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		<title>Technology skids in to prevent accidents</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/12/technology-skids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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We all take the brakes in our car for granted. We expect them to work perfectly, especially if we need them in an emergency. So it’s no surprise that they’re a part of the vehicle that&#8217;s overworked &#8211; the average driver uses their brakes an estimated 75,000 times a year.
Advances in technology through the years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadside Motor Rescue Angels</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/11/motor-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2509</guid>
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After  a long day of Christmas shopping you’re heading home with presents piled high in the car. The rain is streaming down, the wind is blowing, and you’d rather be in sitting beside a nice warm fire. But suddenly your car starts acting up. The battery light is flashing &#8211; disaster has well and truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to school- How to keep your kids safe in the car</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/08/children-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/08/children-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2386</guid>
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Summer is officially over – not that it was much of a summer! And for many parents it’s time to start back out on the road as an unpaid chauffeur doing the school run.
Keeping your children safe in the car is a top priority for every parent. But even if you think you’re doing everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to reduce the stress of your driving test</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/08/driving-test/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/08/driving-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2363</guid>
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Leaving Cert results, CAO offers, plans for the next few years of your life&#8230;for thousands of students all over Ireland it’s been a nervous, stressful couple of weeks.
As you take your first steps in the ‘real world’ outside of school, getting your full drivers licence may well be the next thing on your To Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Classic Day Out! &#8211; at the AXA Classic car show 3rd July</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/07/classic-car/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/07/classic-car/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2227</guid>
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If you’re mad about cars or feel like a having a fun day out this weekend, look no further than the Annual Irish Classic and Vintage Motor Show! This unique event, which is sponsored by AXA and organised by the Irish Jaguar and Daimler Club, takes place this Sunday 3rd July from 11am to 6pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now you&#8217;re sucking diesel!</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/06/sucking-diesel/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/06/sucking-diesel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
Fuel prices have soared to an all time high over the last 10 years. The days of filling up a tank for 90 cent a litre are in the distant past. We all know too well now that any claims that house prices would keep on rising were pie in the sky. Petrol, on the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Rain – a driver’s pain</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/05/summer-rain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/05/summer-rain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2188</guid>
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It’s that time of the year we all love &#8211; summertime! But the Irish summer is a temperamental, unpredictable creature. We might get two, even three glorious weeks of hot, sunny weather, but then, just as we’re getting used to wandering around in shorts and t-shirts and starting to believe that it could actually last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distractions of the heart</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/05/distraction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/05/distraction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.axa.ie/?p=2172</guid>
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Forget about phones and iPods, passengers are increasingly becoming dangerous driving distractions. Whether you’re flirting or fighting with your girlfriend or boyfriend, having a laugh with your mates or even catching a quick snack while behind the wheel, make sure to keep your attention on the road ahead.
According to a survey carried out by Confused.com, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving to a different beat</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/05/driving-musi/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/05/driving-musi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 06:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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We’re all into different types of music – you might enjoy rocking away on your trusty old air guitar to a bit of AC/DC, while I might prefer singing along to Jedward’s latest musical ‘creation’. I said might. Maybe you’re even that rarest of creatures – an Enya fan. But what you probably didn’t realise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Motorway Madness</title>
		<link>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/04/motorway-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.axa.ie/2011/04/motorway-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PauricL</dc:creator>
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It sounds like something you’d only see in an action movie – a motorist speeding headlong into oncoming traffic on a busy motorway. But apparently this crazy sight isn’t as rare as you’d think.
In fact, according to Road Safety Authority chief executive Noel Brett, high-risk incidents of motorists driving the wrong direction down motorways have [...]]]></description>
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