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A TOTAL OF 914 speeding fine notices have been revoked after the incorrect location was inputted into the gardaí’s internal processing system.
Speeding fines can typically be revoked if the incorrect location is written on the notice issued by gardaí to motorists.
In this case, the error only effected fines issued from a static speed camera on the N25 in Co Kilkenny between 30 May and 30 June.
The location of the camera was inputted incorrectly to the internal garda processing system due to human error.
Road users impacted by this will receive a letter in the post in the coming days and weeks. If they have further concerns, they can ring the FCN Help Desk at 0818 50 60 80.
Of the 914 fines, 128 were paid, and penalty points were issued. A total of 56 fines were paid, but the error was identified before penalty points were issued.
The remaining 730 notices have now since been voided and all offences will be revoked by gardaí. No court summons were issued in any of the cases.
“The error was rectified immediately upon its discovery on the 30 June 2025 and the Static Safety Camera resumed operations with detections from the 4 July 2025 being valid,” a spokesperson for gardaí said.
Garda management has informed the Departments of Justice and Transport, the Policing and Community Safety Authority, the Road Safety Authority and the Safety Camera Board of the matter.
“An Garda Síochána takes full responsibility for this error and have completed a review of all offence locations associated with Static and Average Safety Cameras,” it added.
Chief Superintendent Roads Policing David Harrington said the error is “regretted”.
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And people think they have it bad here. As bad as people claim this country is we do look after the poorest members of society. I would say the majority of our homeless issues are drug or alcohol related and not so much due to the fact there is no financial help available.
Absolutely. A lot of people here don’t know how good they have it
Not just financial help but mental health services. Not to mention all manner of support to ex military. US has a shocking number of homeless
Bloody hell, let them have their shanty towns/ buildings, at least until somebody has a better offer?
Meanwhile trillions of dollars paid on defence and monitoring people’s emails.
That country is going the way of all empires.
It’s fascinating, yet disheartening, to watch.
Land of the free
Bulldozing their shacks doesn’t sound like freedom does it.
Imagine our county councils bulldozing traveler halting sites. There would be an outcry. It wouldn’t happen in Ireland.
23 thousand homeless kids in New York City, the richest city in the richest country in the world yet their government spends over 50% of their tax take on a military of global conquest proportions…..there is something rotten in the state of Denmark.
Didn’t look that bad on The Wire.
As of 2013, more than 15% of the U.S. population receive food assistance, costing $76 billion. This was not the American dream.
“It’s all in the game, y’all”
The present administration is hostile to small and medium size business through over regulation and mandates which make it hard to start and expand business to create jobs. The public school system is a joke and getting worse so the labor force is not prepared for high skilled jobs. Many homeless are also mentally ill and the working poor who have jobs but cannot afford proper housing. But progress has been made, another state is moving toward legalising marijuana and a baptist is giving out guns to attract new members. All is not lost.
Land of the free….yeah right!
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