{"id":374085,"date":"2025-08-26T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374085\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:53:09","slug":"northern-ireland-drivers-paying-hundreds-more-for-car-cover-swann-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374085\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland drivers paying hundreds more for car cover, Swann warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The data underline the problem. CompareNI reported average premiums of \u00a3599 in Northern Ireland in Q1 2025, though Confused.com put the figure higher at \u00a3852, above the UK average of \u00a3757. Hellosafe estimated an even wider gap, with Northern Ireland at \u00a3931 compared with \u00a3774 nationally. The Belfast Telegraph recently reported average premiums breaking \u00a31,000 for the first time, compared with \u00a3995 across the UK. Younger drivers face the steepest costs, with 17\u201324 year olds paying close to \u00a31,500 on average, according to CompareNI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The data underline the problem. CompareNI reported average premiums of \u00a3599 in Northern Ireland in Q1 2025, though&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[100900,1144,15720,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-374085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-abi","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-robin-swann","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115093281539525592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}