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Insurance 'Green Card' no longer needed to drive in North in event of no-deal Brexit

It had previously been warned that the cards would be required after the UK left the EU.

IRISH MOTORISTS WILL no longer require a so-called ‘Green Card’ to drive Irish-registered vehicles in the UK, including the North, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) announced that it has struck a deal with the UK Department of Transport to accept Irish insurance discs as proof of insurance after the UK leaves the European Union. 

The card is an international document which shows proof that a motorist has the minimum level of car insurance required by a country they are visiting.

Currently, Irish-registered vehicles that travel within the EU are covered by the terms of the EU Motor Insurance Directive.

But ahead of the original Brexit date on 29 March, the MIBI warned motorists that they would require the Green Cards to travel to the North and the rest of the UK if a no-deal Brexit occurred.

That will no longer be the case, following a deal between the group and the UK’s Department of Transport, which MIBI Chief Executive David Fitzgerald hailed as ”really positive news”.

“Earlier this year a lot of concern was expressed about the insurance recognition issues raised by the evolving Brexit situation,” he said.

“Suddenly drivers were faced with a new requirement for Green Cards in light of the UK’s potential exit from the European Union without an agreement…

“Thankfully, the UK has now confirmed that valid insurance discs meet the requirements set out in UK legislation and so can be used as proof of motor insurance cover in the UK.

“Therefore, a more streamlined process will apply for Irish registered vehicles with valid insurance discs.”

However, motorists have been advised that Green Cards will still be required for UK-registered vehicles visiting European Union countries, including Ireland, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The cards will not be required if an agreement is reached between the UK and the EU on Brexit, or if a transitional arrangement is implemented.

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    Mute Ivor Hardy
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:33 PM

    I was a victim for ages before being made redundant and consequently being unemployed for 5 years. I promised myself that I would never work under duress again. When I finally did find a good job, my manger tried to mess with me one Monday morning only to find I wasn’t having it. I feked a box of files at him and told him to stuff his job and drove home. The company owner phoned me in the evening at home to apologise and asked me to come in for work the following morning. One meeting later the ground rules were laid out and I couldn’t be happier at my job today. This tactic may not work every time but I’d rather give it a shot then be bullied. Unemployment is bad and destroys you but a bully at work is much, much worse.

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    Mute lez ferguson
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:58 PM

    well done

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    Mute Scorpionvenomm
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    Oct 18th 2015, 2:18 PM

    FairPlay standing up for your self.

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    Mute Small Retort
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    Oct 18th 2015, 4:49 PM

    Advoctaing assault against a coworker? Weren’t you bullying him by physically intimidating him?

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    Mute Ann Glasgow
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    Oct 18th 2015, 8:29 PM

    @ ivor hardy well done and so glad things have worked out for you

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 18th 2015, 11:53 PM

    Nothing like a click of bullies, you will never come across a group of pathetic people as stupid as what a bully or bullies can be. It is everyone’s fault but not theirs with excuses, lies and passing the buck, why do companies employ them because some are pals of the head staff in many cases???

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    Mute Aideen Bowden
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    Oct 20th 2015, 1:09 PM

    Well done you.

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    Mute Sean Kelly
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:51 PM

    How common is bullying in the workplace? Very..

    On your first day, week, month even, the workplace bowzie takes a dislike to you and suddenly your isolated, worst still the manager who seems to like everyone is distant towards you.

    The policy I learned to work best time and time again is to get in, do the job and keep the head down. A shut mouth catches no flies as the saying goes..

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    Mute William Clay
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:21 PM

    Exactly Sean, it’s how I’ve always done it too. Be polite and pleasant, show up to a work night out from time to time but always leave early and never engage in office gossip. It works for me.

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    Oct 18th 2015, 2:05 PM

    It’s been an employers market too long. They know people really need their jobs. It’s a disgrace and the fines they get are too inconsequential to be an adherent. €20,000 might sound a lot but it’s not even a years salary for these jobs.

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    Mute Magoo
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    Oct 18th 2015, 2:06 PM

    excellent advice

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 19th 2015, 12:02 AM

    Yes but what if they pick on you because you won’t kiss their ars3 and do what they want you to do like dance and sing for them as well as to join in on bullying others for them… Some places are right holes to work in due to the click in them?

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    Mute skullduggery
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:52 PM

    How many bullied workers are out there who are not strong enough to make a complaint or do anything about it.
    I’d say it higher than 1 in 10.

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    Mute Ck2
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    Oct 18th 2015, 10:12 PM

    agree. the only problem is the employment appeals don’t tend to side with the victim

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 18th 2015, 11:55 PM

    Say you make a complaint to H.R. and then H.R. bullies you for making that complaint, what then, leave, you could leave and then sue them??? But what in the meanwhile?

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    Mute An Observer
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:34 PM

    Any chance of the Fianna Fáil story being reported on?

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    Mute Stephen Harding
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:36 PM

    That would require journalism

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    Mute Tomás Doyle
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:39 PM

    Stop bullying the reporter. Hardly his fault!

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    Mute Vote Left Ireland
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:41 PM

    All this is directed to the journal not any individual. although isn’t Hugh o connell the chief on all things politics? Yeno the guy with the FG fetish?

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:50 PM

    Here’s a crazy idea, if you don’t like it…. Write your own publication and report on whatever YOU like.

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    Mute An Observer
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:53 PM

    I was asking if there was any chance of the story being reported on. As in asking a question. You have a funny take on bullying.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:48 PM

    you are all just bullying Hugh !

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:57 PM

    And the schoolchild heckling another student responds with…

    ‘But Miss I was just asking him a question’

    I see you have the classic/bordering on cliche take on bullying.

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    Mute Paul Geraghty
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:02 PM

    Workplace bullying or bullying of any kind is digesting and cowardly. There are a % though who always play the victim and are always out to cause trouble and act as if the world is against them

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    Mute ConductingTheBus
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:11 PM

    I wouldn’t digest bullying, nor would I stand for it. I hate bullies.

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    Mute John Reese
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:33 PM

    Best way to catch a bully is to stand up to them. More often than not they are complete cowards themselves.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:50 PM

    true John but it’s a bit harder when it’s your manager in work .

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 19th 2015, 12:07 AM

    Paul those are called sociopaths…

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    Mute windbag
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:55 PM

    I was in a job once were there was a major bully in the firm ……so I put his nose out the back of his head ….he left very shortly after that and I was the office hero …..man it felt good..

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    Mute David Hefner
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    Oct 18th 2015, 3:39 PM

    Did you really hit him? How did you manage to get away with an office assault without being fired?

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    Mute JIMINYJELIKERS
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    Oct 18th 2015, 3:56 PM

    don’t mind him he’s a windbag

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    Oct 18th 2015, 9:40 PM

    I was in the job two months and I was to cute to hit him on the premises so I did it in a carpark….you see in that two months I had been chatting to my friends about this bully and they rightly said if you are going to hit him make sure its not on company property….. they were right….

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 19th 2015, 12:06 AM

    All bullies are cowards but once there is a click of them together then they act so big in front of each other and also make excuses for their own behaviour in order to keep doing it but get one by his or herself and they pee themselves…

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    Mute Blathnaid1986
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:38 PM

    The other 9 in 10 are suspected to be related to workers not being submissive enough

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    Mute Vote Left Ireland
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:38 PM

    Report on the Fianna Fail story and stop acting like a bought and paid for tabloid

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    Mute Denis O'Brien
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:19 PM

    Whats going on with FF

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    Mute Sgt Pepper
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    Oct 18th 2015, 2:17 PM

    What story? I don’t see any other publication running with a FF story today.

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    Mute Martin Gallagher
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:40 PM

    2.5 million €’s…..for an unfair dismissal, yikes! Must have been someone who knew something their boss would prefer them not to have known, me thinks?

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    Mute Right of Nigel
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:37 PM

    Remember the good old days when bullying policies were for children in the school yard? Imagine a grown adult claiming hes being bullied! Lol.

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    Mute Vote Left Ireland
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:39 PM

    imagine an online troll having the maturity to have a real account while pushing such regressive and divisive opinions.

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    Mute Right of Nigel
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:42 PM

    Hmm Vote Left Ireland? Super real account there chum. I’ll be sure to cross check my opinions with authentic Vote Left Ireland in future.

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:45 PM

    Indeed I’m with you. Fully grown adults shouldn’t allow themselves to be treated that way or let it be seen that someone’s childish behavior gets to them.

    But imagine another adult behaving like a child and trying to pick on one of their co-workers…

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    Mute Right of Nigel
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:48 PM

    Absolutely Drew but what used to be seen as work place banter could now be interpreted as harassment or bullying and straight off to the HR office with you. Adults are supposed to be able to discuss and resolve their issues with one another “like grown ups”…as the saying goes.

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Oct 18th 2015, 12:58 PM

    My theory is they never learned to as children… They’ve been wrapped up in cotton wool and had all their disagreements mediated by new age pseudo psychology parenting and since they were toddlers.

    Then they become teenagers and adults who can’t look back and see how childish it really was.

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    Mute Zandranalily
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    Oct 18th 2015, 3:45 PM

    Or they could be people who were bullied when young and then it is a thornier and more complex issue than simply standing up for yourself. Bullying is a psychological battlefield.

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    Mute Donnachaín Ní Uallacháin
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    Oct 18th 2015, 6:09 PM

    What about being left to complete the work of a whole team on your own and then being verbally abused and shouted at because it wasn’t completed on time?
    What about having your work stolen from you and being shouted at when you questioned it?
    What about being touched inappropriately and have lewd comments directed at you? Receiving sexually depraved texts all night long from your manager saying what they would do to you if they got you alone?
    What about being called a liar, a tease, lazy, a waste of space?
    Just a bit of banter?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 19th 2015, 12:09 AM

    You know there are psychopaths out there… 1 in 10 or 12 have a psychological problem, how many then make their problem others?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 19th 2015, 12:11 AM

    Drew many bullies are emotionally immature and that is why they bully…

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    Mute JIMINYJELIKERS
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    Oct 18th 2015, 3:57 PM

    there’s a lot of bullys in my job who pick on the quite lads and I bully the bullys

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    Mute Suzanne Bell
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    Oct 18th 2015, 10:00 PM

    I was bullied by manager in a job I was in, she was there 20 yrs, me nearly 3, only small herb business in the markets, 7 of us working there, but if you didn’t agree with her or laugh at what she said, your workday was made miserable, I tried telling one of the owners about her carry on but it was her word over mine, as for the other cowards who were all mouthy behind her back, not one of them backed up what I told the owner, oh yeah I left a job that I was working in for 4 yrs to start this one, and the bullying manager was my cousin,

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    Mute Martin Gallagher
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    Oct 18th 2015, 7:52 PM

    Any workplace is far better off without it’s bullies no matter how clever or forceful they sometimes make themselves out to be. In my experience, bully’s are bad employees whose main objective is to spread dissent and manipulate others for their own perverse amusement rather than actually doing their own work properly.
    Best way to deal with the problem is for all businesses to have a clear anti bullying policy. Each case to be investigated and even if not proven at least flagged. Eventually a pattern may begin to appear and the culprit kicked out.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 19th 2015, 12:15 AM

    What if the managerial staff are friends of the bullies, the ould click is alive and well in many places. Bullies can bully and get away with it if they can excuse the bullying and that is normally slandering and telling lies about their victims in order to keep bullying…

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    Mute Alfie Bonney
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    Oct 18th 2015, 1:41 PM

    Grown man or woman getting bullied give it a rest, stand up and squash bully heads and stop bitching

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    Mute Sgt Pepper
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    Oct 18th 2015, 2:31 PM

    Depends on the situation you’re in. The only thing between you being able to pay a mortgage or rent and not being able to do it, is your job. That gives employers an enormous power and responsibility.

    On the other hand, yeah, I kinda agree a grown adult should be able to sort it out a lot of the time. The more pampered the profession the more wimpy the employees

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    Mute Alfie Bonney
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    Oct 18th 2015, 2:55 PM

    Choice between bills and self esteem, depends on the person I would choose the latter

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