3 of the people selling them told me they got them from Ireland
But it might've been Northern Ireland as Republic of Ireland cars would have KPH clocks. Lets face it, you can't rely on the accuracy of car salesmen on the subject of cars, I suspect their knowledge of geography may also be suspect....
Northern Irish cars are UK spec.
When did they stop giving you the choice to have your car speedo in mph or kph?
Republic cars are KPH only since 2005. I think some manufacturers will allow you factory spec MPH clocks if you really insist but I think most of us are accustomed to KPH by now. We tend to get a fair amount of used UK imports though and those all have MPH obviously. So as usual, with a lot of things here, its a bit half arsed.
I guess the growing popularity of "Active Info Display" type dashboards will make switching from one to the other much easier anyway.