Editorial policy

We publish essays and guides about roads, motorways, tunnels, bridges and places connected with travel in Ireland. All of our material is intended to be of value to a reader who has an interest in it, rather than to fill the site with pages.

• — A guide to how a particular piece of infrastructure works, such as a motorway or a tunnel.
• — An explanation of the terminology and the signage that appear on roads.
• — Context on routes and places, without commercial recommendations.
• — Information about the site itself, about how it works and about the criteria we apply.

We do not publish material whose aim is to sell something, to book something or to promote something. We do not write reviews that a person might take as a commercial recommendation, and we do not write stories about people or about experiences that did not exist.

We do not publish material about authors who cannot be verified, or about awards or qualifications that cannot be checked. We do not invent opinions and put them in other people's names.

• — We do not invent stories about personal experience in which we took part.
• — We make no recommendation about a place, about a service or about a price.
• — We make no comment on people or on organisations unless there is a general editorial reason for doing so.
• — We do not create pages that cannot be defended as useful material.

Topics are chosen according to their importance and their usefulness. Material may come from frequently asked questions that we see, from subjects under discussion on the internet, or from the idea of an author who has a knowledge of the subject.

We do not choose topics because they sound attractive. It appears that our simplest subjects are no less an attempt to be sound than anything else we publish.

Every piece is written separately. We do not use a template whose wording is changed here and there in order to fill pages. Each essay supplies its own context, its own routes and its own examples.

Material does not pass through a stage of “verification” that could amount to a guarantee of accuracy: no process can confirm that. What can be said is that every piece is read, checked and edited before it is published.

When we refer to a finding about a road or about a regulation, we try to be clear that the material is not the same thing as the source. We do not imply that we have any connection with official sources, and we do not present their guidance as a substitute.

Where we give a number or a date, it is an approximation rather than an exact figure, unless stated otherwise. This is important in particular in the case of tolling, whose rules change.

We use photographs that are under an open licence or that are publicly available, and the credit is given beside the image and on the relevant page. Images are not stolen and are not misattributed.

The images are stored locally on this site's own premises. They are not loaded from third-party services. They are optimised for weight and performance, without being changed in a way that affects the content.

Every essay carries a publication date and an update date. The update date shows the last time the material was checked and improved. It does not mean that every part of it was changed.

Material is reviewed periodically. If a significant change is made to the material, it is indicated in the date and, in major cases, in the text itself.

If you see an error, tell us about it, together with the relevant page. We review it and we correct it where necessary. Where it is a significant error, it is indicated on the page or in the revision note.

We do not remove material as a result of a correction requested maliciously or in order to promote a commercial message.

We have no affiliation with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, with the National Transport Authority, with the Government of Ireland or with any road body. We do not imply that our material is accepted as official material.

We do not accept payment for publishing material or for removing material. If that changes in future, it will be stated clearly and it will not affect the purposes of the material.

If you have a question about the material or about this policy, you can write to [email protected]. Messages are answered on an editorial basis.