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Bronagh English

Mike and Bronagh together in lifejackets on a boat — Mike and Bronagh

In loving memory

Bronagh English

2007–2025 · aged 18

She was eighteen, and she was loved — warmth, quiet strength, and the brightest smile. This is a place to sit with her memory.

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

A life full of love.

Family days. Shared laughter. Adventures together. Photographs chosen by Mike to remember Bronagh beyond the road and the records.

Bronagh, aged five, skiing down the mountain in Austria — her dad, her Ormonde uncles and her godfather Eddie all making sure our Bronagh was ok.

♫ Listen · RTÉ Radio 1, Today with David McCullagh, 28 September 2026 →

Dave and Bronagh, Dubai, 29 October 2019.

Shared laughter.

Together at the door.

Mountain days.

Around the table.

A day at the pitch.

Evenings together.

An adventure by boat.

School-day smiles.

Time together.

Everyday moments.

Golden evening.

Out in the sunshine.

A beach-day smile.

Bronagh English with a child.

Bronagh English with her father.

Shared laughter.

Family photograph.

Family photograph.

Follow the whole record.

Her memorial What the council knew Blog Bronagh English — the full record Contact

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

Family photograph.

Family photograph.

The public record.

The family's account of the road is presented alongside inspection material, survey notes and safety pages. Each part remains distinct.

The open channel beside the road

Two family-supplied views show the roadside channel and road edge at the bend. No barrier is visible between the channel and the road in the photographed section.

Closer view of the roadside channel and exposed soil. Screen controls cropped; original retained.

Wider view of the roadside channel and bend. Black screenshot bars removed; vehicle registration obscured for privacy.

Capture date not confirmed. “Left” describes these views, not Bronagh’s direction of travel.

Was this a permanent drain or an excavation still in progress? What protection, signs and inspections were specified? Could water or erosion have affected the road edge?

These are questions for the works records and an engineering assessment, not findings from photographs.

Videos.

Cahir–Cashel road statistics

Cahir–CashelDeadly place to drive↗

Road statistics · sourced comparison

Cahir–Cashel road statistics

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.

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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

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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.

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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

• Road budgets

• Crash coverage

• 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.

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.

Mike and Bronagh In loving memory Bronagh English 2007–2025 · aged 18 She was eighteen, and she was loved — warmth, quiet strength, and the brightest smile. This is a place to sit with her memory. Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here. A life full of love. Family days. Shared laughter. Adventures together. Photographs chosen by Mike to remember Bronagh beyond the road and the records. ▶ Play video Bronagh, aged five, skiing down the mountain in Austria — her dad, her Ormonde uncles and her godfather Eddie all making sure our Bronagh was ok. ♫ Listen · RTÉ Radio 1, Today with David McCullagh, 28 September 2026 → Dave and Bronagh, Dubai, 29 October 2019. Shared laughter. Together at the door. Mountain days. Around the table. A day at the pitch. Evenings together. An adventure by boat. School-day smiles. Time together. Everyday moments. Golden evening. Out in the sunshine. A beach-day smile. Bronagh English with a child. Bronagh English with her father. Shared laughter. Family photograph. Family photograph. Follow the whole record. 01 The full record Her life, the Killardry Bridge, and the public record ↗ 02 Killardry Bridge The inspection record of the bridge where Bronagh English died ↗ 03 Tipperary roads Road conditions, standards and funding in County Tipperary ↗ 04 Tipperary road deaths The county's rural road fatality record ↗ 05 Tipperary Council Watch FOI documents, spending and Tipperary County Council's record ↗ 06 Videos ↗ 07 Tipperary roads The documented record of the road approach at Killardry Bridge, Co. Tipperary ↗ 08 Killardry Bridge The recorded measurements at Killardry Bridge, Kilmoyler, Co. Tipperary ↗ 09 Tipperary County Council public record What Tipperary County Council’s own inspections record for the bridge at Killardry, in date order, from the June 2024 “Warning” rating to 24 April 2025 ↗ Her memorial What the council knew Blog Bronagh English — the full record Contact Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here. Family photograph. Family photograph. The public record. The family's account of the road is presented alongside inspection material, survey notes and safety pages. Each part remains distinct. The open channel beside the road Two family-supplied views show the roadside channel and road edge at the bend. No barrier is visible between the channel and the road in the photographed section. Closer view of the roadside channel and exposed soil. Screen controls cropped; original retained. Wider view of the roadside channel and bend. Black screenshot bars removed; vehicle registration obscured for privacy. Capture date not confirmed. “Left” describes these views, not Bronagh’s direction of travel. Was this a permanent drain or an excavation still in progress? What protection, signs and inspections were specified? Could water or erosion have affected the road edge? These are questions for the works records and an engineering assessment, not findings from photographs. Nine inches: the wall height the council's own 2014 inspection recorded at Killardry Bridge Killardry Bridge · Eirspan inspection TS-LP3101-001.00, 4 March 2014 ↗ The council's inspection recorded the parapet 'partly removed' — months before 24 April 2025 Killardry Bridge · TCC inspection TY-L3151-B-010, 21 January 2025 ↗ A €450 repair: what the council's road-management record shows was done at Killardry Killardry Bridge · FOI 10526 ↗ 80 km/h until 7 February 2025: the default limit on the approach, in the council's own record Tipperary roads · FOI 10526; Motion 2861 ↗ 477 bridges, about three approved for funding a year Tipperary Council Watch · Cahir–Cashel MD minutes, 25 May 2026 ↗ Sixteen deaths in 2023: Tipperary's highest county count Tipperary road deaths · RSA, 1 January 2024 ↗ Videos. ▶ Tipperary County Council: The 80 to 60 km/h Motion and What Happened Independent family record about Tipperary County Council’s 14 October 2024 Motion 2861 on default speed limits. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council: Local Requests for Lower Limits in the October Debate Requests for lower limits formed part of Tipperary County Council’s October speed-limit debate. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council Road-Safety Context: The RSA’s 2023 County Count Sixteen is the Tipperary figure in the RSA release dated 1 January 2024, measuring road deaths during the full calendar year 2023. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council and the 60 km/h Change: Which Roads Did It Cover? The change announced on 7 February 2025 had a specific road-class scope: the default on rural local roads moved from 80 to 60 km/h. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council Records Question: What the 1 May Road Photograph Shows The photograph is real, and its date sets a firm limit on what it can tell us. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council Records Question: Which Documents Date the Works? An inspection date and a photograph date identify two observations, not a work programme. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council: The January Inspection’s Specific Parapet Observations The engineering inspection dated 21 January 2025 records specific observations rather than simply a general rating. Watch episode ▶ Tipperary County Council Records Question: From Inspection to Completion The final episode follows the records question beyond the inspection itself. Watch episode Cahir–Cashel road statistics Cahir–CashelDeadly place to drive↗ Road statistics · sourced comparison Cahir–Cashel road statistics 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. 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.