Bank Holiday Speeding: Gardaí Catch 1,590 Drivers
The Garda roads policing operation, which targets speeding, drink and drug driving and mobile-phone and seat-belt offences over the long weekend, is due to continue until Tuesday, 4 August. Officers detected around 1,600 speeding offences in the opening 48 hours alone – close to 800 drivers a day. It comes against a grim backdrop for Irish road safety, with the number of people killed on the country’s roads so far this year standing at 108. You can follow more Irish news as the weekend continues.
