Grabbing life by the steering wheel and learning to drive in your thirties

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

It’s time to start being a little honest with myself and those of you out there that may have looked to me in your thirties as a beacon of hope as a non driver.

My initial burst of enthusiasm has been recently been replaced by the dreaded word of any football manager — complacency. To use a driving pun — I had stalled.