LATEST: Bad news for Kildare motorists as road tolls to rise in January

Tolls on the M7 and M4 motorways as well as the M50 and the Dublin Tunnel, are set to increase in January. 

From 1 January most tolls are increasing by 20 cent per journey and heavy good vehicles tolls by 30 to 50 cent per journey, RTE reports. 

On the M1, M7 on the Kildare/Laois border, M8, N6, N25 at Waterford and N18 Limerick Tunnel the toll for cars is up 20c to €2.30.

On the M3, it is up 10c to €1.70 and on the M4 in north Kildare there is a 20c increase for cars to €3.40.

Tolls for the Dublin Tunnel are to increase by €2 for cars at peak times.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland said it was basing the increase on the annual rate of inflation that was recorded at the end of August – which it put at 6.3%.

On the M50, toll prices are increasing by between 20 and 40 cent.

For example, an unregistered car will pay a toll of €3.70 but a driver with a tag will pay €2.50.

It will be the second increase in tolls in less than a year, after toll charges on most of the country's national road network were increased in July.