30k speed limits for all urban areas on the way

Who said anything about cyclists?

Well, you did. Quite frequently.

BTW I'm certainly not the only pedestrian who has noticed lawbreaking by cyclists being rather commonplace.

You're right, lawbreaking by cyclists is indeed commonplace, as is lawbreaking by motorists and lawbreaking by pedestrians. You frequently go to extensive lengths to excuse lawbreaking by motorists, which suggests that lawbreaking isn't really a big issue.

I'm equally disgusted by the attitude that the small number of victims in these cases can be used as cudgels against millions of people who have nothing whatsoever to do with these incidents. That is, not even being involved, let alone culpable in any of them. At least that's what it looks like some are doing.

All I'm looking for is proportionality. Wallpapering the country with 30kph speed limits is like using a wrecking ball to drive a nail.

They're not wallpapering the country with 30kph limits - it's urban areas. These places should be more friendly and safe for pedestrians, cyclists, kids, the elderly and everyone else in between.

You seem to miss a key point in all of this - lower speed limits in urban areas makes streets safer, quieter, less polluted and nicer places to live, play in, eat in, socialise in.... build a proper community.

In dense urban areas, average speeds are low anyway due to a high level of junctions. In small urban areas (a village or town), the lower limits will add a minute or less to driving times.

I'm strongly in favour of lower, and more rigorously enforced, urban speed limits.

I would suggest making the urban limit 30kph, putting up many many speed cameras and charging a simple fine to those who exceed it by less than 10kph An automatic charge of say €80, just to pay for the implementation. Proper criminal proceedings above that speed, with appropriate endorsements.

Surely since cars have a much greater mass than bicycles. their speed limit should be much less than bicycles.

Involved, or culpable?

The culpable drivers did something to cause a collision. The remainder of the 3,257,621 did not. They have a right to ask that road safety measures be proportionate.

No, I'm calling for laws that are proportionate.

Wouldn't want any disproportionate enforcement or anything

Do you understand what 'proportionate' means, because I suspect you don't.

200 more claims - shocking!. Up 187 on 2022 - what is the world coming to?

This means that there were 1740 uninsured claims in 2022, which proportionally is 1.3% of total claims. Given that uninsured vehicles make up 8.3% of the total, one might wonder why they are proportionately involved in only a sixth of the claims that an equal number of insured vehicles would have been.

I'd say the amonunt of national angst and outrage over uninsured drivers is rather disproportionate, as are the resources devoted to enforcement.

If the country didn't have such a fatuous legal system in the first place, the problem would be trivial, but Barristers having a slightly reduced opportunity to take their fee cut of multi-million payouts has to be one of the most serious issues facing Irish society. /s

Spot on. My car has six gears, at 30 kph I'd likely be in 4th. But at least it's not a diesel, because 17 years ago I made a conscious decision not to polute and to instead cop the punishment of higher registration fees and excise in order to do the right thing, because unlike the clueless EPA or Greens, I knew what 3-nitrobenzanthrone is.

This has been covered multiple times earlier in this thread. Using Galway as an example, the only roads that have been made 30km/h are relatively central streets with short distances between traffic lights. Main arteries with longer distances between traffic lights have been increased from 50 km/h to 60 km/h or even 80 km/h.

So you aren't replacing a driving pattern of a steady 50 km/h with a steady 30 km/h. Instead you are replacing a pattern of accelerating up to 50 km/h and then braking back down to zero, with one of accelerating up to 30 km/h and then braking back down to zero. For that type of driving, emissions are lower if you are only accelerating up to 30 km/h.

So going by that logic, if you're concerned about 30kph limits causing more pollution, then should the 120kph motorway limit be reduced to 90kph? In Germany they're trying to reduce the sections of unrestricted Autobahn's to cut Co2 emissions.

The average speed of a motor vehicle in Dublin city centre is about 16kph, having a 30kph limit would mean that less hard accelerations to 50kph speeds are needed on city streets, which from the many old Diesel cars on the road usually means a lung full of black sooty smoke for the local residents walking down their street.