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No-one likes paying bills especially when they are compulsory. Motor insurance is a classic grudge purchase. It is resented and resisted. People tend not to have any loyalty to a particular company and will do whatever they can to lower the cost.

No-one likes paying bills especially when they are compulsory. Motor insurance is a classic grudge purchase. It is resented and resisted. People tend not to have any loyalty to a particular company and will do whatever they can to lower the cost.

A man who drove home from a funeral because he was less drunk than the owner of the car, has been disqualified for two years for drink driving and convicted of having no insurance.

A Latvian national who brought a rare giggle to the courtroom when he told the judge he was “from Moate”, was nonetheless banned from driving for a further three years and fined €1,000 after being convicted in Athlone District Court this week (July 13) of driving without insurance or a licence.

A Westport man with seven previous convictions for driving without insurance, caught driving his wife’s car whilst on a 15-year driving ban, avoided a jail sentence from the District Court in Athlone, after Judge Seamus Hughes continued in his practice of offering community service where appropriate.

A disqualified, uninsured driver has been jailed for four months after the van he was driving collided with another vehicle, resulting in the death of a four-year-old boy.

A woman from Moate, banned from driving but caught without insurance in Athlone, told the court she did so because her child, who was with her mother in Mullingar, was sick and had to be brought to the doctors, was disqualified for a further three years and warned.