An Emergency Medical Technician with the Custume Barracks Air Ambulance is urging motorcyclists to stop the blame game and take ownership of their mistakes.
Diarmaid Corcoran is also encouraging bikers to 'take that second look' and use a designated track if they want to ride their bike at speed.
The call from Diarmaid who's a biker himself comes as the number of motorbike fatalities here soared to 18 so far this year.
The Air Corp EMT says he attended two bike fatalities within hours of each other in Westmeath and Louth last year and that led to him wondering what can be done to stop the increase in deaths: