Child almost knocked down near Tipperary estate as concerns raised about speed limit
A child was almost knocked down outside a Tipperary housing estate due to a speed limit sign that’s in the wrong place.
Outside the Drommin Village estate in Nenagh, the road has an 80 kilometre per hour speed limit, which one local councillor says couldn’t possibly be right.
At the January meeting of the Nenagh Municipal District, Labour Party councillor Louise Morgan Walsh raised the issue again, and said that concerned parents had contacted her about the problem since their last district meeting.
"This 80kmh limit outside Drommin Village on the Borrisokane Road, I know I went on about this at the last meeting as well, but I had a parent on to me whose child was very nearly hit crossing this road going down to the shop,” Cllr Morgan Walsh said.
"I’ve said time and time again, these speed limit signs are in the wrong place, there couldn’t possibly be an 80kmh sign on one side of the road, and 50kmh on the other,” she said.
"This is a majorly big issue and I know a ramp going into the estate is going to be done, but it’s just not good enough. The Borrisokane Road at the moment is a deathtrap, people are speeding on it, and they’re allowed to because there’s an 80kmh sign there coming up to a housing estate,” the Labour Party councillor added.
In response, a representative from Tipperary County Council’s roads section said that they will look into the speed limit on the Borrisokane Road as part of the council’s speed limit review.
"We will review that 80kmh limit, and I’ll prioritise a review of that,” Cllr Morgan Walsh was told.
"All roads in the county are being reviewed at this stage, so we’ll have a look at that and we’ll make a decision on it,” the roads representative said.
The local authority are in the process of reviewing the speed limits on all roads across the county, in line with Department of Transport guidelines, in an attempt to increase road safety nationwide.
In 2025, 190 people died on the roads across Ireland, according to provisional figures from the Road Safety Authority (RSA), with 10 people losing their lives on the roads around Tipperary. Four people died on the county’s roads in December alone.