Author: Padraic Deane

Budget 2025, announced yesterday evening by Ministers Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe, contains some measures specific to motoring:

We are now only three weeks away from kick off of the 2024 Auto Trade EXPO and CV Workshop EXPO – Ireland’s one and only auto and transport industries aftermarket exhibition, which will be the biggest aftermarket show across Ireland and the UK this year.

The coveted Irish Auto Trade Awards return this year with voting now underway across a number of key categories.

A number of lubricant suppliers have suffered recently as a result of a theft scam. Four different lubricant sales businesses that we are aware of (possibly more) have had similar losses and a fifth only avoided it by the credit card failing to work.

Time is really moving along. There are now just four months to go to Ireland’s one and only auto and transport industries aftermarket exhibition.

CD Group managing director, Terry Knox, has been named as the new chairman of the supervisory board of ATR International AG.

Across the Irish Sea, the most active regions for car thefts have been identified in a new study. A comparison by experts shows Northern Ireland as most favourable with just 244 cars stolen, which represents just 23 of each 100,000 on the road.

It was with regret that we learned that Dano Dennehy of Castleisland Motor Factors in Co Kerry, passed away suddenly but peacefully at home at the age of 82 last week.

An Garda Síochána has announced the locations of nine static speed safety cameras. These are aimed to be fully operational by the end of 2024.