We’ve just moved to Normandy and have decided not to keep our clean little blue VW Up! If by any chance, someone is interested, please let me know and I can provide more details. The car is a 2014 RHD automatic and has 85k km. It was imported from Japan to Ireland last year and is very clean. It’s currently in Normandy. Open to trading for a French Reg automatic LHD.
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Do you have the LHD/RHD descriptions reversed? Japanese cars are usually RHD and, presumably, you are seeking a LHD French auto?
Or am I misunderstanding something?
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Yup, fixed it
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No, I think you’re right 
Japan (and Ireland) are RHD.
You’d be better off taking it back to Ireland. VRT has already been paid and it’d be easier and quicker to sell there IMO. You’d really need to import it here and get a French registration before you could sell it. Unless you find someone emigrating to Ireland who wants to take it with them. Unlikely 
Hence “Long Shot”
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My son had one of those before the children came along and absolutely loved it, very economical and easy to park. He had to trade it in for a new T-Cross eventually as it was not big enough for pram or buggy etc but the dealer here already had a customer looking to buy one and he got a good trade in on it for the new car
Would probably have been interested for us in Ireland, but I fear it may be too small for my giant frame to drive comfortably.
It has surprisingly good head and leg room due to its boxy style. Most cars this size are so rounded they feel much smaller inside. My husband is 6’1” (whatever that is in metric idk 
) and he’s got plenty of space.
They are terrific cars. Much more comfortable than other small cars. Easy to park and maneuver around Irish roads which were scary to me coming from a LHD country I’m sure we’d have no problem selling it in IE, just thought I’d post on the off chance someone in France would want it to take back to Ireland.
I remember Clarkson driving one of these on the Crimea to Chernobyl episode, trying to make it run out of petrol before Chernobyl but it wouldn’t. He endorsed it no end and he is not a small man
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the economy car challenges were always entertaining episodes. We did Essex to Netherlands to Normandy and couldn’t empty the tank either 
I considered that. It’s possibly a good option and a nice shade of blue.
We used to keep two cars in Dublin but we’ve only one there now. If we’re there for an extended period it’s worth driving back, which I do at least once a year, so we’ve two. But for shorter trips a second runabout there, as we used to have, would be handy.
My issue is I haven’t had a car insured there in my name since 2019, so my NCB is gone. Plus I now have a French licence and I’m non resident.
Car insurance has always been a nightmare in Ireland ,but it’s even worse now. I tried two comparison sites and Axa’s own one but couldn’t get a quote. I’m not sure they’ll even quote at all, and If they do it could be 2 or 3 K 
They will only accept Irish or UK NCBs. Our cars here are insured through Fabien with Axa. I might see if their Irish branch will accept a French NCB.
Woah! 
Serious gouging going on there, makes my French insurance pale in comparison with a 50% NCB. We might have to rethink our strategy, although not sure now what we’d do. OH originally had UK license and insurance history, now French though for over 18 years, and I have only ever had French car insurance. Certainly gives pause for thought 
Yes, it’s not easy and it is expensive. I will call Axa Ireland when I get a chance and see if they’ll accept Axa France proof of NCB. The NCB expires after three years there anyway. Luckily my wife has maintained her NCB or we would have been gouged on the car we so keep there.
Another great insurance scam in Ireland is that if you have a few cars you need an NCB for each one. I first found out when I bought a fun weekend car and went to insure it. I assumed I’d have 50% NCB as on my daily driver, but no, you need to build up a second NCB. Unbelievable. They are very awkward and anything other than vanilla gets hammered.
OP here. My husband and I had US drivers licenses and got our previous US insurance to provide a letter (we could only show about 4 years with a gap of a month before moving to IE because we’d given up the car). We used Cover in a Click and got an Allianz policy through them for 1200/yr. We thought that was pretty good considering no EU licenses or records.