New rural speed limit signs are to be introduced over the next two years.
The existing eighty kilometres per hour signs on narrow country roads (pictured below) and inappropriate speed limits will be removed.
Drivers will have to use their own judgement under the new system, but the speed limit will remain at eighty.
The old and new signs that will be soon seen on rural roads:
A new appeals mechanism is also being rolled out, to allow motorists highlight locations where limits are inappropriate.
Conor Faughnan from the AA (pictured above with Transport Minister Leo Varadkar) is a member of the Speed Limits Working Group.
He explains the new sign:
