Several motorists driving over 120km near Cork village on Easter Saturday
On the first day of the operation, a Cork motorist driving at 82km/hr in a 50km/hr zone was one of more than 680 people detected speeding.
A Cork motorist driving at 133km/h was among more than 2,000 Irish people detected for speeding during a Garda roads policing operation over the Easter weekend.
The operation, running from 7am on Thursday until 7am on Tuesday, sees every on-duty garda in the country carrying out road traffic enforcement duties over the bank holiday weekend.
On the first day of the operation, a Cork motorist driving at 82km/hr in a 50km/hr zone was one of more than 680 people detected speeding.
On Saturday night, the Cork County Roads Policing Unit said that they had detected vehicles travelling at 133km/h, 125km/h, 123km/h and 120km/h on the N71 at Ballinhassig, which has a speed limit of 100km/h, while a further driver was issued with a fixed charge notice for mobile phone use while driving.
During the first 72 hours of the operation up to Sunday, there were no fatalities as a result of traffic collisions on our roads. The total number of fatalities on Irish roads this year is 43.
Over the course of the 2025 campaign, there were three fatalities on Irish roads and 11 serious collisions took place that resulted in 12 people receiving serious and life-threatening injuries.
Up to Sunday this year, a total of 98 people across Ireland were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant, in excess of 2,100 drivers were detected for speeding and over 250 people were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.
Every member of An Garda Síochána on-duty over the long weekend will be out conducting road traffic enforcement activity.
A garda spokesperson said: “Gardaí will be placing a particular emphasis on detecting those driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs this weekend.
It comes as The Echo recently revealed that across Cork, the number of roads policing gardaí has declined by 40% from 2009 to February 2026.
Cork city had 51 gardaí assigned to the roads policing division in 2009, the first year for which figures are available. This had fallen to 39 in 2016, 31 in 2023, and 28 in 2024, before rising slightly to 29 in February 2026.
Cork county had 68 roads policing gardaí in 2009, reducing to 55 in 2016, 41 in 2023, and 42 in both 2024 and February 2026.
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