Government must take a more robust approach to road safety

As our track record on road deaths is getting worse rather than better, it is beyond past the time road safety was given its own senior ministerial portfolio

In total last year, there were 184 lives lost on Irish roads, a jump of 19% (or 29 people) on 2022’s total. File Picture: PA

It is a grim number — 113 people. That is 113 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, others.

That is 113 groups of friends, work colleagues, roommates, tenants, teammates, the person you stop in for a chat with if you pass their house, the coffee catchups.