{"id":630937,"date":"2026-09-21T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630937\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:40:11","slug":"traffic-restrictions-to-affect-dublin-drivers-on-monday-as-eu-transport-ministers-meet-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630937\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic restrictions to affect Dublin drivers on Monday as EU transport ministers meet \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Localised and temporary traffic restrictions will be in place on Monday due to an informal meeting of EU transport ministers at Dublin Castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The meeting takes place over Sunday, September 20th, and Monday, September 21st, forming part of the presidency of the Council of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Temporary parking restrictions were introduced in the Ballsbridge area on  Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, the Garda said:  \u201cTraffic restrictions will be kept to the minimum required and it is intended that any impact on the public will be localised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Members of the public are asked to comply with garda\u00ed on duty in the event of encountering any rolling road closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Monday, there will be localised, temporary traffic restrictions and rolling road closures to facilitate security escorts between 8.30am and 9.30am between Ballsbridge and Dublin Castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Merrion Road, Mespil Road, Leeson Street, St Stephen\u2019s Green, Kevin Street, Bride Street and adjoining roads will be primarily affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Normal operations will continue at Dublin Airport at all times as attendees arrive and depart on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of road closures are in place as part of a policing and security operation at Dublin Castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Castle Street, Ship Street Little and Ship Street Great are closed to traffic and pedestrians until December 31st, 2026. However, local access is facilitated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said: \u201cOur objective is to continue to share as much information with the public where necessary as soon as we are in a position to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe ask members of the public to heed the advice and instructions of garda\u00ed and we thank them for their co-operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Operational plans are subject to change for security and operational reasons and real-time updates will be provided, where appropriate, the Garda  said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Localised and temporary traffic restrictions will be in place on Monday due to an informal meeting of EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,17467,62613,61,60,43,45546],"class_list":["post-630937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ballsbridge","tag-dublin-castle","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-st-stephen-s-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630937","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=630937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}