Our resident learner driver has gone from dread to confidence in eight weeks

At 32, Irish Examiner journalist Conall Ó Fátharta decided to grab life by the steering wheel and learn to drive. Eight weeks on, just how far down the road is he?

If I’ve learned one thing about driving lessons, it’s that they are all about your pre-lesson and post-lesson emotions.

Slowly, but surely, I am working my range back from the extremes of fear and euphoria to a more normal adult range.