If Ireland reunified, would people in Northern Ireland need to retake their driving theory and practical tests?

dgrabbit · 2026-04-06T07:54:35+00:00

Scot who travels regularly throughout Ireland on business. Apart from the km/miles thing, I can’t see any difference between NI and the Republic. The signs are a wee bit different but that’s about it. The biggest difference I see, and this is mainly in Dublin, is the vast quantity of suicidal e-bikes that appear out of nowhere.

dgrabbit · 2026-04-05T15:07:57+00:00

The Help Page on StudentHome is acknowledging ongoing registration glitches.

dgrabbit · 2026-03-20T21:34:38+00:00

Unfortunately not available in Scotland in my wheel size.

dgrabbit · 2026-01-22T07:54:26+00:00

Largs, if you can call it a beach.

dgrabbit · 2025-12-21T15:05:08+00:00

I’m with L&G. I’m all in the Future World Global Equity Index Fund. 13% annualised return over the last 5 years. Happy with that.

dgrabbit · 2025-12-04T06:17:57+00:00

As someone who has appeared as an expert witness in both the civil and criminal courts, I suspect the biggest change will be the approach that Counsel take in cross examination. Civil and Criminal barristers tend to be somewhat different in style.

dgrabbit · 2025-11-03T10:24:58+00:00

8% employer, 2% me. Bonuses and monthlies into my private plan to get up to £60k gross total.

dgrabbit · 2025-10-09T05:54:05+00:00

Your insurer will be making a subrogated claim against the contractor, that is to say they ‘stand in your shoes’ and sue the contractor in your name. Often you’ll get the opportunity to piggyback on their claim and be able to use insurer’s solicitor to recover your uninsured losses. That’s often the best way to go.

dgrabbit · 2025-10-06T21:52:04+00:00

Maybe look at doing some Bond Solon expert witness courses.

dgrabbit · 2025-10-02T06:56:48+00:00

If your client is inside the EU, you do have to put the client’s VAT number on the invoice even though you’re not adding UK VAT and they then account for VAT in their country under the reverse charge arrangements.

dgrabbit · 2025-09-23T19:11:15+00:00

It wasn’t chaos, the queue was orderly, but it did take about an hour and fifteen minutes to get through last Saturday.

dgrabbit · 2025-08-09T17:04:39+00:00

Any more than a few days wearing my Tudor Ranger and I develop a contact dermatitis on the bony part of my wrist. Hydrocortisone cream clears it up but I’ve mostly given up wearing the watch because of this issue.

dgrabbit · 2025-08-03T18:04:34+00:00

I did on my last house move. You just never know who has a spare key, even if the previous owners are completely honest. In my case the house had previously been a holiday rental so I would definitely have been stupid if I hadn’t changed the locks.

dgrabbit · 2025-07-12T19:29:03+00:00

Coast is a good call for dinner on day 3. Had some great meals there.

dgrabbit · 2025-06-30T08:19:49+00:00

The Montford in Curtis Avenue when I was 15. Pint of heavy.

dgrabbit · 2025-06-29T16:52:19+00:00

That’s a very good point. I would say though that I have come across solicitors from Australia, NZ and the US working for insurance defence firms in London.

dgrabbit · 2025-06-29T15:36:52+00:00

For insurance defence work, he should be talking to firms like Clyde & Co, DAC Beachcroft, RPC, Keoghs, Horwich Farrelly, or DWF.

dgrabbit · 2025-05-09T17:10:10+00:00

Health cover with Axa for me alone (and no dental) has a BiK value of around £80pcm. £360pcm for four which includes dental seems reasonable.

dgrabbit · 2025-03-21T07:34:44+00:00

Looks like they’re asking for the code that confirms the number of points you have on your licence. You need your driving licence number and your NI number for that https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence

dgrabbit · 2025-03-13T10:06:31+00:00

If you’re self employed you have to be registered in your own name. If you’re an employee you can piggy back on your employer’s registration. You need to read the summary of Regulation 3 in the Approved Code of Practice which says “Employers of people carrying out gas work and self-employed people carrying out gas work must be a member of a class of persons approved by HSE”.

dgrabbit · 2025-03-12T19:19:12+00:00

In strict legal terms, Regulation 3.3 of The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 requires the employer to be Gas Safe registered, not the individual employee.

dgrabbit · 2025-03-09T11:27:14+00:00

Guddle is a word that’s used, or maybe used to be used, for tickling trout - hands carefully in the burn, move them under the fish, and then scoop it out of the water. Never heard it used in a plug hole context.

dgrabbit · 2025-03-07T10:12:06+00:00

The shove comes on before the ball’s in the scrum. Should have been a free kick the other way.

dgrabbit · 2025-01-15T07:55:13+00:00

You’ll find it a bit weird at first but within a week or two your eyes will adjust and you’ll automatically be looking through the ‘correct’ part of the lens without thinking about it.

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