# penalty-points - Thursday 23 January, 2020
Gardaí must prove they were exceeding the speed limit as they carried out their duty.
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# penalty-points - Monday 13 January, 2020
By far, the most common offence detected and which led to a driver being disqualified is speeding.
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# penalty-points - Saturday 28 December, 2019
The highest number of points were in Dublin, with 106,545.
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# penalty-points - Monday 25 November, 2019
Under the new system, drivers who speed excessively will be hit with heavier penalties.
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# penalty-points - Thursday 1 August, 2019
The matter has been adjourned until November.
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# penalty-points - Saturday 27 July, 2019
Marc Mac Sharry TD said the legacy of declining Garda numbers has had an impact on the drop in figures.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 9 July, 2019
The government has previously tried to implement the points system – in 2014, 2016 and 2018 – failing each time.
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# penalty-points - Wednesday 26 December, 2018
The highest number of points were in Dublin, with 108,104.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The general scheme of the Bill was approved this afternoon.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
A graduated penalty system for speeding will be introduced where the speed limit is exceeded by 30kph.
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Minister for Transport Shane Ross is proposing drivers should be fined in such instances.
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# penalty-points - Monday 1 October, 2018
Gardaí issued fixed charge penalty notices to the owners of vehicles parked on the same footpath.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
Motorists continue to park on cycle lane because they face no consequences for doing so, said the party.
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# penalty-points - Friday 10 August, 2018
The motorist was caught by gardaí in Dublin today.
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# penalty-points - Sunday 5 August, 2018
Transport Minister Shane Ross said he hopes to have a general scheme for the legislation ready by Christmas.
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# penalty-points - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
A retired assistant commissioner, and a superintendent in the communications section, gave evidence at Dublin Castle this morning.
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# penalty-points - Monday 5 February, 2018
Two points and an €80 fine for one motorist last year.
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# penalty-points - Thursday 28 December, 2017
The majority of drivers had three penalty points (400,502), while 59,404 had six points and 42,700 had two.
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# penalty-points - Friday 1 December, 2017
Gsoc today released a damning report showing the cancellation of around 75,000 fixed charge notices.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 14 November, 2017
I think it would be more in the government’s line to catch criminals who are breaking into elderly people’s homes and jail them, writes Michael Healy Rae.
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# penalty-points - Friday 3 November, 2017
Alan O’Callaghan was faced with a fixed charge penalty notice prosecution.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
Minister for Transport Shane Ross said he was willing to raise the points.
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# penalty-points - Thursday 15 June, 2017
Some of the offences related to under-17s passengers.
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# penalty-points - Wednesday 7 June, 2017
Since the introduction of penalty points Ireland’s male drivers have received the lion’s share of fixed charge notices for road infractions.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 6 June, 2017
Incurring penalty points can make your insurance more expensive and even disqualify you from driving.
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Some counties with the worst road fatality records in Ireland incur the least penalty points in the country.
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# penalty-points - Wednesday 12 April, 2017
“We are not going to encourage our players to go down,” said Stephen Kenny. “We have our values.”
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# penalty-points - Monday 19 December, 2016
The Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) said it was deeply concerned with the spike in numbers.
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# penalty-points - Friday 18 November, 2016
The RSA says increased penalty points have resulted in changes in the behaviour of drivers.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 21 June, 2016
The loophole has seen roughly 7,500 cases annually thrown out of court.
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# penalty-points - Saturday 7 May, 2016
More than 28,000 people were caught using their phone while driving last year.
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# penalty-points - Saturday 24 October, 2015
Or do they still deserve some privacy?
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 29 September, 2015
The Department of Justice has reported that 1,526 drivers avoided penalty points by donating to the court poor box from January 2014- May 2015.
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# penalty-points - Sunday 23 August, 2015
It’s Sunday and AA Ireland’s tongue is firmly in its cheek with this analysis.
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# penalty-points - Monday 22 June, 2015
A report recently highlighted the problem of non-endorsement of driving licences with penalty points.
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# penalty-points - Saturday 13 June, 2015
We’ll give you three guesses…
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# penalty-points - Saturday 18 April, 2015
And it’s all because of penalty points. Hang about though, it might not all be bad news…
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# penalty-points - Wednesday 1 April, 2015
The independent TD made the comments in the Dáil yesterday.
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# penalty-points - Wednesday 18 February, 2015
Anybody buying a second hand vehicle is being urged to check the number on the NCT disk.
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# penalty-points - Tuesday 27 January, 2015
A report found 114 penalty point cancellations required further investigation.
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Rain and drizzle; breezy this morning
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A couple of showers in the morning
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