A local councillor has highlighted the number of deaths on Irish roads in 2025.
Cllr. Noel Keelan raised the issue of road safety, and a spike in fatalities, at a meeting of Monaghan County Council this week.
According to the Sinn Féin councillor, 190 people were killed on Irish roads in 2025.
This includes five people on roads in Co. Monaghan, while two people were killed on roads in Cavan.
Speaking to Northern Sound, Cllr Keelan said that the council meeting was a "good opportunity" to raise the issue of road safety.
He has asked Monaghan County Council to make road safety a "priority" in 2026, and into the future.
Cllr Keelan outlined how a number of families in Monaghan are affected by road safety.
Cllr. Keelan said: "I'm very conscious that over recent months, a number of families have been bereaved in Carrickmacross and the wider area.
"The tragic loss of those fantastic young people in just before Christmas in late November. That has a devastating affect on the community and wider afield.
"It was a very difficult and sad Christmas for those families, and many families right across the island," Cllr. Keelan added.
