Gardaí have resumed the countrywide crackdown on non-essential travel – Operation Fanacht.
The operation (which previously ran from 8 April until 13 April) got back underway on the country’s roads at 7 am and it will remain in place until the end of the Bank Holiday weekend – Monday night.
At any one time there will be over 2,500 gardai involved in checkpoint activity or high visibility patrolling.
It will again involve large-scale checkpoints on many main routes, and thousands of mobile checkpoints on secondary routes and in towns and villages.
The operation will also see gardaí conduct high visibility patrols at major tourist locations, parks and natural beauty spots to ensure compliance with restrictions.
