Road safety campaigners in Donegal have expressed dismay at proposals to increase the speed limit on a key route from Derry to Moville on the Inishowen peninsula.
Inishowen has one of the State's highest rates of road deaths with a number of multiple-fatality crashes in recent years.
The R238 Muff to Quigley's Point is earmarked for an increase from 80km/h to 100km/h. It has been the scene of at least eight fatal crashes in just over a decade.
This is the first stretch of road coming across the Border from Derry and heading along the coast of Lough Foyle towards Moville in Co Donegal.
Gardaí acknowledge speeding is a problem and that many of the crashes have been speed-related.
Official Garda figures show that the 6.4 km (four-mile) stretch was the scene of at least 36 crashes between 1994 and 2005. These included six fatal crashes, seven where people were seriously injured, eight where there were minor injuries and 15 where there was material damage to vehicles.
On a nearby road, five young people were killed in a two-car crash in October 2005. A few miles away on the Buncrana-Derry road, four Latvians and a Lithuanian were killed in February 2006.
Mary Clinton of the Donegal-based Action Campaign for Education Against Road Tragedies, said she was "appalled" to learn that the speed limit was to be increased. She described it as "insensitive" to the families of those who have been killed across the county.
The change is part of an overall review of speed limits on 10 stretches of roads in Donegal, scheduled to come into effect in May.