The N20 main Cork to Limerick is a disgrace also,especially around buttevant.

A bad bend never killed anyone. Trying to take a bad bend and 100kph is what kills people. When I started driving my instructor told me that if you’re on a road you’re unfamiliar with, assume every bend is bad and take it slowly. Some of the best driving advice I’ve even gotten.

There’s worse than them I’m sure we all know of a few in our own area!

Didn’t research this too well, picture 8 and 10 are the same even though one is in Limerick and the other is in Westmeath !

I was always told it doesn’t matter how great a driver your are rather it’s how bad the other person coming around the bend is.

that’s nothing. check out the Trim to Kildalkey, Meath. It is 6 miles long and has 58 bends!!!!

I’m not joking I actually counted them.

Do the people in Ardloy actually know what a bend is? Let them come to Wicklow and travel the N11 from Rathnew to Arklow – single lane carriageway, multiple bends, trees – you name, it we’ve got it! But I don’t see any pictures of them.

the N69 Bolane has actually been bypassed since, so you can mark that one off your list.

Just slow down.

hope they don’t fix by putting in round abouts. and the councils should stop resurfacing roads in towns thats perfect and pay more attention to secondary roads outside these towns with potholes the size of the grand canyon

Mmm they haven’t been to Donegal then!

No. 2 actually looks like one if the straightest roads in Ireland.

Many roads follow routes laid out in the 1800s and had to go around the borders of wealthy demesne lands. Many landlords would not cooperate with the road building commission.

The actual bends are not the problem. It’s the twits driving like idiots are the real problem. Drive responsibly, arrive alive.

while their at it why doesn’t Ireland drag itself into the 21st century and standardise the sigh posts across The country and chuck out the old dolly mixture set up that is currently there….
in fact I would go one better…
appoint a Td and dept who’s sole responsibility is to sort out Irish roads PERIOD…
it’s a damn embarrassment and what’s far more serious is the deaths caused by crazy signage…
point in question…
n7 meeting m50 in Dublin on way into town… signs hanging over junction rather then repeater signs dotted coming up to junction so people can correctly identify their lanes and possibly lane painting to boot….
that’s a major problem in Ireland where no repeat signage is used and as a result people getting into a panic as they approach junctions and as a result Accidents…..
it’s not rocket science…….!!!!!

The Pike bend on the Waterford -Cork road just outside Dungarvan. Now that’s a bend like it will never finish. Was reduced to a 60 but there is always fools well over that.

my husband always says it’s a pity the Romans never invaded this country – we’d have nice straight, well built roads if they had!!!

I guess they have not been on the R125 Kilkock road either. Some impressive bends on that, including one for which you have to drop to second gear. And let’s not forget the fun that is the Wicklow Mountains and Sally Gap area, where there are some rather special bends.

I can never drive on a bendy road without thinking of that awful yet ultimately successful ( for me anyway) ad from years ago with the child out walking on a country road and the car speeding along with the louis armstrong soundtrack…I drive my husband demented when he is driving and i am constantly saying slow down, you don’t know who or what is around the corner and then cite that ad…(appreciating all the while of course that i am the worlds most annoying passenger).

The N11 between Rathnew and Arklow bypasses would put all these bends to shame. But they cant very well bring peoples attention to it because we might remember that work was supposed to be done on it 10 years ago. At the start of every year we are told that THIS year it will be done but nothing happens. Its a pure disgrace.

for being shite.

Once made scutter of a motorbike at that bend in Westmeath, it’s particularly nasty.

Too much grass, not enough trees.

Pic 6 is the N80 not N60, but no matter what name they put on the road, it definitely deserves to be listed. Despite the severity of the bends, I have only once come across an accident on it in last 12 years.

Pic 8 and pic 10 are the same *le gasp!*

There are far worst bends then that, half ass job NRA. I wonder how much that cost

The bend at Southill in Westmeath no longer exists. That was corrected a couple of months ago.

Hey cmon NRA what about connemara?? N59)….

what about 21 bends in enniskerry??

Why are there pictures of 2 mile or more stretches of road when the list was of bends. Doesn’t even highlight on the pictures where the bend is!

the biggest problem on irish roads is the nut5 behind the wheel !.

The one in Sligo cannot, in any sense of the word, be called a “bend”.

We have some of the worst roads in the world considering the amount of money taken by the govt for roads through road tax, insurance ,NCT fee, petrol, vechicle maintainance.
where the F**K is all this money going because its not going into roads.

I navigate the N52 weekly. Its like a corkscrew in parts and has one of the highest fatality rates in the country. Im surprised its not listed. Yes, there is some work going on in parts, but not nearly enough for what passes as the major link road between the midlands and the northeast.

The pot holes where we are are now so bad if the roads are wet and you can’t see them they wreck your car ! Soon we won’t be able to get out !!No good fixing main roads if we can’t get on them.Tipp have some of the worst roads in the country always know when we are back home by the state of them Icould put up with a few bends in the road we have worse round here.So lets just make roads drivable NSA thanks.

The N55 between Ballinagh in Co Cavan and Granard in Longford has to be one of the worst roads in the country. Corkscrew bends some thru a bog and no margins on either side. This road forms part of the route from the north to the west. A nightmare for poor truck drivers.

Seems ye can’t critise the NRA or your comment will be taken down.
Freedom my arse.

What about the N86 between Annascaul & Lispole surely the Bánnóg has to be the most severe curve on an National route anywhere in Europe !!

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In my humble opinion those bends are not so bad. Why don’t we spend money on things that are really important. We’ve waste a lot on roads in the past , empty motorways and bridges that we have to pay for even if they are not generating income from tolls. I’d like to see the money going on underprivileged children, the elderly, on helping people not to loose their homes, hospitals . Roads would be way down my list.

Re Pic6 – shouldn’t Theresa May the Home Secretary and MP for Maidenhead do something about the bad bend in her constituency ?

You obviously don’t drive much if you think they’re bad bends. Fail

the prob is that they are using google maps and well they cant get a clear enough zoom on donegal with cloud cover.. thats my excuse for it no wait… they dont give a damn about the roads up there… prob best not to fix the bends though to keep the speed down..#

Minister for road safety has not been in his office since he took up the post,too busy making more money on radio.Paid that huge salary,and never shows up at his appointed office.Only in Ireland