Road safety

Canon Frank McEvoy appeals to young people who might be attracted to criminal activity to ‘please stop’ during funeral Mass in Athy

Fourth of five funerals takes place as family members injured in motorway collision remain in hospital

Calls for strategy to address youth marginalisation and criminality

The fatal M9 crash raised questions linked by three contemporary concerns: road safety, youth crime and the warping effects of social media

Platforms should be treated same way as traditional publishers and broadcasters are

Maximise technology to detect road breaches as they happen

Preventing incidents such as the fatal M9 crash requires legislative change, better Garda training and engaging with young men

Psychology helps us understand why rewards of excitement, recognition or social status can temporarily outweigh appreciation of consequences

Despite public uproar over the fatal collision last weekend, gardaí say the policy of not engaging in wrong-way motorway chases will probably not change

Bishop Denis Nulty says crash ‘a sharp reminder that all of us share an enormous responsibility when we sit behind a wheel’

Garda liasion officer told Martin Lynch camera not working on road in which encounter took place

‘I can understand people’s anger and frustration, but this could happen to any cohort of people in Irish society,’ Martin Collins says

GoFundMe appeal has raised more than €500,000 to help with medical expenses

Collision happened on Wednesday night outside Ballyragget

Enough with the platitudes – it’s time for action

The parents of Alex McCarthy were said to be ‘heartbroken’ by his death

Family friend launches GoFundMe and says it is an ‘incredibly difficult and frightening time’

Offenders on roads aware that gardaí will not pursue if they travel the wrong way down a major roadway

Media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has contacted the social media company over its handling of dangerous driving footage

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If this trend is set to increase, then the response needs to reflect the seriousness of these actions

The culture that produced Sunday’s carnage must be named for what it is

Intentionally driving the wrong way to evade gardaí is ‘playing Russian roulette with people’s lives’

Gardaí to get pursuit training, Jim O’Callaghan says

I’m not in favour of state surveillance, but more cameras on our roads would save lives

Motorcyclist died in separate single-vehicle crash in Co Galway on Friday night

Muhammad Iqbal denied the offences but was convicted following a trial

All test appointments, applications to move to Killester but RSA could not say how many learners affected

Average speed cameras could tell if drivers have exceeded limits

The incident involving a bicycle and tractor occurred at about 6pm on Monday

All-Ireland winner also died in Cavan crash as GAA pays tribute to him as part of ‘generation that showed us all that anything is possible’

Crash happened on the R414 Rathangan Road in Monasterevin town on Monday morning

Car and van collide with woman passenger seriously injured and airlifted to Beaumont Hospital for treatment

Capital’s historic attraction is ‘a destination, not a through road’, officials say – though enforcement is difficult

Eight teenagers and a man were hospitalised after incident involving vehicle going the wrong direction on the motorway

Four others hospitalised following separate two-car incident in Co Kildare

Road deaths tracking at 12% above 2025 rate as latest incident brings total killed to date for 2026 to 112

So far this year, 110 people have been killed on State’s roads, an increase of 11 compared to same period in 2025

Data shows pedestrian deaths caused by drivers are approximately equal on rural and urban roads

Man (20s) pronounced dead after collision between car he was driving and 4x4 in Co Donegal