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It would be foolish to completely rubbish the newly-announced plans to introduce road safety classes to Transition Year students as any move in that direction is a positive one; but the whole thing does leave you asking ‘is this it?’

Announced this afternoon — the rule requiring that a driver on a 2nd provisional licence have a driver with a full licence in the car is postponed until end of June 2008. 8 months to clear the test backlog (209,000 currently on their 1st provisional, by the way). Statement from the Department of [...]

It’s an old one but I’m bumping it for the weekend that’s in it. Take care on the roads y’all. I’ll be gone for the next week on me holliers and I expect to see you all here when I get back.

Planning hearing on Dublin Ikea store
Signalling fault blamed for Dublin congestion

Let’s take it as a given that from now until May, any time a politician opens his or her gob, they’re canvassing for votes.
If that’s the case, how does all this talk about drink-link buses make you feel?
I’m sick of media headlines about the so-called “death of rural Ireland”. Am I the only one who [...]

I was listening to morning Ireland’s feature on SUV’s today(Real Player reqd) and I was shocked at the level of knowledge of driving by the people in the vox pop. They were asking SUV drivers in Dublin about why they had SUV’s. A few people when asked about the dangers to other road users caused [...]

First, a plug. If you haven’t seen it yet, please give RoadSafetyBlog.com a visit. The site is co-ordinating a campaign among Irish bloggers to get people across the Island involved in the development of the next Road Safety Strategy, and to get young people in particular thinking and talking about road safety.
The campaign is asking [...]

Damian Blake is trying to get bloggers to start having their voices heard about Road Deaths. He wants us to:

Write a post on your own blog;
Tag it with “roadsafetyblog,” link to this post or add a comment below with the link;
If you don’t have a blog, you can comment here;
Most importantly, we need your suggestions [...]