@bstorer said:
[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="bstorer"]Really? Then how do you plan to stop crazed leprechauns? You can't just placate them with pots of gold.
The whole damn country is crazed leprechauns. Besides, they're all so weak from the frequent potato famines and ubiquitous alcoholism that there's no real threat of physical violence.
[/quote]Sure, tell that to the IRA. I'm sure they're really frightened of the unarmed police force.[/quote]
The IRA were (and, well, are) in Northern Ireland - part of the UK with a very much armed police force.
There's rather a lot of crap being spewed by my countryman here... US licences are valid here, for 12 months. We don't have national ID nor are we in the Schengen area so I'm not sure why he felt the need to go on about Schengen-area ones. EU national ID cards can be refused here, but rarely are. Generally people use their driving licence as photo ID.
US licences are not any easier to forge than our ones - NOTHING is easier to forge than an Irish driving licence. Its tri-fold paper with one side laminated. Most of the rest of the EU has very difficult to forge licences, but so do most US states. Anyway, the real reason you can't swap a US licence here is that we don't regard your driving tests as good enough. Which is rather laugable as we have people who were issued licences without doing ours, including the head of the Road Safety Authority!
People, clearly, aren't stopped by the police in the middle lane of a road - they're pulled to the shoulder or up on sidewalks (if empty). Taxi plates and licences are obscenely cheap and have been for some years, so people no longer share them - the addition of a card with the drivers photo to the inside of the car a few years ago ever so slightly killed that.
I know Cork's behind the times but I never expected it to be THAT backward.