Apparently Irish judges do not respect laws discouraging speeding any more than the Alberta judge does that I wrote about in my last post. A judge in Dublin reduced the charges against a speeding driver, saying that the speed did not look as bad in miles per hour as it did in kilometers per hour. (His 180 km/h speed only calculated to 112 m/h in a 100 km/h or 62 m/h zone.) The charges against him were reduced from dangerous driving, which would have resulted in losing his driver's license, to careless driving which got him a 1000 euro fine ($1450.00).
And speeding isn't the only thing that the Irish are lenient on. There is a law that drivers who fail their first driver's test can still get their license and drive by them self. That law is being changed effective mid-2008. Transport Department statistics say that 1-6 Irish drivers have never passed a road test.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21560119/
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