Meanwhile on the Roads...

@magicbastarder Read that last night on the Irish Examiner, all while he was out on bail also. Seriously though, what's wrong with sentencing in this country? Is it solely down to lack of prison space or are judges so far removed from reality. Somewhat related I see the Hayes brothers were only given 2 and 2 1/2 year sentences for beating their friend to an inch of his life. It was so vicious that when they put him back in his car as he couldn't move himself they had to straighten his keys that were bent from the beating.

@AndrewJRenko Agreed, see it all the time when cycling through Dublin city centre along the quays and up through the Phoenix Park, phones and screens lit with all sorts of video chats and shows. One morning at 06:30 a few weeks back a motor cyclist pulled up beside me at red lights with his phone handlebar mounted showing a soccer game, I would have expected better from a similar two wheeled commuter who should be more atune to the surrounding dangers.

Feedback displays installed 18 months ago in a 50kph zone show passing drivers their speed. Data extracted showed an average 1,061 vehicles passed daily. 86% of all vehicles passing through >50kph, with average speed of 83kph.

Senior council officials said because speeding is becoming a big issue.. they will provide gardaí with all the council’s speed analysis from now on.

Why can't they do this nationwide? And publicise it monthly.. Is it because it is unpopular or hiding behind GDPR?

Would make an interesting FOI request. In the past, Councils specifically avoided downloading the detailed data so it couldn't be released.

Claire Byrne had a good piece on earlier on the upcoming L road reductions. A Garda chief super and somebody senior from TII explaining the rationale, pointing to evidence of major and immediate KSI reductions where introduced elsewhere, and none of this "balanced debate" nonsense you'd get on Cartalk where they prop some knuckle dragger upright to shout whatabouteries for 10 minutes of your life you'll never get back

They'll still be blaming the Green in the future when they'll have been out of government for years

Two years for killing a child having broken a red light. Judge should retire to his library with a brandy and a pistol- a thundering disgrace.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0210/1495857-dangerous-driving-death/

I think he might be a bit soft in general; he told Kyle Hayes on date of verdict he'd get a sentence and then at sentence hearing set him off on a suspended sentence. He's barely on bench 2 years, at a guess he's got 10 years to retirement.

Was it the lights at Janeville or further towards town centre?

Child had no chance with one of those trucks.