{"id":75220,"date":"2025-09-20T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75220\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:02:09","slug":"transport-minister-writes-to-new-york-governor-seeking-reciprocal-driving-licence-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75220\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Minister writes to New York governor seeking reciprocal driving licence agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The complex move is expected to take time. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9a2dcfb1-208b-4418-b991-8f9e16d665e7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The complex move is expected to take time. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien has formally written to New York governor to request that the state look to introduce reciprocal driving licences between New York and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Challenges around driving licences for Irish citizens moving home after being in the US has become a major issue as US licences are not recognised in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The complex move is expected to take time. Photo: Getty Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien has formally written to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13458,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5765,5,44,30656,7,8,4913,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-75220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-darragh-obrien","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-micheal-martin","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-simon-harris","21":"tag-tabitha-monahan","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-united-nations","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}