Over 8,000 cars fail NCT at local test centres in first 5 months of the year

Over 8,000 cars failed the NCT in the Shannonside region in the first five months of this year. The statistics were made available on the official NCT website. Just over 19,000 tests were carried out in test centres in Carrick-on-Shannon, Castlerea and Longford from January to May. Castlerea had the highest pass rate in the region at 47.78 per cent.

That's followed by Carrick-on-Shannon at 46.47 per cent, while Longford recorded 45.13 per cent. Across the three centres, there were 1,568 dangerous failures. Carrick-on-Shannon recorded the highest amount of those, at 600.