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Transport Minister Eamon Ryan with one of the new green 'flash' plates Department of Transport

New registration plates announced for zero emissions vehicles

Sales of electric vehicles in Ireland have been falling year-on-year.

DRIVERS OF ZERO emissions vehicles will now have a special registration plate, similar to a regular plate but with a green ‘flash’.

Countries that have adopted a similar initiative include the UK, Germany, and Norway where plates either have the green flash, the letter ‘E’ for electric, or a green badge or border.

Irish drivers looking to be eligible for the new plate must drive a vehicle that emits zero emissions at the tailpipe. This includes full battery electric vehicles and, in the future, fuel cell hydrogen vehicles.

The green ‘flash’ plates will not be mandatory, but all types of vehicles such as cars, motorbikes, vans, buses and trucks which are zero emission at the tailpipe will be allowed to carry one.

The initiative will be introduced in 2025.

Transport Minister Eamon Ryan said it “works really well” in other countries.

“Drivers like it and it’s a great way of tracking the ongoing move to electric on our roads,” he said.

“It will allow businesses to show leadership on transport emissions and help us visualise our zero emission future.”

Meanwhile, sales of electric vehicles in Ireland have fallen for a ninth consecutive month as year-on-year sales continue to decline.

In October of this year, 529 new electric vehicles were registered in Ireland, a 16% decrease compared to the same period on 2023. So far in 2024, there has a been a decrease in sales of approximately 25% compared with last year.

Electric vehicles currently account for almost 14% of the automobile market in Ireland.

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    Mute Ruairi Gagarin
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:32 PM

    Does this mean he’ll now be appearing on an Irish stamp, as part of the ‘Che Guevara and bedfellows’ series?

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    Mute Casper
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:39 PM

    @Ruairi Gagarin: with all that green he is wearing he should definitely make an Irish stamp lol

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    Mute Ruairi Gagarin
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:48 PM

    @Casper: Ha! Sure, isn’t he just an African Eamon De Valera?

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    Mute Paul Coughlan
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:06 PM

    @Ruairi Gagarin: insulting to de Valera. He was our leader after all.

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    Mute Harry Whitehead
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 11:15 PM

    @Paul Coughlan: Thatcher was my leader – think I should leap to her defence if someone insults her? Someone being your leader should never render them immune from criticism.

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    Mute Paul MacNulty
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:40 PM

    THE HEAD OF the World Health Organization (WHO) should be FIRED.

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    Mute Jane
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:56 PM

    @Paul MacNulty: what was he thinking? Of all the possibilities out there how would you even come up with Mugabe for such a role?

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    Mute Paul MacNulty
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:23 PM

    @Jane: I don’t know, you would have to ask Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus the boss directly.

    WHO’s work is about serving people, about serving humanity. Most importantly, it’s about fighting to ensure the health of people as a basic human right.
    -Dr Tedros

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    Mute Stephen murphy
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 3:54 PM

    @Jane: Politics, had to be and no-one in their right mind would consider it.

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    Mute Paul Coughlan
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:07 PM

    @Paul MacNulty: agreed

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    Mute john g mcgrath
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:12 PM

    @Paul MacNulty: One head case appointing another head case nothing has changed in Africa it’s still a shit hole and getting worse

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    Mute Universal Soldier
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:43 PM

    Who’s brainwave was that in first place? While you are at it, appoint Bertie Aherne to the World Bank.

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    Mute JimmyMc
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:49 PM

    @Universal Soldier: well they did vote Saudi Arabia onto the UN women’s rights council, so you never know

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:48 PM

    @Universal Soldier: part of the UN family, how can we take anything the UN says seriously. They are well on their way to irrelevancy, a bunch of buffoons.

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    Mute Paul Coughlan
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:08 PM

    @Universal Soldier: ahearn. He couldn’t be appointed to the world bank. He hasn’t a bank account

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:46 PM

    @Paul Coughlan: Yes…. I think that was the joke made by Universal Soldier.

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    Mute lavbeer
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 6:10 PM

    @Universal Soldier: too much of a socialist for that – his raising of all things financial for government and social is the main reason of our issues

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    Mute Lee Mac Eoghain
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:49 PM

    Next they will give Obama a Nobel peace prize! Oh wait…..

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    Mute Honeybadger197
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:57 PM

    @Lee Mac Eoghain: I think we’re well beyond the “oh wait…” jokes at this stage.

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    Mute Karen Wellington
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:59 PM

    @Lee Mac Eoghain: 100% agree, the UN is over-stepping the mark handing out Nobel Prizes

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    Mute Conor Sheehan
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:35 PM

    About time. One day is one day too many for a man like him.

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    Mute Jay Lane
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 4:41 PM

    Simon Harris you should want to help the 700,000 citizens on hospital waiting lists, the vast majority of whom have no means to buy their way out of queues and into the life saving timely treatment in the FG adorsed private health insurance and private system. So because a lot of citizens are poor their punishment is to die on an increasing by the minute hospital list Simon that’s you and Leo’s legacy so far but FG reward failed ministers with top jobs like Leo and Coveney got for their utter failings in housing and health.
    Simon, your brother is all over the Telly and radio since you became minister while the thousands worst off than him have no services or any nepotism help. Simon fix our our health system before commenting like Leo just commentated on every other countries problems.

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    Mute John Mc Grath
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:42 PM

    So the UN has put Saudi Arabia in charge of women’s rights and now the WHO appoints Robert Mugabe as good will ambassador!!! Why not finish it off and put the Catholic Church in charge of child welfare. Can anyone tell the difference between reality and satire anymore?

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    Mute Andre le Flohic
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 3:58 PM

    @John Mc Grath: well you know that if you hate something but become responsible of it ….. you cannot do what you want really because of the social pressure ….ie the modern medias

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:42 PM

    They gotta get rid of the open bar at these meetings…

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:46 PM

    There is no way that the WHO can be taken seriously again.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 1:39 PM

    The Brits awarded him a knighthood for allowing British companies,tory party benefactors to pillage Zimbabwes national resources,shameful.

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    Mute Honeybadger197
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:33 PM

    @joe oneill: “The Brits”, under John Major, awarded him an honorary knighthood in 1994 – probably to secure favourable trading terms. They rescinded it in 2008, due to his human rights violations and anti-democratic practices. Funny how you left that last bit out.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 3:47 PM

    @Honeybadger197: the people,Diarmuid you deem to be royalty,the Germanic Windsors,the folks you bend the knee to,tug your forelock to, has had Mugabe around at their gaff in London for tea parties and dinners,obviously some British companies are still making a few bucks out of the pillaging and rape of Zimbabwe.Has your government ever closed Mugabes London bank accounts or seized any of the tyrants London properties …like feck they have,noses still firmly entrenched in the trough.
    Tick tock /

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:26 PM

    @joe oneill: Aw, the little guy is so upset that he’s been called for telling half truths that he’s thrown all of his toys of the pram. Do you always react like this? Building deflectionary strawman arguments is however sadly typical of folk who share your ‘views’. Just tell the whole story next time and you won’t need to hide your prejudice with lies. ” Good lad” :)

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 6:03 PM

    @George Harvey: Relax in the pants Britshit

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 6:33 PM

    @Honeybadger197: Why are you ashamed of your British loyalist background,why do you need to tell lies here,continously about your nationality and background?Feck that,whoring yourself,beliefs for a few green thumbs.
    Sevco 0 Motherwell 2.

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    Mute Honeybadger197
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 6:49 PM

    @joe oneill: Still peddling your nonsense? Its genuinely quite sad that, in order to facilitate your own argument (indeed, your sense of self), you feel it necessary to build these little strawmen. Is this how you think: ‘Honeybadger called me out about telling half truths, therefore he must be: 1. not irish. 2. love the queen. 3. a rangers supporter? What a dour world view you drag here with you. You have my pity.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 7:25 PM

    @Honeybadger197: the Journal is your world,sir.

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    Mute Ashley Brown
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:15 PM

    This is what happens where you assign the Director of the WHO to a political appointee rather than to an appointee based upon merit. Mugabe’s appointment was also political and not on merit. We’ve seen what the result has been. What is democratic about the destruction of a country and a continent for the benefit of a few dozen henchmen who have Panamanian and Swiss bank accounts? They care nothing for their own countrymen but focus upon the rape and pillage of their countries. They direct money laundering, extortion and tax fraud upon their people. Then their people are left to take the risky journey to Europe at the mercy of people traffickers.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:14 PM

    I give up,WHO?

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    Mute Noel James Doherty
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:30 PM

    @Tedser: world hypocrisy organisation

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    Mute John003
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:34 PM

    When Africian countrues get independence the leader of the independence movement often takes over….Problem seems to be their tribal party never loose power…There is never a change of government….Kenya Zimbawee South Africa with the ANC…..Bit like if we had Fianna Fail in power since De Valera won the 1932 election..
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    Mute Deano Cracow
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 3:18 PM

    Anyone who sees the UN as anything other then a cronyist, cynical, sanctimonious talking shop is deluded. Sometimes they serve a useful purpose in a post conflict situation with the deployment of peace keeping forces. Even they are normally ridiculously expensive.

    What next Kim Jong Un as head the non nuclear proliferation agency.

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    Mute Catherine Sims
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:31 PM

    Hmmmm this is very strange indeed. I hope this was just a mistake and not corruption.

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    Mute Brian O Reilly
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 2:47 PM

    Should have sent him as a Goodwill Ambassador to a E U Country and arrested him for genocide.

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    Mute Johnnie Sexton
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 4:34 PM

    Harris, you’d be better off sorting out the mess that is the HSE and you’re department in general before you stick your nose in the running of other countries (bad as they may be). At present neither you nor your party are accomplishing much.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 4:22 PM

    This is nearly as bad as putting Simon ,Mr Burns , harris in charge of the HSE.

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    Mute Terry Cahill
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 6:00 PM

    It would indicate that the WHO despite it’s work is not in touch with the real world. Other than that is either a ploy or corruption . As regards honours being bestowed upon Mugabe and then withdrawn or rescinded , one can easily think of THAT WOMAN in Myanmar who was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and is now denying that a genocide is taking place under her watch, even accepting that the military still have real power. She, Aung San Suu Kyi, who said she would only run in the elections “ should her people need her “

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    Mute Matt Donovan
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 3:51 PM

    Mugabe is a right mad b’stard to be honest. Amazing he’s still alive.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 8:06 PM

    Price of a loaf of bread to increase to 324,000 Zimbabwean dollars following this news .

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    Mute Kevin Barry
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 4:27 PM

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes is sounding out Donald John Trump for the role.

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    Mute Mo
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    Oct 22nd 2017, 9:47 PM

    Oh it’s ok sure haven’t they’ve bowed to pressure and rescinded it, NO at this stage it’s about the fact that they actually believed it was a good choice in the first place! Don’t let them away with it the same way Ireland got away more or less untarnished after voting the Saudi role – we demand equality but it doesn’t really run too deeply when it comes to our own shower.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 3:55 PM

    as I am often a little bit pervert I think that maybe -maybe- the nomination was given knowing perfectly what would be the reactions all over the world which would imply that the nomination would be withdrawn naturally immediately but in the meantime something has been obtained which we will never know … maybe only the right to check the health status of his people … who knows ???

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 10:27 PM

    @Andre le Flohic: That is what I think. The humiliation he now suffers is exactly what he had coming to him.

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    Oct 22nd 2017, 5:46 PM

    What sort of moron would appoint mugabe as an ambassador.. remove this clown from whatever position he holds.

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    Mute Blackwater
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    Oct 23rd 2017, 6:02 AM

    This award is like saying Hilter was a Goodwill Ambassador.
    Mugabe is openly racist.
    A thief.
    A lier.
    A murderer.
    But no way ever any “Goodwill Ambassador”

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