Meanwhile on the Roads...

zell12 · 31-12-2025 02:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124105025#Comment_124105025

Police Chief: everyone does it but we simply cannot say that, it would make us look bad, but we need to be seen to be doing something

Expensive PR soul: say that most people do it. no, make that we see more people doing it. damn it, just say it is a very very large minority are at it with a concerning tone

magicbastarder · 01-01-2026 11:58AM

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2026/01/01/plan-for-cameras-to-catch-motorists-breaking-red-lights-in-dublin-is-shelved/

Plus ca change

Paddigol · 01-01-2026 01:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124108059#Comment_124108059

We’re investing in Thoughts and Prayers as a nation instead.

Seth Brundle · 07-01-2026 08:28AM

Is there anything to be said about creating another report?

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/action-plan-for-tackling-rise-in-number-of-road-deaths-to-be-set-up-by-transport-committee/a173109406.html

JMcL · 07-01-2026 02:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124105982#Comment_124105982

This would be my experience of it as well. Been going on for years though I think they moved from a medium-busy R road onto a quieter L road a couple of years back. That said, I'd never seen any hassle while it was all going on on the R road - people generally showed patience

Large bottle small glass · 07-01-2026 04:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124125577#Comment_124125577

I remember my wife had a UK work colleague who wanted to see real Ireland.

I brought him to the Castle Inn in North main Street for pints,a junior hurling game and road bowling in west Cork.

Even for me the road bowling was a culture shock. The cute hoorism, betting and especially what spectators/gamblers say to competitors is something else.

Should be at the top of trip advisor/lonely planet lists.

Armagh must be something else

Paddigol · 07-01-2026 06:33PM

Dublin Fire Brigade post on FB, underneath a photo of a street with cars parked allowing almost no room for a truck sized vehicle to pass…

Please think about emergency vehicle access when parking up. A car may fit through this space but an Ambulance or Fire Engine definitely won't. Seconds matter in life threatening emergencies.

Of the first four comments, three are having a cut off cycle lanes (which aren't even remotely relevant to the photo). Majority of comments are 100% pure car brain rants (right to park cars outside houses etc.)

Jesus wept.

khamilton · 09-01-2026 06:20PM

Cycling to work for the first time yesterday - large artic brakes the red lights(after mine had gone green) at the junction at Bill Sheehan in terenure at a decent pace, only to jam on as the terenure cross lights are red.

I come up behind him as he takes off, no indicators, no change in road position or turning of the wheels and turns left at the last second onto Terenure Road North, again at pace.

This is how cyclists get killed - his wheels hit the kerb turning left, there's a crash barrier, and any cyclist who was there, even if they stopped, were going under it.

I should probably get a helmet camera and start reporting daily incidents even if it won't do any good.

magicbastarder · 09-01-2026 10:57PM

i had a courtesy car from the garage because mine was being worked on. not that i've only driven small cars - i drove octavias for ten or twelve years and recently moved to a kona - but the courtesy car was a hyundai tuscon, which failed my acid test of being too big by dint of me not being able to see over it. it's weird; it's about the same width as my kona, i think, but just felt much wider. i didn't enjoy driving it, it just felt unnecessary. i don't think i'd enjoy driving a van…

fat bloke · 10-01-2026 11:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124134215#Comment_124134215

Unnecessary. Yes, indeed. 🤔

McGrath5 · 10-01-2026 12:36PM

The amount of general destruction caused by car drivers to street furniture and general car infrastructure is mad. Poles bent, fences knocked down, walls destroyed, footpaths wrecked etc. Take this poll in Cherrywood as an example, lit up by the traffic lights and finished with a shiny finish yet still….

zell12 · 10-01-2026 01:20PM

I asked the question before, who pays for the damage? It is everywhere, so much so we don't notice it, it is just accepted.

magicbastarder · 10-01-2026 01:22PM

i would assume the local authority pays it. who hangs around to admit to the council that they smashed a traffic light, unless the gardai have been involved?

fat bloke · 10-01-2026 05:13PM

Gosh after a week in Spain. It's great to get back to the home roads and fellow road users. We really are a friendly bunch. Had loadsa cars today beeping at waving at us. Funny, I didn't recognize hardly any of them. The Spanish are awful standoffish by comparison.

Paddigol · 15-01-2026 04:17PM

For a bit of context in the week that's in it, with all the talk of cyclists being a nightmare and a menace on the streets…

Girl left seriously injured after she was struck by car in Dublin | Irish Independent

The fact that this will hardly warrant a mention in public discussion because incidents like it are now so commonplace kind of makes the point.

Hope she makes a full recovery.

piston · 15-01-2026 11:08PM

Someone knocked down by a car in Letterkenny today too.

I'd say it happens more than most people will ever realise.

zell12 · 16-01-2026 04:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151110#Comment_124151110

Serious pedestrian injuries almost daily powerpoint RSA 2020-2024

magicbastarder · 16-01-2026 05:04PM

kerry TD gets done for driving at between 190km/h and 200km/h, then his solicitor comes out with this:

Mr O’Keeffe said Mr Cahill accepts the evidence against him, saying “he misjudged it as he had to go to an event in Kerry”.
But he also said that it would be his duty as a solicitor to challenge the evidence as it was uncorroborated, because the garda was the only person in the Garda car.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41777057.html

Thelonious Monk · 16-01-2026 05:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151110#Comment_124151110

Yes yet another elderly person in a critical condition. Funny thing is it's many older people who think bikes are the real danger when it seems the majority of pedestrians killed seem to be 70+.

Thelonious Monk · 16-01-2026 05:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124153154#Comment_124153154

No doubt his honour will be condemning all motorists as a nuisance

Seth Brundle · 16-01-2026 05:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124153154#Comment_124153154

So, has his solicitor gone rogue?

sligeach · 16-01-2026 06:00PM

"We have a huge issue in Kerry, and I’m not making excuses here, but I have concentrated big time since I was elected for respite for these families who don't get any respite for six or seven months.
"That was very much in my mind as I wanted to be there for this particular meeting, having met the parents, especially the mums."
Asked if he was going to appeal the conviction, he said "I will be discussing that with my solicitor".
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0116/1553509-michael-cahill-dangerous-driving/

Ya, he's truly sorry and repentent. 🙄

magicbastarder · 16-01-2026 06:39PM

how can he appeal a conviction when his solicitor has stated in court that he accepts the evidence? i guess hoping for a technicality?

standardg60 · 16-01-2026 06:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124153154#Comment_124153154

I'm liking that judge with his correction on the overtaking lane.

TD apologises and states he's embarrassed, yet doesn't rule out appealing the verdict, typical.

magicbastarder · 16-01-2026 06:57PM

if he does appeal, i'd be tempted to write to his party leader and ask will they be removing the whip from him.

after all…

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/we-have-to-do-everything-to-spare-people-that-trauma-taoiseach-pledges-renewed-focus-on-road-safety-following-190-traffic-deaths-in-2025/a1813743456.html

Paddigol · 16-01-2026 11:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124153451#Comment_124153451

Welcome to Ireland.

To the point some people are implying… his solicitor isn’t putting a gun to his head. He’s perfectly correct to state that he has a duty to his client. The issue is his client - his behaviour on the roads, his failure to plead guilty and accept his punishment, and his willingness to appeal.

magicbastarder · 16-01-2026 11:55PM

his client did plead guilty. also, his client is a TD, not some neophyte who is wide eyed at the idea of being a helpless cog in the face of some legal system he has no control over. he's well aware that his solicitor operates under his instructions.

Seth Brundle · 17-01-2026 12:30AM

Seems he won't be appealing (and the cynic in me presumes that is to protect his political career rather than any sense of self-respect) - unless his solicitor is appealing without his knowledge 🙄…

A sitting TD caught overtaking dangerously at 190kmh has said he will not appeal and will step down as a member of the Oireachtas Justice Committee, as the Taoiseach described his speeding as “utterly unacceptable”.
On Friday, Kerry TD Michael Cahill was disqualified from driving after being caught travelling at 190kmh on the Dublin-Cork motorway, overtaking a stream of traffic and coming “aggressively” close to a van in front to force it to change lanes.
Mr Cahill (60) was disqualified from driving for two years after being convicted of dangerous driving by Judge Colm Roberts at Fermoy District Court.
In a statement on Friday evening Mr Cahill said he would not be appealing the penalty and would step down from the committee.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/utterly-unacceptable-taoiseach-says-fianna-fail-td-caught-speeding-at-190kmh-will-face-scrutiny-by-partys-rules-committee/a147950770.html

khamilton · 17-01-2026 07:34AM

This shows the value of having Gardai out there actually patrolling in cars rather than relying on automated enforcement. If it wasn't for the testimony about the aggressive driving, it would have been careless driving AT BEST and potentially just points if he had a decent solicitor in court.

CramCycle · 17-01-2026 10:41AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124154727#Comment_124154727

100%, but not for the reason you stated in my poinon. 190kmph he was still getting a dangerous driving charge if it was a speed camera. The benefit, to me, is two fold, one, it makes people who learn the typical speed camera locations there is still a chance of getting caught elsewhere. The second is that in these cases, he isn't continuing at 190kmph for the rest of his journey. Funny they don't mention a roadside drug test or anything like this which I thought is normally carried out and reported.

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