Unlucky for some: Healy-Rae wants to avoid no.13 on new car registrations

Michael Healy-Rae has called on the government to introduce a new registration policy so that we can avoid driving around with ‘13’ on next year’s cars.

Healy-Rae is worried that us Irish and our silly superstitions will end up shying away from buying new cars that are registered in 2013 and the new car market will suffer as a result.

He believes that new car buyers will end up waiting an extra year so that they will avoid buying a car that has the number 13 on it.

“There’s people now who, we’ll say, always change their cars every two, three or four years,” Healy-Rae told TheJournal.ie.

“Take you, for instance - you might be one of these men who change their car every three years, and 2013 is your year to change.

“People like you are after going to the garages and saying they’ll wait until the next year before replacing their cars, simply because they do not want to drive cars carrying a number which is often thought to be unlucky.”

Car dealers have already approached him with their concerns.

Seriously though, are we that bad? It’ll probably end up being the safest year in the history of the State.

Sure, who cares? We won’t be around after December 21 anyway.