Last month, Transport Minister Shane Ross received the backing of cabinet to introduce new laws for greater penalties for drivers who exceed limits at higher speeds.

All residential areas across Dublin City are to see speed limits cut to 30km/h under new laws that will begin next year.

Garda chief Drew Harris said Government plans for graduated penalties for speeding were “appropriate and entirely logical”.

It is entirely rational that there should be graduated fines for varied rates of speeding.

Minister for Transport Shane Ross has said that there “was no revolt” at today’s Cabinet meeting to discuss his graduated speed proposals.

Convictions for speeding are falling dramatically, with significant reductions also in the number of people convicted for driving while using a mobile phone, new figures show.

Revised speed limit bye-laws for Kerry have been agreed for the first time in more than a decade.

Plans for tougher penalties for speeding offences are facing backlash after a growing number of TDs in Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have expressed their concern over the proposals.

The Transport Minister Shane Ross is proposing a change to speeding fines to punish faster drivers.

276 motorists were detected driving over the speed limit by gardaí yesterday during National Slow Down Day.

City Councillors in Dublin want drivers to slow down in more suburbs.

Videographer, Dan Linehan, caught up this weekend with the fed-up cottage-owners in Kerry whose 'colourful' sign outside their home in Kerry has attracted widespread media attention.

The Road Safety Authority is questioning a decision by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to raise the speed limit on a dangerous stretch of road close to a national school.

A proposal to extend a 30km per hour speed limit across Dublin city will go out to public consultation today.

The head of the Road Safety Authority Liz O'Donnell has said the speed limit on rural Irish roads is “way too high”.

Safer roads enable children to play, encourage people to cycle and walk and reduced speed limits would decrease the number of fatalities on Irish roads, writes Fergus Finlay.

A bereaved mother has accused Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe of “buck-passing” by failing to impose a 20km/h speed limit in housing estates.

Motorists will be allowed to decide what speed to use when driving on narrow country lanes from today.

Europe's top road safety agency is recommending that the speed limit on some of Ireland's roads be cut by a third to make them safer.

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has said a 30 kilometre an hour speed limit in city centres is impractical.

The Gardaí are due to begin using new mobile speed detectors on roads across the country from today.

Gardaí have said their clampdown on speeding will intensify in coming months.

Irish motorists are capable of easily adapting to the new metric speed limits, it was claimed today.

Thousands of classic car owners who do not have modern speedometers are preparing to stick conversion charts on their dashboards for the new speed limits, it emerged today.

New metric speed limits are due to come into force on all Irish roads at midnight tonight amid concern that many motorists are not prepared for the changeover.

Special reduced 30kph speed limits outside schools have not been fully enforced across the country, locals in Roscommon have said.