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Tipperary County Council: road-safety response record

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Initial source-verified public-document context for council road-safety responses; not a complete 25-year case-by-case response history.

These programme and institutional records are not a response ledger for every collision or location. A missing record does not establish that no action occurred, and a stated action does not by itself establish delivery or outcome.

  • This is initial verified document context; coverage is not a complete case-by-case history across 25 years.
  • The cited CSO figure for 2021 is 10; the TCC 2021 report records 11. No reconciliation is inferred.
  • This institutional document record is not a collision dataset.
  • Only official public sources were used: Tipperary County Council documents and one clearly labelled national Department of Transport policy source. FOI or private correspondence, social posts and private legal material are outside this source set.
  • Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.
  • No victim private personal information is included.
  • Source summaries are paraphrases.
  • A council plan is not proof of delivery; an allocation is not proof of spend or completion; a reported completion is not proof of safety effectiveness.
  • Council planning is not collision causation. Raw deaths are not risk without population and traffic-exposure denominators.
  • The council’s inspection wording about damaged or partly removed material does not establish who removed it.

Institutional record

  1. 2018 strategy establishes a multi-agency model

    The 2020 report states that June 2018 saw the launch of the first Road Safety Strategy for all of Tipperary. This supports a first-strategy claim, not a broader claim that no earlier road-safety activity existed.

    Stated action
    Coordinate county road-safety interventions and report progress annually.
    Evidence of completion
    The report documents the strategy launch and multi-agency structure; it does not establish completion of every action.
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    Report-year context, not a site-specific hazard response.

    Road Safety Annual Reports Annual Report on Tipperary Road Safety Strategy 2020

  2. 2020 action review reports delivered and deferred measures

    The official 2020 review records a completed annual drainage programme, €537,902 spent on low-cost safety measures, an annual road-works programme, and LA16 forms only partly achieved. It also records Covid-19 restrictions affecting some education and collision-prevention activity.

    Stated action
    Maintain drainage, identify low-cost safety measures, complete post-fatality LA16 forms, and publish a road-works programme.
    Evidence of completion
    The report states completion or partial achievement for the listed 2020 actions; it does not prove that any particular road received a measure.
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    Report-year evidence; publication file states February 2021, but date is recorded as 2020 because the document is an annual report for 2020.

    Annual Report on Tipperary Road Safety Strategy 2020

  3. Strategy target and 2021 LA16 completion split

    The 2021 annual report states that 11 fatalities occurred during 2021; it records 9 LA16s completed by Tipperary County Council, 5 within one month, and 2 more completed by the relevant motorway maintenance company. This is the report’s historical figure and scope, not a reconciled CSO figure.

    Stated action
    Complete LA16 forms after fatal collisions, with a one-month target.
    Evidence of completion
    The report explicitly records the 9/5/2 split; it does not establish why another source may report 10 fatalities, and no reconciliation is inferred.
    Coverage boundary
    Report-year institutional record; not a location response.

    Annual Report on Tipperary Road Safety Strategy 2021

  4. Inspection, LA16 and low-cost-safety programme status reported

    The 2023 annual report says 11 fatal collisions in Tipperary had LA16 reports completed by Tipperary County Council. It also records 10 low-cost safety schemes fully or partly delivered in 2023, while national-route inspection schemes continued.

    Stated action
    Complete LA16 reports within one month; identify, prioritise and implement four low-cost safety measures for non-national roads.
    Evidence of completion
    The report states the 11-collision LA16 result and 10-scheme programme status; it does not identify all sites, costs, spend or outcome effects.
    Coverage boundary
    Report-year context; URL upload directory is 2024-07 and is not treated as the publication date. National-route programme context; local-road applicability must not be assumed.

    Action Plan 2021–2024 Annual Report 2023

  5. Mid-year report records LA16 status and low-cost schemes in progress

    At the end of Q2 2024 the council reported LA16 reports completed and up to date, with a 15-day target after a fatality. It also reported 10 low-cost safety schemes in progress in 2024 with an overall value of €600,000.

    Stated action
    Complete LA16 reports within 15 days of a fatality and identify, prioritise and implement four low-cost safety measures for non-national roads.
    Evidence of completion
    The mid-year report states the LA16 status and scheme count/value at that snapshot; it does not prove all schemes were complete or effective.
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    Report-year snapshot at Q2 2024; URL upload directory is 2024-07 but is not treated as a separate publication date.

    Action Plan 2021–2024 Mid-Year Report 2024

  6. Council adopts a motion seeking local discretion on the proposed default speed limits

    The adopted minutes record Notice of Motion Ref. 2861, proposed by Cllr Niall Dennehy and seconded by Cllr Máirín McGrath, agreed unanimously. The motion sought that new default limits not apply universally but only where the council deemed them necessary.

    Stated action
    Seek a locally determined application of the proposed defaults.
    Evidence of completion
    The minutes establish adoption of the motion. They do not establish that the council had legal power to stop or alter the national change, nor that the motion caused a later road death.
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    Meeting date is printed in the document on PDF page 1; policy position, not a site-specific hazard decision.

    Minutes of Proceedings: Tipperary County Council, 14 October 2024

  7. Review restates Safe System structure and national targets

    The review frames the county strategy around seven Safe System areas and the national goal of reducing deaths and serious injuries by 50% by 2030. It says the 2022–2024 action plan was extended into 2025 pending the next plan.

    Stated action
    Carry the strategy forward through a 2025–2027 action plan.
    Evidence of completion
    The review supports the stated governance transition; it is not a performance audit of every intervention or fatality outcome.
    Coverage boundary
    Only the URL upload path 2025-09 was verified for this artifact; no publication date is asserted.

    Review of Tipperary Road Safety Action Plan 2022–2024

  8. 2025–2027 plan specifies inspection, drainage, monitoring and speed-review mechanisms

    The plan identifies road-safety inspections, high-collision-location analysis, low-cost safety measures on non-national roads, a network safety analysis programme, an annual drainage programme, winter-service monitoring, and a speed-limit review with a Q4 2027 due date.

    Stated action
    Use prioritised inspections and identified locations to guide treatment, subject to funding, and publish/monitor relevant programmes.
    Evidence of completion
    The document establishes planned mechanisms and due dates; it does not prove delivery at any named local road or that an allocation was spent.
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    Only the URL upload path 2026-01 was verified for this artifact; no publication date is asserted. Forward plan, not retrospective site evidence.

    Tipperary Road Safety Action Plan 2025–2027

  9. 2025 report records LA16, Type D and collision-location outputs

    The 2025 report states that two Type D schemes were completed in 2025, high-collision locations from the 2022–2024 round were formally issued to TCC in January 2026, and all LA16s were completed for 2025. It also records a 2026 speed-limit review with implementation in 2027.

    Stated action
    Complete LA16 forms within 15 days, progress identified schemes, low-cost safety work, drainage, speed review and data-informed planning.
    Evidence of completion
    The report supports the specific programme statements in its tables; it does not identify all treated locations or establish outcome reduction.
    Coverage boundary
    Report-year context; URL upload directory is 2026-02 and is not treated as the publication date. Not a complete case ledger.

    Road Safety Annual Report 2025

  10. Regional and local roads funding lists county-wide programme categories and named schemes

    The allocation document lists county totals for bridge rehabilitation, safety improvement, drainage, and climate-resilience work, then names individual schemes. The listed projects are not a complete response history for every road.

    Stated action
    Allocate grant funding to the named categories and schemes.
    Evidence of completion
    Allocation is documented; spend, construction completion and post-work outcome are not established by this document alone.
    Coverage boundary
    Report-year funding context; URL upload directory is 2025-02 and is not treated as the publication date. Do not equate allocation with delivery.

    2023 Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations

  11. 2024 allocation names bridge, drainage and climate-resilience schemes

    The official 2024 schedule lists county-wide category totals and named schemes including bridge rehabilitation and climate-resilience works. The schedule does not by itself link those schemes to the Killardry/L3101 site.

    Stated action
    Fund the listed 2024 regional and local road schemes.
    Evidence of completion
    The allocation and named scheme list are established; spend, completion, location equivalence and safety outcome require separate records.
    Coverage boundary
    Report-year funding context; URL upload directory is 2025-02 and is not treated as the publication date. No site link inferred.

    2024 Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations

Five review questions

Source-checked questions, not findings of responsibility.

Hazard-to-treatment chain

Review question: When a hazard is identified, can the public record connect identification to a decision, funded treatment, delivery date and outcome review?

What the evidence supports: The council’s plans describe inspections, prioritisation, high-collision-location analysis, low-cost measures, drainage programmes and safety audits; annual reports provide selected programme updates.

What is not established: This initial review does not provide a complete site-by-site chain for 25 years, and an unlocated council response must not be treated as proof that no action occurred.

Annual Report on Tipperary Road Safety Strategy 2020 Action Plan 2021–2024 Annual Report 2023 Tipperary Road Safety Action Plan 2025–2027 Road Safety Annual Report 2025

Funding versus delivery

Review question: Does an allocation show that work was spent, built or effective?

What the evidence supports: Annual allocation schedules identify categories and named schemes, while annual reports separately describe selected completion or progress.

What is not established: An allocation is not proof of spend, completion, exact location, maintenance quality or safety outcome.

2023 Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations 2024 Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations Road Safety Annual Report 2025

Road classification and accountability

Review question: Which body has the relevant responsibility, and what monitoring route applies?

What the evidence supports: The safety documents allocate national-road network inspection and collision-analysis actions to TII and TCC, alongside separate actions for RSA, AGS and the Department of Transport.

What is not established: Responsibility for a particular road or action must be verified from its classification and the document-specific assignment; no general legal responsibility is inferred here.

Tipperary Road Safety Action Plan 2025–2027 Road Safety Annual Report 2025

Targets and outcome review

Review question: Are stated targets matched by public measurement of outcomes?

What the evidence supports: The strategy and plans state county and national reduction targets and annual reporting mechanisms.

What is not established: The reviewed records do not amount to a 25-year counterfactual or prove that any individual intervention caused a change in deaths. Raw deaths are not a risk rate without population, traffic exposure and comparable denominators.

Annual Report on Tipperary Road Safety Strategy 2021 Review of Tipperary Road Safety Action Plan 2022–2024 Road Safety Annual Report 2025

Speed-policy boundary

Review question: What was local policy, and what was national law?

What the evidence supports: The adopted minutes establish the council’s 14 October 2024 motion; the Department of Transport source is the national-policy reference for the later speed-limit change.

What is not established: The motion is not evidence that the council could veto national law, and neither the motion nor the speed change establishes collision causation.

Minutes of Proceedings: Tipperary County Council, 14 October 2024 Speed limits on rural and local roads change from 80kmh to 60kmh

Sources

Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.

The road approach with exposed earth beside the carriageway

Roadworks, the bank and the open-drain question

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The daylight approach to the turn and junction at Killardry Bridge

The bend, the warnings and the bridge wall

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A low damaged section of bridge parapet with the river beyond

The engineering record and the council’s response

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The wider road approach beside the bank

2023: Tipperary’s highest county death count

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The daylight approach to the turn

The 80-to-60 motion: what the council requested

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A wider view of the road approach

Cahir–Cashel: questions, requests and decisions

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A later close view of the stone edge beside the road

Councillor payments and expenses: follow the figures

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A detail of exposed earth and loose material beside the surfaced road

Rain, loose soil and the road edge

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The 80-to-60 motion

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Tipperary’s 2023 county count

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What the January inspector recorded

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From inspection to completion

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South Tipperary and West Waterford road-safety comparison, 2018–2023

South Tipperary and West Waterford road-safety comparison, 2018–2023

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South Tipperary and West Waterford road safety, 2018–2023 — 1 January 2018–31 December 2023 (six complete calendar years). On a fixed resident-population…

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Cahir–Cashel road statistics Cahir–Cashel Deadly place to drive ↗ × Cahir–Cashel road statistics Road statistics · sourced comparison Cahir–Cashel: 3.03× the national road-death rate 1 January 2018–31 December 2023 (six complete calendar years) . In the full Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District, including its rural areas, the derived annualized rate was 8.61 people killed per 100,000 residents , compared with 2.84 nationally . This is an area comparison relative to population, not a personal likelihood. This page uses the full municipal district, not the populations of Cahir and Cashel towns. The linked road-deaths map and record has broader coverage and a different purpose. The headline figures 23 people killed in 21 fatal-collision records in the district 8.61 annualized people killed per 100,000 residents 3.03× the State rate on this population basis 36.5% of County Tipperary’s deaths and 26.5% of its population; the district rate was 37.6% above the county rate. District results The district’s fixed Census 2022 population is 44,532 . The 23 people comprised 11 drivers, 5 passengers, 5 pedestrians, 2 motorcyclists . They were not all drivers. Annual district deaths were 6, 4, 1, 3, 3, 6 from 2018 to 2023. Scroll horizontally to read this table. Five Tipperary municipal districts District 2022 population Fatal-collision records People killed People killed per 100,000 per year Clonmel 25,003 10 13 8.67 Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel 44,532 21 23 8.61 Carrick-on-Suir 20,191 7 7 5.78 Nenagh 40,879 11 12 4.89 Thurles 37,290 8 8 3.58 Scroll horizontally to read this table. Annual people killed Year Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel County Tipperary State 2018 6 10 134 2019 4 13 140 2020 1 7 141 2021 3 10 132 2022 3 7 152 2023 6 16 179 County comparison National baseline: the Republic of Ireland recorded 878 people killed across a fixed Census 2022 population of 5,149,139 , an annualized rate of 2.84 per 100,000 residents over these six years. Tipperary recorded 63 people killed , a rate of 6.25 , ranking #2 of 26 counties behind Monaghan (6.38). Tipperary’s rate was 2.20 times the national rate. Scroll horizontally to read this table. All 26 counties, ranked by annualized rate; the CSO county aggregate does not supply mapped source-record counts Rank County 2022 population People killed Fatal-collision records People killed per 100,000 per year 1 Monaghan 65,288 25 — 6.38 2 Tipperary 167,895 63 — 6.25 3 Donegal 167,084 53 — 5.29 4 Roscommon 70,259 22 — 5.22 5 Louth 139,703 41 — 4.89 6 Cavan 81,704 23 — 4.69 7 Mayo 137,970 38 — 4.59 8 Offaly 83,150 22 — 4.41 9 Kerry 156,458 41 — 4.37 10 Kilkenny 104,160 27 — 4.32 11 Leitrim 35,199 9 — 4.26 12 Longford 46,751 11 — 3.92 13 Westmeath 96,221 22 — 3.81 14 Clare 127,938 29 — 3.78 15 Meath 220,826 49 — 3.70 16 Sligo 70,198 15 — 3.56 17 Limerick 209,536 44 — 3.50 18 Wexford 163,919 34 — 3.46 19 Galway 277,737 49 — 2.94 20 Carlow 61,968 9 — 2.42 21 Cork 584,156 83 — 2.37 22 Laois 91,877 12 — 2.18 23 Waterford 127,363 15 — 1.96 24 Wicklow 155,851 18 — 1.92 25 Kildare 247,774 25 — 1.68 26 Dublin 1,458,154 99 — 1.13 A higher district comparator Boyle Municipal District, County Roscommon, recorded 15 people killed in 14 source records from a population of 24,421: 10.24 per 100,000 , about 19% higher than Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel. This is not a claim that Boyle is Ireland’s worst district; 11 districts were screened in this targeted comparison. Clonmel’s 8.67 rate is marginally higher than Cahir–Cashel’s 8.61; the largest raw count is not the highest district rate. Public council minutes: 2024–2026 These later public records are separate from the 2018–2023 statistical comparison. They record requests, responses and planned work—not findings of causation or proof that work was completed. 2025-05-26 James Swords: recorded response to a safety request The minutes record Councillor John O’Heney asking for safety measures following a recent tragic incident. James Swords is listed as District Engineer present; the response is attributed to that role. Limit: The minute does not name the bridge or specify a parapet repair. It does not say that Gardaí were to design or direct a bridge repair. there is an ongoing Gardai investigation into the incident and if there are any recommendations from the report it will be implemented. Excerpt from the minutes, not a verbatim speech transcript. Official minutes — attendance and District Engineer, PDF p. 1 — Officials Present; James Swords, District Engineer Official minutes — District Engineer’s report, PDF p. 5 — Item 3.4, District Engineer’s Report Official minutes — recorded response, PDF p. 6 — Item 3.4, District Engineer’s Report 2024-10-14 Máirín McGrath seconded the default-speed-limit motion Motion 2861 was proposed by Cllr Niall Dennehy and seconded by Cllr Máirín McGrath, a Cahir LEA member. The full County Council recorded unanimous agreement. The motion sought selective application of the new default limits, rather than universal application across the county. Limit: This was not a motion introducing a blanket 80-to-60 reduction. The December clarification below records the legal-advice referral. Official October minutes — Motion 2861, PDF p. 12 — Item 8.2, Notice of Motion Ref. 2861 Official October minutes — unanimous outcome, PDF p. 15 — Notice of Motion Ref. 2861 outcome Official Council AGM minutes — elected-area roles, PDF p. 2 — Item 2.1, elected members by electoral area 2024-12-09 Council clarification and legal advice The minutes record Chief Executive Sinéad Carr acknowledging support for Motion 2861, while explaining that legal advice was being sought on whether a plenary motion could supersede national legislation. The October minutes were to be amended to reflect that clarification. Limit: This does not establish a road-specific exception or a suspension of national rules. Official December minutes — clarification, PDF p. 2 — Item 3.1, Matters Arising on October minutes 2025-01-13 80-to-60 implementation and weather-delayed signs The minutes record 7 February 2025 as the commencement date for the rural-local-road default reduction from 80 to 60 km/h. They also record severe weather delaying sign-installation work and distinguish a later, wider Phase 2 review. Limit: This is a dated implementation note, not proof of the limit or weather at any individual crash site. Official January minutes — Speed Limit Review, PDF p. 11 — Item 7.1, Roads, Transportation, Health & Safety 2026-05-25 477 district bridges; 14 applications; three funded The District Engineer reported €1 million in county bridge funding, 477 bridges in the district, applications for 14 bridges requiring work and funding for three. Limit: The minute does not establish whether Killardry was among the 14; funding is not proof of completed work. Official May 2026 minutes — bridge funding, PDF p. 6 — Item 3.6, District Engineer’s Report 2026-05-25 Temporary measures considered at Rehill Bridge Following Cllr Máirín McGrath’s request for urgent rehabilitation, the District Engineer reported that Rehill tender documents were nearly complete and temporary measures were being considered to reopen the bridge, with completion hoped for by the end of that week. Limit: This records a plan and expectation, not verified completion. Official May 2026 minutes — Rehill Bridge, PDF p. 6 — Item 3.6, District Engineer’s Report The earlier bridge inspection The family’s published summary of Council inspection record TY-L3151-B-010 reports “Significant Damage” on 21 January 2025 and records downstream capping as “partly removed”. That inspection predates both the 24 April 2025 collision and the 26 May 2025 meeting response. Limit: This is a summary of a Council record held on file, not the original report online. The records checked do not establish whether or when James Swords personally received or read the inspection report. Published family summary of the Council inspection record When was the inspection circulated to the district engineering team, and what action was recorded? Further accountability research Read the full sourced record on the primary statistics page . Representatives Engineering Payments Road budgets Crash coverage Weather Surfaces and works Exposure comparisons Method and limits People killed ÷ fixed 2022 population ÷ 6 years × 100,000. Populations are fixed Census 2022 references. Counts concern collision locations, not resident addresses; the result is not a rate per journey or vehicle-kilometre. Current 2024 reference boundaries are applied retrospectively. The series is provisional and subject to revision. The figures do not establish why crashes happened or measure road-maintenance spending. Return home · Open the broader road-deaths map and record Sources RSA SourceData — Map of Collisions source data — Fatal-collision source records, 2018–2023; mapped locations assigned to current reference districts. CSO ROA15 — Persons Killed and Injured — State and county people-killed totals, 2018–2023; provisional/revisable series. CSO ROA12 — All road users — Independent national cross-check of people-killed totals, 2018–2023. CSO Census 2022 Table 8.1 background notes — State and county 2022 population background. CSO FY108 — official statutory LEA population CSV — 2022 population basis and statutory LEA/district mapping. Tipperary County Council Adopted Budget 2024, Table 7 (PDF) — Five municipal-district populations labelled as based on Census 2022; physical page 20. Tailte Éireann 2024 statutory boundary dataset service — Checked 2024 Tailte Éireann statutory municipal-district boundary dataset service; current reference boundaries applied retrospectively. Irish Statute Book S.I. 631/2018 — Optional Boyle municipal-district/LEA mapping context. Download the five-district CSV · Download the 26-county CSV · Download the public JSON snapshot Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.

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Road Death Tipp95 people killed on the roads of County Tipperary, 2016 to 2025 inclusive. Working annual total, not a count of points on the map. Partial map coverage. No ages shown. Cahir–Cashel road statisticsCahir–Cashel: 3.03× the national road-death rate. Open the sourced district statistics and council notes.