Learn the RSA way you'll pass fast and pay less doing it.
Most Portlaoise learners start in a manual, and passing in one covers you for manual and automatic cars. The first lessons stay on quieter streets like Hynes Square. Once the clutch stops being the main event, we move out to James Fintan Lalor Avenue.
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Automatic takes the clutch out of it, which helps on James Fintan Lalor Avenue at busy times. A test passed in an automatic gives a Code 78 licence, limited to automatic cars. Same instructor, same free pick-up in Portlaoise.
Book automatic lessons ↗Once you're matched, your lessons sit on our booking platform. You see what's next, move a lesson when you need to, and get a reminder before each one.
Before you sit the driving test you need all twelve EDT lessons, each one stamped in your logbook. Your Portlaoise instructor works through them in order, starting on Hynes Square and building up to James Fintan Lalor Avenue.
By the last few lessons you're driving the roads around the Portlaoise test centre, so the approach is familiar long before the day itself.
Once the EDT is done, it's on to test preparation. The nearest centre to Portlaoise is Portlaoise, 0.7 km and about 2 minutes by road. Pretest lessons run on the roads around it, and you sit the test in the car you practised in. If Tullamore has an earlier date, we cover those routes too.
Because not all Portlaoise driving schools are made equal. Our County Laois instructors cover Portlaoise and the towns around it, including Mountmellick, Mountrath and Stradbally. Pick-up is free from home, work or college, or meet us near Market Square.
Choose your county ↗
Essential Driver Training is twelve set lessons with an Approved Driving Instructor. Some foreign licence holders qualify for a reduced six. In Portlaoise the course runs from your door, and the later lessons take in the Portlaoise test routes.
The EDT: a guide ↗ Preparation for the driving test ↗The closest is Portlaoise, about 0.7 km by road from Portlaoise. Tullamore and Carlow are the next closest if their dates come up sooner.
A single manual lesson is €53.27. The full 12-lesson EDT package is €587.95, which works out at €49.00 a lesson. Automatic runs from €61.41. Full prices are on our pricing page.
Yes. We collect from home, work or college anywhere in Portlaoise, at no extra cost.
Yes. We run manual and automatic lessons from the same Portlaoise base. A single automatic lesson is €61.41 and the 12-lesson package is €659.24.
We cover Mountmellick, Mountrath and Stradbally, plus Ballyroan. The instructor lives close enough to come to your door.
Portlaoise driving lessons, with free pick-up anywhere in Portlaoise.
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