07/02/2025
In effect from today..
🚫Speed limits are being reduced on Irish roads in a bid to tackle deaths across the country.
📆From Friday, February 7th, speed limits on rural local roads will decrease from 80km/h to 60km/h.
Later this year, the speed limit on national secondary roads will also be reduced from 100km/h to 80km/h.
The speed limit in urban areas will be also reduced from 50km/h to 30km/h.
The meaning of the rural speed limit sign, which is a white circle with three diagonal black lines, will also change from 80km/h to 60km/h.
👮♀️Breaking the speed limit, will cost three penalty points and a fixed charge fine of €160.
🚓 Gardai will enforce the new limits from Friday.
🚙 Reducing speed reduces collisions- a 1% reduction in speed results in 4% reduction in fatalities.
