Tipperary’s 2023 county count
The RSA release dated 1 January 2024 lists sixteen road deaths in Tipperary during the full year 2023.
About this record
Sixteen is the Tipperary figure in the RSA release dated 1 January 2024, measuring road deaths during the full calendar year 2023. Table 2 lists Dublin and Cork at fifteen each, leaving Tipperary with the highest county count among the Republic’s 26 counties in that provisional snapshot. The date and the unit matter: this is a count of deaths, not a per-capita rate, and not a finding about any individual collision or road. We use it as precisely dated background to questions about Tipperary County Council’s road-safety decisions, without claiming what any councillor knew. Our question: how should county-level figures inform assessments of particular roads? Primary source: RSA release, 1 January 2024, Table 2, Fatalities by County, 2023 column: https://www.rsa.ie/news-events/news/details/2024/01/01/road-deaths-in-2023-increase-by-19 The real family road-approach photograph was taken on 1 May 2025, after the crash. It is later local context, not an image of the 2023 events counted in the table or proof of crash-time conditions. The bridge is not visible. Bronagh English — The Record is an independent family record, not an official Tipperary County Council publication or channel. Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here. Watch page and transcript: https://bronaghenglish.com/videos/rsa-2023-county-count/
Silent, captioned explainer; not crash footage.
Transcript
Sixteen deaths in calendar 2023
The RSA release dated 1 January 2024 lists sixteen road deaths in Tipperary during the full year 2023.
Read the same table
In that release, Dublin and Cork each recorded fifteen. Tipperary’s sixteen was the highest county count.
The scope of the county table
Table 2 covers the Republic’s 26 counties. It is not an all-island ranking or a table of rural local roads alone.
A dated provisional snapshot
The release labels its figures provisional. This episode uses that 1 January 2024 release, not a later revision.
Count is not rate
Sixteen is a number of deaths, not a population-adjusted rate or an explanation of why any collision happened.
From county data to local review
How should county-level figures inform assessments of particular roads?
Bronagh English — The Record
Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.
Sources
1 May 2025 family road-approach photograph; later context; not an image of the 2023 events.
Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.
