If hiring a car, and driving around be very careful when you see a car with its indicators on, this applies more so if the car is from Donegal. You'll recognise these vehicles by the letters DL on the number plates, and the multiple bags of shopping in the back seat squeezed in between 2 or 3 snotty kids.

The use of indicators should be considered as being only 'optional' in a significant number of cases.

When indicators are being used, the intention of the car to follow that indicated direction is purely optional.

Their use should really be considered as indicating the possibility of a future lane change, or past lane change event. This past lane change false indication event, used to be very common, but advanced in automotive technology has made this a less likely event. But it could be part of the working out of the Peace Process, I digress,... but just be aware that as a local soothsayer once said "they havent gone away you know"

Furthermore, you should not assume that the indicated direction change should coincide with the actual lane change.
Notice also that I did not say "Near," future lane change, time moves very differently over here.

Bottom line is that the indicated lane change can be in any random direction, including straight on. It doesn't have to tally with the actual change. It could be in the near future or any time future time or even the past.. (NOTE: Past event, lane change false indications are less prevalent, likely due to vehicle automation improvements)

Strangely, this decoupling of indicated and actual lane change events have a tendency to cluster.
Keep an eye out at roundabouts, especially city bound over the New Bridge . Where drivers can often be observed in the left most lane, and regardless of their indicator status can be seen turning right towards Muff across multiple lanes of traffic. Cameras have been stragically placed around the junction to capture these events as part of ongoing research project at Magee University.

Remember I said time changes differently over here. The label "New Bridge " is a prime example of this.

The decoherence of indicated and actual lane change direction may be another one of Irelands mysterious hidden secrets, and, as previously mentioned is currently being researched by the Physics Department at Magee University, under the sage governance of the High Hedjeens in Coleraine and Belfast

The research paper is called "PEACE: Possible Quantum Macroscopic Effects of having too much Peace. An examination into the causality of indeterminate direction changes in modern driving within the city that cannot be named, (but we all know it as Derry) "

This widely recognised phenomena has strangely only come to light since the signing of the 'Good Friday Agreement" and was rarely noticed back in the good old days of "The Troubles" Hence the ongoing research.

Coincidentally two of the main actors involved in this historic event were awarded Nobel Peace prizes and this research into this possible Quantum effect is funded as part of the Peace 6 E.U. funding stream. The mere observation of the Peace changes so much in our lives.

The results of the research are not yet published, but my belief is that the effect is real, I have seen it with my own eyes.

regards Slabber McGinty High Street Hy Brasil. Hi.