The chief executive of the Road Safety Authority (RSA), Moyagh Murdock has called on motorists to be vigilant and to slow down after a “devastating” weekend on the roads when seven people died.

An independent watchdog has criticised gardaí for their continuing failure to provide details of the circumstances around why they seek to have penalty points cancelled when detected speeding while on duty.

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

Shane Ross’s proposals for graduated speeding penalties is "yet another" attack on rural Ireland, Danny Healy-Rae has said.

Under the new plans, higher fines and penalties will be given out the more a person is caught over the speed limit.

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

SIPTU is calling on the Transport Minister Shane Ross to resolve a 72-hour strike by GoSafe speed van operators.

Just over 177,000 penalty points were issued in 2018, down 6.3% on the previous year.

A man was arrested for dangerous driving after his car flipped on the N7 in Co Kildare.

Gardaí stopped a driver in Carlow after he was caught speeding at 157km/h on the M9 motorway on Friday night.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Road traffic Gardaí were so surprised by a speed clocked by a motorist in Carlow that they said it, “beggared belief”.

The driver, a man in his 40s, failed to stop at a routine checkpoint in Walkinstown this morning.

The widow of a man killed in a traffic collision held up a photo of her husband in court and shouted that she wanted the man responsible for his death to see how young he had been.

A motorist in County Limerick has been caught travelling at nearly 170 kilometres an hour in a 50km/h zone.

Provisional road collision statistics for 2018 show Ireland continued to improve its road safety performance by recording a 4% drop in road deaths, making it the safest year since road deaths were first recorded in 1959.

Out of 101,900 vehicles monitored by the safety cameras, 476 vehicles were detected driving in excess of the speed limit.

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.

It will be next week before new proposals on graduated speeding fines will be brought before Government for discussion, with criticism already surfacing over enforcement of the planned changes.

It would see people charged a higher amount the more they're over the limit.

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.

A motorist was clocked going at 108km/h in a 60km/h zone in Balbriggan, Co Dublin yesterday.

Half of drivers (50%) in the UK think it is acceptable to break speed limits, new research suggests.

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.

Major roadworks have commenced on the M7 Motorway and will last until 2020.

The Transport Minister says he wants to bring in higher penalty points for speeding as soon as possible.

Gardaí say they will be cracking down on drivers who disobey 30km speed limits in Dublin over the festive period.

A man who overtook more than eight cars at speeds of up to 150kph has avoided jail. 

The Justice Minister says Gardai have set up a working group to look at why half of speeding motorists dodged a recent court appearance.

A motorcyclist, clocked by Gardai traveling at 218km per hour, has received a fine, after admitting a charge of driving carelessly, writes David Raleigh.

Two drivers who weaved and raced each other at speeds of up to 130mph left a mother-of-two with brain damage after crashing into her car, a court heard.

A driver from Switzerland has been fined for speeding for going just 14kms an hour.

He was not happy.

The Gardaí's "Operation Slow Down" has caught 322 motorists breaking speed limits.

There will be a large increase in the number of speed camera van zones on our roads from next week.