Gardaí resume motorway checkpoints as more than 13k non-essential travel fines issued

Garda members on Covid-19 level 5 travel restirction checkpoint duty at Cork Airport. Picture: Dan Linehan

From this morning, gardaí have resumed checkpoints on "high volume" areas of motorways and dual carriageways across the country.

Gardaí say the checkpoints on motorways and surrounding routes are to "further strengthen the response" to the high levels of Covid-19 in the community.