The Road Safety Authority (RSA), the County and City Management Association and the Gardai are calling on all landowners to cut their hedgerows before March 1 to ensure they are not causing a potential serious road safety hazard.
Overgrown hedgerows and roadside verges can result in road fatalities and serious injury collisions.
They also pose difficulties for pedestrians and cyclists and to trucks and agricultural vehicles carrying loads, especially on local rural roads in the case of sightlines at junctions or obstructions to road signs.
