my original home town of Limerick and was wondering - is it really that bad? Sure there are examples also from Dundalk, Galway, Cork, Dublin and others but Limerick seems to be leading the way so far… or maybe we’ve just got more writers from the mouth of the Shannon… or maybe our Limerick writers just write more… I dunno… Anyway - feel free to vote on this new poll now and tell us where, in your opinion, Ireland’s WORST drivers are.
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Just laughing to myself.. do the people of Ireland now need to be reminded which counties are in each province now? Or that Leinster includes Dublin?
Can I pick two?? I’m originally from Cork but I live in Carlow & I drive a lot between them, I’ve seen some incredibly shite driving in both provinces!! I think I’ll have to pick Leinster though as thats where I do most of my driving so thats where I see most of the bad stuff!!
Donegal. Maniacs. The boy racers’ natural environment.
The region of Clare around Lahinch, Ennistymon and Corofin. Ancient farmers with ‘94 Astra’s towing cattleboxes, reps completely lost on the country roads, cement trucks, gravel trucks, dumper trucks, delivery trucks, road works trucks, ESB trucks, flash SUV’s towing boats or horseboxes (my favorites, rich and arrogant, i.e. they don’t have to pull over for ANYONE), tourists completely lost or just gazing at anything but the road while driving and that’s before the season for hay is upon us, meaning bloody massive trucks towing 5 trailers of grass at 20 km/h. That’s not even counting tractors and other assorted farm and building machinery.
If you are on one of these roads annoyed at the fact that you have been crawling along behind a tractor towing a massive tank full of shit that is slowly emptying itself over your car: Relax, if you actually DO manage to overtake him, you’ll just be stuck behind the next obstacle. The sooner you resign yourself to 35 km/h the better.
I’ve seen people pull insane stunts to pass someone out on these roads. If they don’t end up in the ditch, they only end up behind the next whatever it is moving at 40 km/h tops.
My job coordinator who sits in London cannot wrap her head around the fact that it can take up to 1 hour to go from Ennis to Lahinch.
She looks at the distance and calculates the time based on UK roads.
Lahinch to Limerick? Should take no more than 40 minutes. Takes me 40 minutes just to stop laughing when she comes out with stuff like that. Then I tell her that she won’t see anymore of me once I’m in Lahinch. And that’s not just the Italian restaurant and the beach
as a limerick man the only one i can choose is munster since i dont drive in the other provinces.
Anywhere in kerry.Farmers in nakered mercs,Healy rea wannabees,SHIT roads,tourists driving at 5kph in huge campers you couldnt overtake even if they let you,and when you do get past you round the corner and theres another one AAAAAAGH.If youve never driven in kerry be warned,rules of the road do not apply,anywhere,ever.also no road signs anywhere.
Just laughing to myself.. do the people of Ireland now need to be reminded which counties are in each province now? Or that Leinster includes Dublin?
Sure! Why not? Some of them even need to be reminded which side of the road to drive on, that yellow boxes, disabled spaces, and loading bays are not for them to park in, or which pedal is the accelerator (and not the brake) - so why not remind them what counties are in what provinces?
Can we knock Dublin out of Leinster and put them on their own as i feel they are bad!
Example
Few weeks ago driving on the M50 which was clear i know shock shock. But a man decided to drive in the right hand land doing 60. This also seems to happen on the M1 but clears up after you get out of the Suburbs (Rush and all them places don’t know all of them sorry)
On the south side on Tuesday and coming home during the Tunnel €12 (worth it not to sit in traffic at 5pm) So a taxi pulls up to the toll booth and does not hand over cash but has a conversation with the man (At this point it seriously looked like the man thought he did not have to pay) TAXI’S are not HGV’s
Also Heaven forbid the light is green for more than .01 of a second and your not moving horn after horn.
Also Taxi drivers the general speed limits apply to yourselves you don’t have special speed limits.
Stupid couriers on their motor bikes and push bikes I would like to keep my mirrors thank you! You are also not really meant to weave in and out of traffic to get to the top of the traffic at the lights! Then take off like the end of the world only to have to stop at more lights 100 yards down the road!
Also remember you can get points for tailgating! (It is classed under Dangerous Driving)
Buses that have there own lane when some idiot is not parked on it with their hazards on (Shouting it is ok my hazards are on). Buses who pass out other buses when it only takes 30 seconds to pick up people at a bus stop!
Okay I’ve split Dublin out of the “Leinster” option, but I wasn’t able to change the no. of votes for each (the poll plugin is fairly basic) - meaning that Dublin got all of them (probably not entirely inaccurate anyway…), so… *cough*… the rest of Leinster’s got some catching up to do…
good point Niall!
Forget Dublin, when did the Limerick drivers achieve higher consciousness so they believe the cars around them can read their f**king minds! In Limerick, the rules of the road are a rough guideline, roundabouts are roundy obstacles which should be driven around at full speed and from any lane, using an indicator must mean 7 years bad friggin’ luck and cars aren’t parked..just abandoned. And yet…believe it or not…Limerick scores highest for driving test passes…O THE HUMANITY!!!!!!
I have to say that i think the poll is more represenitive of where the posters are from rather than where the worst driving is. we will all vote for our own areas because thats where we see all the bad driving.
I think Dundalk is one of the worst areas but thats because i live here.
lots of yellow regs round here but a lot of them are from the town not across the border. this gives a worse view of northern drivers ( who are bad enough as it is).
of course there is no enforcement, and little regard given to the suggestions ..i mean rules of the road.
Benni,
Yep, Limerick has it’s own, distinct sets of problems. Cars not indicating or watching where they’re going. Pedestrians running into the road without a care in the world. There should be at least 20 people killed in Limerick each day and that’s not counting shootings and stabbings.
Is it just me or is Limerick especially bad when it comes to pedestrians? How often have I seen the light for the cars go green and the pedestrian who up to now showed no interest in crossing the road suddenly starts to move across the road, despite the fact that his light is red and the cars have just moving. The person usually ambles across the road at a leisurely pace, throwing cars who dare beep at him dirty glances.
Maybe they’re hoping for an insurance payout, but I’m not sure it’s worth landing in a wheelchair for.
And of course yummy mummies using their buggy as a battering ram and sticking it into the path of an oncoming 18 wheeler.
Sure, Limerick drivers can be rude, discorteyous and downright dangerours, but the special award for outstanding shiteness should go to Limerick pedestrians, for their sheer death defying attitude to several tons of metal hurtling towards them at 50 km/h.
But maybe it’s just survival of the fittest in action. Who will survive? Pedestrian or 40 ton truck?