A campaign to improve and modernise the national road network has been launched by a new alliance of organisations representing two hundred thousand road users. They say the state of the roads is holding back economic development particularly in the west.

Report shows bridge in County Leitrim which is on the main Dublin-Sligo Road.

Heavy truck crossing bridge.

Bus and car driving through the narrow gap in an old town wall.

Container truck negotiating a corkscrew bend.

Interview with Oliver Haslette, Chairman, National Road Users, on the ambitions of the alliance of road users.

Bends in road filmed from inside a vehicle.

The reporter is Eileen Magnier.

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