MACRA Na Feirme reminds the NRA, the county councils and all road planners that not everybody lives adjacent to the Ns 8, 20, 22, 25 and 71. People still live in rural Ireland and they would like secondary roads to receive the same treatment as new motorways.

The parents of two young sisters who were killed in a horrific motorway crash on Britain's M25 early today also lost a son in a road accident eight years ago, it has emerged.