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Driving lessons Athea
What Athea lessons involve
Booking driving lessons in Athea gets you one-hour lessons with an Approved Driving Instructor, collected from an agreed point and dropped back there. You prepare for Newcastle West or Tralee, whichever gives you the better date.
Collected where you live
Your instructor comes to your home, school or job in Athea, so you never need a lift to Newcastle West just to start. The pick-up is part of the price.
Dual controls, RSA-approved ADI
Lessons are taught by an Approved Driving Instructor in a car with dual controls. It means you can practise crossing Athea Bridge early on with backup beside you.
No raised voices
Lessons stay calm from start to finish, and nervous learners set the pace. If a stretch of road makes you tense, you go back over it until it does not.
Told honestly when you are ready
Before you book a test in Newcastle West or Tralee, you get a straight answer about your readiness. If something is missing, we name it.
Your choice of car
Manual and automatic lessons are both taught. An automatic pass means code 78 and automatic cars only, while a manual pass lets you drive both.
Say what you need
Prefer a female instructor? Tell us when you enquire, along with anything else that would help, and we bear it in mind when we match you.
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Choose your transmission
Manual driving lessons Athea
Manual lessons in Athea begin close to home with the controls: moving off, the clutch, the gears and stopping where you mean to. After a few hours, junctions and turns come in, followed by reversing and the other manoeuvres. Lessons then cover more ground, taking in Oolagh Bridge and Athea Bridge and building up speed control on longer drives. Toward the end, your instructor plans the hours around the area of the centre you have chosen, so test standard feels normal by the time you sit it.
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Learn in an automatic
Automatic driving lessons Athea
Automatic driving lessons in Athea are the simpler start if gears worry you. You learn the same observation and road position, and you sit the same test. The licence is where the two differ. Pass in an automatic and the licence shows code 78, so you may drive automatics only. A manual pass has no such limit. We confirm automatic times for Athea when you enquire.
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Prices
Athea lesson prices
Our prices are the same in Athea as in Newcastle West or Listowel, and pick-up from your agreed point is in every one.
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Just getting started
EDT lessons in Athea
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Anyone learning on a permit must finish 12 Essential Driver Training lessons with an Approved Driving Instructor before sitting the test. We collect you in Athea for each one, and your instructor signs your logbook at the end of every lesson.
You do not need to know what each lesson covers before you start, because your instructor brings the plan. If you already hold a licence from some other countries, you may qualify for six lessons instead of 12. Taken in a manual car, the full EDT course costs €587.95.
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The EDT guide ↗
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Getting ready for the test
Test centres from Athea
Your nearest centre is Newcastle West, 22.5 km by road and about 25 minutes from Athea. Tralee in County Kerry is the next option, 41.9 km and about 40 minutes. Castlemungret, about 55 minutes, and Killarney, about 60, are far enough that they suit only if the nearer two have no date.
Whichever you pick, the pretest is a one-hour lesson in the area around that centre, shortly before your test, with the car hired for the test included. The manual version costs €183.63, the automatic €193.81. On the day, you drive a car you already know well from your Athea lessons.
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Newcastle West test centre Nearest
25 min22.5 km by road
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Limerick (Castlemungret) test centre
55 min57.9 km by road
01Get your learner permit
02Fill in the form
03We match your instructor
Preparing for the test ↗
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Learning in Athea
Learning on the roads around Athea
The first hour stays near the point you were collected from, getting used to the car. Over the following lessons the drives grow longer, with Athea Bridge and Oolagh Bridge among the early roads you cross. New skills come one at a time, and each lesson starts by going over the last.
In Athea, the pick-up is simply your home, your school or your workplace, agreed when you book. Your instructor drops you back at the same point, or at another agreed one if that helps your day, at no extra cost.
We also teach in Listowel and Tarbert over the Kerry border, 13.4 km and 13.6 km from Athea in a straight line, and in Newcastle West, 16.1 km away. Learners in each of those are collected in their own town.
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EDT and the test
The EDT: a guide
Each signature in your EDT logbook stands for one finished lesson. In Athea, you collect all 12 from lessons that start at your own pick-up point. Once they are in, your instructor gives you a plain answer about the test: book it now, or work on a named skill first.
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Athea questions
A few good questions
Do I have to get to Newcastle West for lessons?
No. Your instructor collects you in Athea and the lesson starts there. Only the later lessons and your pretest move toward the area around your test centre, and you travel there in the lesson car.
Can I sit my test in Tralee instead?
Yes. Tralee is about 40 minutes from Athea by road, against about 25 for Newcastle West, so it is a sensible choice if it has an earlier date. Tell us which centre you applied for, and your pretest is planned there.
Could I give someone in Athea lessons as a present?
Yes. Vouchers come as 1, 3, 6 or 12 lessons, in manual or automatic. The person receiving one is collected in Athea from an agreed point like any other learner.
How do I start with a driving instructor in Athea?
The theory test comes first, and the NDLS then issues your learner permit. When it arrives, send the form on this page or call 021 2355558, and we match you with an Approved Driving Instructor who collects you in Athea.
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Get started in Athea
Tell us whether home, school or work in Athea is the easiest place to collect you, by phone on 021 2355558 or through the form.
