The breakdown folk say that the majority of callouts are flat tyres, flat batteries, no fuel, wrong fuel, lost, wiper fallen off and so on.
If you can avoid these pitfalls you are in the smiley 5% place.
Tyres had been going soft for weeks if anyone bothered to check, don't leave lights on, check the colour of the fuel nozzle etc etc.
Make sure that whatever you have in the boot can actually turn the wheel fasteners.
Southern Ireland is hardly abroad is it? I mean it's not as if you were planning on going to Scotland or Wales
