Author: Padraic Deane

Nominations for the 2025 Irish Auto Trade Awards are now open. You can nominate entries for both multiple businesses in the comprehensive Distributor Awards and/or the Retail Awards here.

Volkswagen Commercials has revealed the new 2024 Crafter van, which will see pre-sales start in most European markets in a few weeks’ time.

Time is really moving along. There are now seven months to go to Ireland’s one and only auto and transport industries aftermarket exhibition.

This news caught my attention. A leading UK facilities transformation company, Mitie, has ordered 650 converted all-electric ID. Buzz Cargo vans, which will join its growing fleet of 4,000 electric vehicles.

Blackwater Motors Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has announced its official partnership with the Cork Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) for a fourth consecutive season.

Ford Pro has introduced its new Transit Connect compact van, completing the brand’s new-generation line-up of high-productivity electrified Transit commercial vehicles in Europe.

The all-new Ford Transit Courier is on its way to Irish showrooms and will go on sale in March, with ordering now available.

It is officially CV Workshop EXPO year, with the largest commercial vehicle aftermarket exhibition in Ireland returning to the RDS Simmonscourt in Dublin from 12th-13th October.

Provisional road traffic collision figures show that the number of road deaths in 2023 increased by an inexcusable 19 per cent compared to 2022.

Toll charges on a number of roads across Ireland were increased as of yesterday (1st January), in what is the second such price rise in the last 12 months.

The CV Workshop EXPO 2024 promises to be the biggest of its kind to ever take place on the island of Ireland.