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THOUSANDS of the country’s most reckless drivers are escaping penalty points because of a legal loophole.

Motorists convicted in court of some of the most serious road traffic offences are not having points applied to their licences, the Irish Independent has learned.

This is because court clerks are not recording the guilty drivers’ licence numbers and sending them to the Road Safety Authority (RSA), which is the body charged with applying the points.


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