Just as an aside, I understand that the Irish Aviation Authority will not accept EASA PPL exams taken within the UK system because they apparently cannot be 'verified' by the UK CAA. So those going on 5 day courses and taking the UK exams beware!
Well that must be a
VERY recent introduction by the IAA because as recently as February this year there was absolutely no issues here - the papers haven’t changed so why should the process?