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In the first quarter of 2025, some 6,073 Fixed Charge Notices were handed out to motorists. Alamy Stock Photo

New speed camera in the South-East will become operational on Friday

It will become operational at midday this coming Friday.

A NEW SPEED camera in the South-East will become operational later this week.

The static speed camera is in place on the N80 in Co Carlow between Barristown and Levitstown and will commence operation from 12 midday on Friday, 23 May.

Prosecution of speeding offences takes place by Fixed Charge Notice and the current Fixed Charge Notice is a €160 fine, accompanied by three penalty points.

With the addition of the static speed camera in Co Carlow, there are now seven operational speed cameras, with the others being on the N17 Mayo, N59 Galway, N13 Donegal, N69 Limerick, R772 Wexford and the N22 Cork.

There are also 58 GoSafe mobile safety cameras operational across 1,500 locations, as well as safety cameras operated by gardaí.

In addition to this, there are also five Average Safety Cameras in operation, in the Dublin Port Tunnel and on the M7, N3 Cavan, N5 Mayo and N2 Meath.

Meanwhile, in the first quarter of 2025, a total of 6,073 Fixed Charge Notices (FCNs) were handed out to motorists.

Some 2,385 of these were generated by the static speed camera on the N17 in Mayo, and these come after a technical issue having been resolved at this site.

Almost 1,900 fixed charge notices issued on the N17 in Mayo between December 2024 and February 2025 were revoked due to an “error” with the speed camera.

The N17 speed safety camera system went live on 20 December 2024.

However, it was not operational between 1 January 2025 and 17 January 2025 as it had been vandalised.

Some 1,871 were issued between 20 December 2024 and 12 February and were revoked due to the error.

The camera was certified on 13 February and has been operational since 14 February.

Elsewhere, 1,581 FCNs were generated by the static speed camera on the N13 in Co Donegal, and 1,004 by the average safety camera on the M7.

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    Mute Dave s
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    May 20th 2025, 1:18 PM

    There is a climbing lane on the steep hill out of Dungarvan heading for Waterford and it’s a 60kph zone.
    Now that’s a money racket if I ever saw one.
    Shooting fish in a barrel.
    Nothing about road safety here.

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    Mute Paul O'Mahoney
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    May 20th 2025, 1:25 PM

    @Dave s: Are they putting a camera there too?

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    Mute Wolfgang Bonow
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    May 20th 2025, 1:28 PM

    @Dave s: “Shooting fish in a barrel.” – I don’t see a problem here.
    Looks like the “fish” are too dense to follow the rules = well deserved.

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    Mute Me Me
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    May 20th 2025, 1:29 PM

    @Dave s: With a sharp left hand bend at the top. If you are going too fast in the climbing lane when you take the bend not only will you drift out into the overtaking lane but you could drift further out into the oncoming traffic going towards Dungarvan/Waterford. It’s 60 kph for a reason.

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    Mute Jack Hayes
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    May 20th 2025, 1:52 PM

    @Dave s: If I wanted to catch fish, the opportunity to shoot them in a barrel would be high up on my wish list. You don’t really understand how a lot of the world works I’m guessing.

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    Mute Jack Hayes
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    May 20th 2025, 1:53 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: I think he’d rather put more money, time, resources in the off-chance they catch harder to find law-breakers. It’s a weird thought process for sure.

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    May 20th 2025, 2:05 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: A reoccurring problem forever until we deal with infrastructure. Our inabilities here have become employment, now there are so many people employed to keep everything so close threadbare that it’s actually getting harder harder to build what should have been in in place 20 years ago… a ‘plan’… lets keep whipping each other tho, certainly The Journal is making some money from this circular economy

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    Mute Dave Sherman
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    May 21st 2025, 7:53 AM

    @Me Me: It was 80 for years,

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    Mute Andrew Kenny
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    May 20th 2025, 1:28 PM

    Speed is relative. Speed doesn’t kill. Bad driving kills.

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    Mute Me Me
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    May 20th 2025, 1:29 PM

    @Andrew Kenny: Speed increases reaction distance.

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    Mute Nick Gall
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    May 20th 2025, 3:31 PM

    @Andrew Kenny: Well there’s plenty of that, on the Emerald Isle.

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    Mute CP
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    May 20th 2025, 3:58 PM

    @Nick Gall: land of no feck!n indicators

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    Mute Kylie More-Rode - Ballyer Drag Queen
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    May 20th 2025, 1:08 PM

    One camera? Is there even film in it?

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    May 20th 2025, 1:12 PM

    @Kylie More-Rode – Ballyer Drag Queen: No – they are digital.

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    May 20th 2025, 1:14 PM

    *wooosh

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    Mute David Stapleton
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    May 20th 2025, 2:11 PM

    I can’t help feeling that it says something about Ireland when the installation of a speed camera is a news worthy item.

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    Mute David O toole
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    May 20th 2025, 1:48 PM

    That one on the n80 is badly needed 6 lives lost on that stretch of road in the last 18 months or so. Notorious for speed and bad bends aswell on that road. Slow down, it saves lives

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    Mute Nemethon
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    May 20th 2025, 1:11 PM

    Good we need more cameras more GoSsfe vans too manyasshats speeding on our roads

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    Mute 087 bed
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    May 20th 2025, 1:44 PM

    @Nemethon: Gosafe vans! More like cash in transit vans.

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    Mute Wolfgang Bonow
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    May 20th 2025, 1:47 PM

    @087 bed: If you want to donor your cash by not following the rules, nobody else to blame but yourself.

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    May 20th 2025, 5:18 PM

    @Nemethon: we need a camera in your bedroom. You know, for your safety.
    Then again we will need to pay for the therapy for whoever watches it…

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    Mute Wolfgang Bonow
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    May 20th 2025, 7:09 PM

    @Termaz FX: Oooh, now you showed him!
    But, he is right. Driving behaviour is on an all time low.
    Everybody who drives regularly will tell you. Speeding, tailgating, dangerous lane changes.
    You cannot barely drive a few minutes without seeing any of these. The few minutes might be generous.

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    May 20th 2025, 1:26 PM

    Good to see then on rural roads, 70% of road deaths are on these type of roads.

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    May 20th 2025, 2:00 PM

    @Allo Allo: Roads that are 100′s of years old, narrow winding unkept, carrying commercial, industrial, private vehicles AND joggers, cyclists, horses… what could possibly go wrong in lazy auld Eire!…

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    Mute Tommy
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    May 20th 2025, 2:13 PM

    This should be rolled out nationwide and also should be allowed to capture dangerous driving too.

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    Mute Coldfilter Coldfilter
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    May 20th 2025, 3:54 PM

    Lovely jubbly,Exchequer, and Go Safe salivating at the thought of more easy money masquerading as road safety.Everyone knows the locations selected are a cash cow and easy targets.The virtue signalling contributers on this site will be in uproar no doubt but never address the real issues such as the roads,slow drivers, bad signage and the dramatic increase in traffic on the road post covid.The usual suspects will demand that all road limits be lowered to 20k and the way things are going we will be back to the ass and cart.They still will probably blame speed!

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    Mute Aidan Mcguire
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    May 20th 2025, 3:30 PM

    If only there was a way to avoid getting a speeding ticket….Anyone who gets one fully deserves it..Nobody is as good a driver as they think they are .

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    May 21st 2025, 6:24 AM

    @Aidan Mcguire: Maybe Max Verstappen?

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    Mute RIP
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    May 20th 2025, 1:55 PM

    The Nut cases are on the back roads, period

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    May 20th 2025, 7:58 PM

    @RIP: The N of the N80 indicates its a National Road.
    Not a back road, as you eloquently and incorrectly bluttered.

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    May 20th 2025, 1:25 PM

    Good to see then on rural roads, 70% of road deaths are on these roads.

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    May 20th 2025, 2:01 PM
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    Mute did you every wonder
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    May 20th 2025, 2:07 PM

    They should be using drone technologies. Would cover so many more roads and areas.

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    May 20th 2025, 6:44 PM

    @did you every wonder: why a drone ??? When the CPU in most cars of the last 10 years is capable of recording your driving .. no need for any of this stuff… The tech to cut out all dangerous driving habits is already in the car … Just no appetite to legislate to use it! Why ?? Allow hundreds of people to be killed and maimed every year .. keeps insurance premiums up .. keeps fines rolling in … And before the civil liberties band wagon rolls by … If the same amount of people were killed or maimed in a terrorist attack the legislation to prevent it happening again would be in place within a week

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    Mute Karl Paul
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    May 20th 2025, 9:06 PM

    For a country with approx 100,000 kilometres of road, we have very few speed cameras.

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    May 20th 2025, 4:15 PM

    Huge news. This is massive.

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    Mute Frank Kelly
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    May 21st 2025, 10:00 AM

    What is the GoSafe van doing at Newlands Cross at peak time when traffic can bearly exceed 10 KPH ????

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