Mary in the driver’s seat with training academy (13/06/2012)

WE’RE taking a slightly different tack on the car front this week and having a look at a unique driver training facility in west Cork which is the realisation of a dream of a very unique woman.

Mother of four Mary Keohane, from just outside Bantry, was, like so many other thousands of parents, faced with the prospect of her children learning to drive without any real formal training, but she decided to do something about it. “It was my second girl and I was thinking to myself: ‘she’s the height of danger; she’s a lethal weapon without any proper training.’”

So, first off Mary became an Advanced Driving Instructor in her own right, and spent two years researching what it would take to establish a state-of-the-art learning facility where people could properly learn to drive.