Almost 20,000 L-drivers fail to show for their driving test every year, resulting in a €1.7m windfall for the Road Safety Authority.

The breath test scandal has been “swept under the carpet”, according to a road safety lobby group.

District court judges around the country are striking out drink-driving cases because of continuing delay in the Supreme Court issuing a ruling on a challenge to the law.

An inquest into the death of a man who died in a road traffic crash is set to go ahead today despite strenuous efforts by the man’s father to have it delayed because he says it was never properly investigated.

Garda bosses talked up data but not all of it was to hand at the Policing Authority meeting, writes Michael Clifford.

Failure to serve summons for offence is biggest impediment to securing a conviction

The wrongful conviction of drivers for penalty point offences has caused “immeasurable damage” to many of the 14,700 people affected, a leading traffic lawyer says.

Apple celebrates its 40th birthday today having risen from a three-man project in a California garage to the most valuable company in the world, estimated to be worth over $700bn (€615bn).

PARC Road Safety Group has been working with Minister Leo Varadkar since 2011 to achieve our shared vision of saving lives and protecting road users from injuries.

Major changes in the way gardaí collect collision data are set to provide the clearest picture ever of the causes behind road deaths.

A widow whose husband was killed in a St Stephen’s night accident says he has not died in vain after the safety campaign his death spurred helped bring about major changes in the way collision data is collected.

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A Donegal-based road safety campaigner has said a Kerry County Council motion calling for rural people to be allowed to drink and drive is "ridiculous".

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ROAD safety campaigners have expressed outrage at legislation being proposed by the Government which will allow some motorists over the legal drink-driving limit to avoid losing their licence.

The Road Safety Authority is holding an event in Dublin later this morning to remember those who have lost their lives on the country's roads.

THE roll-out of an extensive network of mobile speed cameras will begin nationwide on Monday.

ROAD victims and motoring supporters have backed radical changes to the driver licensing system but hinted that the new rules on training learner drivers could have gone further.

ROAD safety campaigners are warning that the controversial planned new drink-driving legislation does not to go far enough to save Irish lives.

THE number of lives lost on Irish roads over the past 50 years is equivalent to the entire population of Tralee in Co Kerry.

WE in PARC road safety group are disgusted at the behaviour of Mattie McGrath TD and his fellow-backbenchers who are opposing the reduction in the drink-driving limits to bring us in line with best practice in the EU.

THE letter from the road safety group PARC (August 10) quotes statements by Dr David Bedford which he claims are based on research.

I READ with dismay recently about Fianna Fáil deputy Mattie McGrath’s anger at Transport Minister Noel Dempsey’s proposal to bring legislation before the Dáil in the autumn to reduce the legal drink driving limit.

The Scarlets will look to make it six unbeaten at their new home Parc Y Scarlets against Leinster in the Magner's League on Saturday.

WE in PARC road safety group welcome the proposals for a new graduated driving licensing system for learner drivers. We also welcome the proposal for zero tolerance of drink driving among learner drivers.

TWO young men died in separate road traffic collisions on the same weekend as remembrance services were being held for crash victims across the country.

The vulnerability of road users was highlighted today as victims of road crashes were remembered around the country.

REBEL TD Jim McDaid has strayed even further from Fianna Fáil by backing a road safety group that is lobbying the Government to overhaul drink and drug-testing laws for drivers.

THE World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims takes place on Sunday next.

THE recent fallout from the Lisbon Treaty proves what we in the road safety group, PARC, have suspected for a long time, and that is that democracy in Ireland is in crisis.

THE Parc Group has sold its aviation unit for an estimated €30 million.

NEARLY half of Ireland’s youngest drivers support reducing the legal drink-driving limit to zero, according to a survey revealed yesterday.

More than half of Irish people are in favour of a zero alcohol limit for motorists, according to a survey conducted by the road safety campaign group PARC.

Aviation personnel provider Parc has announced the sale of its HR outsourcing and recruitment business, Parc HR Services (PHRS) to the management team of the subsidiary.

DOZENS of while balloons were released into the sky yesterday as families bereaved by traffic accidents gathered to remember their loved ones and appeal for greater effort to reduce the toll on the country’s roads.

Over 100 balloons were released into the skies over Co Donegal today in a special ceremony remembering the victims of road traffic accidents throughout the country.

VICTIMS of road accidents will be remembered across the country tomorrow.

Victims of road accidents will be remembered across the country on Sunday.

PARC (Public Against Road Carnage) was set up in 2006 to combat road deaths and injuries and has been campaigning ever since for compulsory drink and drugs testing of all drivers involved in accidents.

ALL motorists involved in collisions will be tested for alcohol and drugs, the Taoiseach has indicated in a letter to a road safety group.