Q&A: What are the proposed reduced speed limits and when will they be implemented?

Jack Chambers confirmed that, following the completion of a two-year safety review of our roads, he would shortly be bringing a proposal on reduced speed limits prop to Cabinet. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Speed limits look set to be significantly cut across Irish roads under a major Government review aimed at addressing the increase in accidents and fatalities recorded to far this year. 

Following the death of a male motorist in an accident in Carlow on Wednesday morning and the death of a teenager in Galway who fell from a tractor, there have now been 129 deaths on Irish roads so far this year — 25 more than the total reported by this point last year, and 37 more than in 2019.