You are meant to change over your licence if you become a resident here.
You can get two if you have both a UK and an Irish address
I have a full Irish, and a provisional UK one.
Are you sure about that? In order to get an irish licence you have to surrender your UK one. Also, if you passed your test in the UK you're not allowed to sit it here.
You might be in possession of a licence from each, but I would check if you're actually legally entitled to hold both.
does the valididy of the uk licence not come into question when you have not changed address in the relevant section to your new address. i also changed to irish from uk when my insurance co. started increasing premiums for non irish licence holders(they obviously can't check points on non irish licences and may run the risk of insuring boy racers)Never had any problem with insurance companies - i've been with 3 or 4 different ones since I moved back to Ireland, they all have copies of my UK licence and never requested that I change to an irish one. I was also stopped by the gardai a few weeks ago and as I only had a photocopy of my licence in the car, they asked me to produce my licence at station within 10 days. I did this, they took a photocopy and that was all, no request to change to irish licence. The only comment they made was that there was no photo on it (as it's one of the old-style licences).
I have a UK Licence and I have in the past been stopped by a guard that my licence was illegal and he was goint to take it off me.
I refused to hand it over and he said that he would arrest me if i did not give it to him.
I refused again and told him to ring his station and ask his superintendant if my licence was illegal.
He was on the phone for a few minutes got out of the car and told me to go.
I have no intention of giving up my licence and it is legal
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