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I've never driven much in Montreal. Usually it's off the highway and straight to the hotel and then I ditch the car until it's time to head home.
Driving in Ireland was an experience. Obviously the first issue is that they drive on the left side of the road but surprisingly it only took a couple days to get used to that and it became second nature. The more harrowing experience was driving along the skinny, winding roads with a tall hedgerow or stone wall next to your car and some local barreling up the road behind you. I got pretty good at finding the small spots where you can pull over to let them pass without totally stopping.
On the plus side, there was almost no traffic except around Galway and Dublin and driving through roundabouts was a lot of fun.
Your Ireland driving sounds similar to some of the drives I've had in the Scottish Highlands, and also parts of Cornwall, south west England, bit hairy if you're not used to it, but the locals tear around like nobody's business.