{"id":6265,"date":"2011-06-23T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:23:38","slug":"irish-learner-fails-to-get-test-result-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6265","title":{"rendered":"Irish Learner Fails to get Test Result Reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This is a very, very old article.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same story is covered in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/courts\/brakes-put-on-bid-to-reverse-10th-failed-driving-test-2802307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Independent - Failed Bid to Reverse Test Fail Result\">I<span style=\"color: #800000;\">ndependent<\/span><\/a> and The Irish Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 61-year old plasterer, Raymond Hefferman, has failed 10 tests since 2004. The Irish system means he can still drive on a provisional licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hefferman took his latest result to a district court in an attempt to have the result reversed. His examiner\/instructor on test recorded 26 faults, which included driving straight through a STOP sign and through a mini-roundabout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also failed to signal, ignored instructions, over-revved, and didn&#8217;t check around him properly (his observations were &#8220;particularly poor&#8221;, said the examiner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, after being told where to go on the mini-roundabout, Hefferman drove straight over it and then said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>So where is this mini roundabout? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>His defence seemed to rest solely on the fact that he has been driving for 44 years (I&#8217;ve mentioned previously how lax the Irish system used to be &#8211; and yet Irish drivers can come over to the UK or any other EU territory and drive without hindrance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was his seventh appeal against a result! He said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>this injustice had gone on long enough. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been blacklisted by driving testers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Judge, Tim Lucey,&nbsp;said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>If one Grade 3 fault is enough to fail, then five is plenty. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the test was properly conducted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Way to go, Judge. We need people like you over here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very, very old article. The same story is covered in the Independent and The Irish Times. The 61-year old plasterer, Raymond Hefferman, has failed 10 tests since 2004. The Irish system means he can still drive on a provisional licence. Hefferman took his latest result to a district court in an attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}