Gardaí turn back holiday-makers in major operation at border

Holiday homes above the Tra More Beach in Downings village on the Atlantic Ocean in north Co Donegal. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A major garda operation along the Donegal border has seen hundreds of cars being turned back under the new Covid-19 restrictions.

The checkpoint was set up along the Donegal border with Derry at Bridgend in the past couple of hours.