Irish Car Rentals

Irish Car Rentals is a car rental company headquartered in Santry, Dublin that provides car rental services in Ireland. The Irish Car Rentals was the owner of GoCar, the first car sharing service in Ireland and has the Europcar franchise in Ireland.

The company was founded in 1984 and is one of the top 100 transport companies in Ireland. In 2014, the company was transferred to the Executive Trust Limited which also owns CARHIRE.ie and Car Rental Ireland.com. Before that Irish Car Rentals used to operate as a subsidiary of ICR Motor Group Limited.

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Locations

Dublin Airport
Dublin City Centre
Dublin City South
Cork Airport
Cork City Centre
Shannon Airport
Ireland West Airport Knock
Kerry Airport
Cavan
Athlone
Kilkenny
Waterford
Navan
Drogheda
Sligo
Galway City
Naas

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GoCar acquisition

During June 2012, GoCar was relaunched in the Mansion House Dublin by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague. Irish Car Rentals acquired the 80% stakes of the company resulting in giving it buying power for expansion of GoCar. By 2016 GoCar expanded from 10 cars in 2008 to 165 cars and 15 vans. The membership of GoCar is over 7,000 people.

In October 2016, GoCar launched a GoElectric range consisting of a fleet of 10 BMW i3 electric cars.

Europcar

Irish Car Rentals used to own the franchise of Europcar in Ireland. The association offers more than 5,500 cars in Ireland at more than 18 places, major among which are Dublin Airport, Dublin City Centre and Cork City. In 2013, the Europcar Ireland reported an 11% increase in its peak fleet numbers to more than 5,000 vehicles and surpassed 900,000 rental days.

In December 2016, Irish Car Rentals have been acquired 100% by Europcar Group. The Europcar brand operates in some 100 markets, the company only owns the operations in ten countries including the UK, France, Germany and Spain, with the rest franchised out.