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07 Oct 2025

Free tractor safety course for teenagers is back at Limerick Show

Parents who would like to sign up their teenage boys and girls are asked to get in touch ahead of Sunday's event in Limerick Racecourse

Free tractor safety course  for teenagers is back at Limerick Show

John Macnamara, Elaine Houlihan, Richard O'Regan, Garda Mark O'Mahony, Debbie O'Carroll, Martin Brosnan and Joey O'Donoghue at the Limerick Show last year

AN ADVANCED tractor course for teenagers is back at Limerick Show on Sunday, August 24  by popular demand.

The aim of the  course is to help save lives and make the roads a safer place following a number of machinery-related incidents involving young drivers in recent years.

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Courses, organised by John Macnamara and Richard O'Regan, were held in Kilmallock Mart before it was held during Limerick Show at the racecourse last year.

There was positive feedback from participants and parents.

The free event at Limerick Show will feature practical tractor driving experience as well as tractor driving theory. 

Parents of teens are asked to register their interest by emailing tractorsafetylimerick@gmail.com

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