Some 85 of the country's 106 NCT vehicle lifts have been found to be in need of repair.

The National Car Testing Service says underbody vehicle inspections will resume this week at eight nationwide test centres.

If you listened to Grant Henderson, the top guy on the radio this week, you would think the NCT has handled their scissor lift problem in exemplary fashion.

The NCT is urging drivers to continue booking and turning up for tests as normal.

The NCT has suspended the use of lifts at its 47 test centres around the country due to concerns over cracking.

The latest annual review of the performance of NCT centres reveals that 64 out of 2,586 reviews of test results during 2018 were rated poor or unacceptable.

Sean McCarthaigh (Irish Examiner January 15) that during last year, 1 in 15 cars were classified as dangerous following inspection at the country's NCT centres.

One in every 15 cars submitted for the National Car Test last year were found to be dangerously defective and unsafe to be driven on public roads.

If there is an area in which an argument for more, not less, harmonisation of regulations across the European Union, it’s the one that can be made for a change that would give drivers the best possible guarantee that when they buy a car of four years and older is in a roadworthy condition.

The firm that operates the National Car Test last year clocked up weekly revenues of €1.52m.

More than 37,000 cars that underwent the NCT last year were deemed unsafe for the road, new figures show.

Owners of older cars are facing paying higher insurance, despite holding recent NCT certificates, the managing director of an online broker has said.

I’m fed up being confronted by employees of companies with their hand out looking for money for extras. Whether its your phone network, your electricity supplier, or your going out shopping for daily necessities, all shops’ prices on everything seem like a bouncy castle — one day it’s up, the next it’s down.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates the National Car Test (NCT) last year skidded by 16% as fewer tests were carried out.

The Government has agreed to examine proposals for an NCT-style test for rented accommodation in the wake of a shocking exposé on overcrowded and dangerous private housing for tenants.

Kerry’s rural readers will be reduced to getting books once a month — after one of the county’s mobile library vans failed its NCT.

More than half of all vehicles booked in for the NCT last year failed to make the grade.

Mechanics at NCT centres say the number of 'dangerous' cars they're seeing is on the rise.

A mother whose daughter died while driving a defective car has pleaded with road safety chiefs to overhaul the NCT system.

Three men have pleaded guilty to a single count of forgery in relation to the passing of NCT tests.

An Garda Síochána say it is carrying out a review of prosecutions relating to fixed charge offences, after it emerged that some drivers were fined multiple times for having no NCT certificate.

A bereaved mother whose daughter died while driving a defective car has launched a petition to change a key part of the National Car Test (NCT).

The operator of the National Car Test centres has been criticised for conducting “a sham investigation” into the complaints of an employee who threatened to expose regular breaches of the company’s rules at one of its centres in Cork.