35 years ago today, the halfpenny coin is abolished and Ireland switches car registration plates to the new YYYY-County-Number format.

6 comments

  1. The halfpenny wasn’t very common by 1987 but I vaguely remember adding them up to buy penny sweets. I also remember that the number plates used to have different regs for cities and counties outside of Dublin as well as TN and TS for Tipperary.

  2. The old number plate system was a bit mental. ZB, ZX, and IF were all used in Cork, maybe a few others too. They’d start at AZB001 and just keep going from there BZB, CZB and so on.

  3. They should have left the number system the was it was with Year-county-number.
    Feck this 1 and 2 shit for each half of the year.

  4. Local shop when I was very young used to sell half penny sweets, little toffee chocolate covered ones. Have a few half pennies stored away still and farthings (quarter pennies) but they were before my time.

  6. I think our license plate format is the best in the world. I don’t like not being able to see the year when in other countries

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