A motorist travelling at 130km\/h in a 60km\/h zone – more than twice the speed limit – in Co Cavan was among over 100 drivers detected speeding yesterday during a garda roads policing operation.<\/p>\n
The operation is running over the course of the June bank holiday weekend, having begun at 7am on Thursday, and ending next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The driver found to be doing over twice the legal limit was travelling on the R188 at Drung in Cavan.<\/p>\n
One driver was found to be travelling at 85km\/h in a 50km\/h on Watery Lane in Swords in Dublin, while another on the N11 at Newtownmountkennedy in Wicklow was detected doing 141km\/h in a 100km\/h zone.<\/p>\n
A further driver in Co Meath was caught travelling at 124km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on the N51 at Dunmoe.<\/p>\n
So far this weekend, 56 people have been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have also said that so far during the operation, over 115 drivers have been caught on their mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have urged people to exercise caution when using the roads this weekend, and be mindful of pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist travelling at 130km\/h in a 60km\/h zone – more than twice the speed limit – in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-474748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}