Author: Padraic Deane

We are delighted to announce that Eddie Cunningham, who has probably been Ireland’s best-known and most trusted motoring journalist over the past couple of decades, is joining the Automotive Publications team.

Parts Holding Europe (PHE) has agreed terms to purchase a significant shareholding in Top Part, Ireland’s largest motor factor group.

It never ceases to amaze me the number of surveys from the UK in particular, that drop into my inbox every week. You have to be very discerning when looking at them and the detail there in. If the subject might be of interest to our readers is the first decision. Then see who has

Following record attendances at the RDS Dublin this October, and the sell-out of all available space for 2024, the Auto Trade EXPO and CV Workshop EXPO will return in 2026, confirmed for Saturday and Sunday, 10th-11th October of that year.

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.