WARNING: Motorists alerted to new lower speed limits set to come into force in Tipperary

A number of new speed limit changes are set to come in effect in Tipperary in the first week of February.

With default speed limits on rural local roads to decrease from 80km/h to 60 km/h. Later in the year the speed limits in built up areas including housing estates and town centres will reduce to 30 km/h.

The speed limit changes will come into effect on February 7, 2025.

New speed limit signs will replace existing ones to reflect the change, the Department of Transport said, adding that the meaning of the Rural Speed Limit sign (a white circle with three diagonal black lines) will change from 80km/h to 60km/h as well.

While the change to rural road speed limits will come into effect on February 7, there are more reductions in store later this year, although the Department has not specified exactly when.

Later in 2025, the speed limit in some urban locations called “urban cores”, which include built-up areas, housing estates and town centres, will go down to 30km/h.

The speed limit on national secondary roads will also reduce from 100km/h to 80km/h.