Hi, I just became a member, so would like to say, but not critize:
I bought my first car about 25 years ago, my friend who called me, to ask to meet him and then showed me a car he wanted to sell. I bought it for 100IEP (it needed work, but was a pretty good car, I did a lot of going in my early days with it) because he needed to get rid of it, he could only park it on the street in Dublin and had no insurance or tax on it. Long before the internet he knew, I knew, my father who died in the 90's knew, my mother never drove a car knew and most people long before the internet knew (it had come up in conversations and once as a young teenager you heard this it made sense): if it's on a public road it has to be taxed and insured (no NCT then). Why would this not be the default position to take now? Sorry, I just had to say this. I would like to say to, when it comes to driving / road legislation the safe and sensible / cautious position usually turns out to be the law. Thanks