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The Test***FINAL***

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Episode 6 synopsis

Maynooth music student and part-time folk singer Danny Arnold is on a mission to take on the global “easy listening” music business. His major problem right now, however, is transport. A full licence will not only give Danny transport independence but also a chance to expand his creative reach possibly coast to coast. Instructing Danny is ex-London driving instructor Mr Chris O’Dea, who alongside Danny’s granny Shirley, is his biggest fan. Chris has high hopes for Danny if he can get him to stop chatting in the car and get him over his fear of pedestrians.

After 30 years working in the construction business; builder, and part-time Cork area park warden, Anthony Byrne feels it’s time for a career change. He wants to be a bus driver and it is not just so his grandkids can sing ‘the wheels on the bus’ to him – which they do, constantly. Taking him on his driving test journey is former bus driver, now bus instructor Billy Corkery.

We also meet Ireland’s oldest approved driving instructor, 84-year-old Bill Shyne, who has been coaching the learner drivers of Limerick for more years than he cares to remember.