Checkpoints on motorways, dual carriageways to cease as country moves to level 3

Mobile checkpoints in support of over 100 individual checkpoints on main Irish routes will continue to operate, however. File Picture: Andy Gibson

Members of An Garda Síochána will no longer operate checkpoints on motorway and dual-carriageway routes, it has been announced.

The move comes as gardaí alter their policing operations as the country moves from level 5 to level 3 of the Government’s ‘living with Covid Plan’ tomorrow.