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The Barna Road/Ballymoneen Road junction, the scene of a number of accidents, is to be made significantly safer after the Galway City Council gave the go-ahead for the installation of traffic lights.

The new Garda mobile safety cameras have been given a cautious welcome with local representatives urging the Government to ensure that it will not turn into a money-making exercise and to invest in the re-alignment of dangerous country roads.

Ireland’s new network of speed cameras, operated by a private company called GoSafe, will start operations next month.

Ireland’s new network of speed cameras, operated by a private company called GoSafe, will start operations next month.

Ireland’s new network of speed cameras, operated by a private company called GoSafe, will start operations next month.

Mayor of Castlebar and Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere has welcomed the news that temporay resurfacing work will take place on an accident blackspot on the Newport road, but he is calling for a more permant soloution to the problem.

Mayor of Castlebar and Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere is calling on Mayo County Council to repair a section of Newport Road which has seen numerous traffic accidents in the recent past. The section of road in question is quite close to the entrance to the new cemetery where vehicles appear to lose control. A number of road traffic collisions have taken place at the location over the past number of months, with the most recent occurring last weekend. Local residents confirmed to Cllr Deere that a number of other accidents had occurred at the location in recent months.

A series of traffic accidents has prompted a north Kilkenny councillor to draw attention to a dangerous bend on the N78 road at Damerstown.

An accident blackspot described as a disaster-in-waiting bore witness to another fatal collision on Tuesday evening as two more young lives were lost on Kilkenny’s roads.

A stone wall surrounding the front garden of a residence on Brannigans’s Corner on the Granges Road has been rebuilt 14 times in recent years as a result of cars crashing into it.