Title: Road signs in Ireland - Wikipedia
Headings: Road signs in Ireland
Road signs in Ireland
Contents
Republic of Ireland
Legal basis
Directional signage
Typefaces and colours
Types of sign available
Destination signing policy
Motorway / high quality dual carriageway signage
Original design
Current signing policy
Future amendments under consideration
Regulatory signs
Warning signs
Roadwork signs
Obsolete signage
Earlier directional signage
Earlier warning signs
Northern Ireland
See also
References
External links

Content: Directional signage
Typefaces and colours
Black-on-white regional road sign in Irish and English, showing Guildford Rules patching for the N75 and the M8
A simpler black-on-white regional road sign
White-on-green national road sign
White-on-green national road signs
White-on-blue motorway road sign. An example of Advance Directional Signage (ADS)
A cantilever sign on the N11
Directional signage in the Republic of Ireland is fairly similar to the United Kingdom design. All Irish text is in italic print, in lower case lettering with initial letters in capitals. Irish script is inclined at 15 degrees to the vertical. The Irish text is placed above the corresponding English. All English text is in upper case Roman alphabet. The Transport Heavy and Motorway typefaces are used, although the Irish language text uses a distinctive oblique variant, in which letters a are represented by script a ( ɑ ), and letters i were represented by dotless i ( ı) in order to better differentiate them from their accented forms, however, the normal letter i is now used frequently. Additionally, the capitals M, N and A are similar in appearance to lowercase m, n and a. Only the Irish place name is shown if the sign is in the Gaeltacht, or the official name in English is identical to the Irish name or nearly so (for example Dún Laoghaire or Port Laoise ). Due to the practice of signposting in both languages, usually a limited number of destinations will be signposted. If a destination can be reached by following a route which is a spur from that route, the destination and route number will be shown in brackets.