Watch: 'Someone is going to be killed unless something is done'

A concerned local has posted a video of motorists recklessly breaking a red light at Dunkineely National School.

There have been ongoing concerns at the school, which have been raised at the Donegal Joint Policing Committee and the Donegal Municipal District.

"This believe it or not is a regular occurrence at Dunkineely National School as we try to safely cross the road with our children," Kelly Murphy posted with the video, which was taken just after 2pm on Thursday with the junior and senior infant children having just finished for their day. "Someone is going to be killed unless something is done. Two cars breaking the lights!!" 

Donegal Town Roads Policing Unit have assisted at Dunkineely National School, where road safety has been considered a major concern for some time. The ongoing issue came into the spotlight recently when a truck hit a kerb and narrowly missed a group of schoolchildren last autumn. Since then, parents have been using homemade signs to appeal to motorists to slow down. 

“The children were left traumatised,” Councillor Niamh Kennedy told a meeting of the Donegal Joint Policing Committee at the time.

Also, last October, Councillor Noel Jordan via a motion, seconded by Councillor Kennedy, asked the MD to call on the relevant departments to address the road safety issues at Dunkineely National School. He said that an ‘emergency’ application that had been sent in by the Board of Management of the School, had already been rejected by the Department of Education.