The 80-to-60 motion
On 14 October 2024, Tipperary County Council debated Motion 2861 about new default speed limits.
1 May 2025 family road photograph; later context; bridge not visible.
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Local requests for lower limits
In October 2024, councillors reported that people in their areas had sought lower speed limits.
1 May 2025 family road-and-bank photograph; later context; bridge not visible.
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Watch page and transcriptTipperary’s 2023 county count
The RSA release dated 1 January 2024 lists sixteen road deaths in Tipperary during the full year 2023.
1 May 2025 family road-approach photograph; later context; not an image of the 2023 events.
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The Department of Transport announced the default change from 80 to 60 km/h on rural local roads that day.
1 May 2025 family road photograph; later context; bridge not visible.
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The family took this road-approach photograph on 1 May 2025, after the crash.
1 May 2025 family photograph; after the 24 April 2025 collision; bridge not visible.
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The Council’s engineering inspection of bridge TY-L3151-B-010 is dated 21 January 2025.
1 May 2025 family road photographs are later context; they do not date works.
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January’s engineering inspection records four areas of missing stonework upstream and two downstream.
2026 family wall photograph is later context; exact month not asserted.
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The 21 January 2025 engineering inspection records an overall rating of Significant Damage.
2026 family wall photograph is later context; no exact month asserted.
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Roadworks, the bank and the open-drain question
Exposed earth beside the approach, drainage and the protection questions. Read the dated family photographs alongside the council’s descriptions of works—and the records needed to establish what was done and when.
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The bend, the warnings and the bridge wall
What warned a driver before the bend, and what condition was the bridge edge in? The account separates advance warnings, the recorded bridge-signage field and DWA’s later survey.
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The engineering record and the council’s response
Significant damage was recorded before Bronagh died. Follow the inspection entries, the later internal-review response and the questions about decisions, interim protection and repairs.
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