New laws will stop motorists from repeatedly applying for learner permits without sitting a ­driving test. It comes as latest data shows more than 290,000 motorists drive on a learner permit in ...

Learner drivers who have not passed their driving test after seven years will be required to take additional driving lessons in order to go back on the road, under new Government proposals. The ...

Sir, – Your article on fatal road accidents involving learner permit holders needs to be put in perspective (“More than 80 per cent of learner drivers involved in fatal crashes since 2016 were driving ...

The Department of Transport has suggested legislating to restrict learner drivers to no more than four consecutive learner permits and to no more than two consecutive permits without having taken a ...

More than 120,000 long term learner permit holders who obtained their first licence between 1984 and 2016 have yet to pass a driving test, new figures show. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) said the ...

If a learner has not passed their test within seven years, they will be treated as a beginner and will be required to retake the theory test and twelve more driving lessons before they are allowed ...

A man who failed the driver theory test four times has been jailed after he forged a learner permit licence from a friend’s test results, a court has heard. Aaron Dunne (21) asked his friend to sit ...

Over 140 learner drivers have been caught cheating in theory tests over the past five years - by attempting to have others do the examination for them. A total of 28 people have been refused ...