Key findings
- Speeding fines are up 45% in a year. Gardaí issued 61,338 speeding fixed charge notices in Apr–Jun 2026, against 42,188 in Apr–Jun 2025. The busiest month on record in this data was Mar 2026, with 22,375.
- Cameras are behind almost all of the rise. Notices issued without a roadside stop rose 65%, while notices after a Garda stop fell 7%. 82% of speeding fines now come without a stop.
- Two Garda divisions issue 39% of all speeding fines. Waterford/Kilkenny (12,862) and Kildare/Carlow (10,827) cover about 11% of Ireland’s population.
- Both doubled the month after static cameras switched on. In June 2025, the first full month after the N80 Carlow and N25 Kilkenny cameras went live, Kildare/Carlow went from 821 to 1,791 notices and Waterford/Kilkenny from 581 to 1,425. Not every camera area followed: Wexford/Wicklow fell 23%.
- Mayo/Roscommon/Longford is down 44%, the biggest fall in the country, with fewer notices in every quarter of the data.
- Dublin issues few speeding fines for its size. The Dublin Garda region accounted for 13% of notices, though County Dublin has 28% of the population.
Speeding fines month by month
The monthly count rose through 2025 and jumped again in early 2026. Since February 2026 every month has been above 19,000 — higher than any month in 2025. That step-up came straight after the Garda switched on 390 new GoSafe camera zones on 1 January 2026. December 2025 also stood out, at 18,596, the highest month of 2025.
Show the monthly figures as a table
| Month | Total | No roadside stop | Garda stop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2025 | 13,839 | 9,117 | 4,722 |
| May 2025 | 13,993 | 10,165 | 3,828 |
| Jun 2025 | 14,356 | 11,265 | 3,091 |
| Jul 2025 | 15,796 | 13,126 | 2,670 |
| Aug 2025 | 15,902 | 12,102 | 3,800 |
| Sep 2025 | 15,191 | 11,780 | 3,411 |
| Oct 2025 | 14,137 | 10,541 | 3,596 |
| Nov 2025 | 15,306 | 12,870 | 2,436 |
| Dec 2025 | 18,596 | 15,919 | 2,677 |
| Jan 2026 | 15,089 | 12,152 | 2,937 |
| Feb 2026 | 20,842 | 16,569 | 4,273 |
| Mar 2026 | 22,375 | 18,458 | 3,917 |
| Apr 2026 | 19,263 | 15,835 | 3,428 |
| May 2026 | 20,089 | 15,971 | 4,118 |
| Jun 2026 | 21,986 | 18,740 | 3,246 |
Cameras vs Garda stops
The Garda split speeding notices into two kinds. Intercept notices follow a Garda stopping the driver at the roadside. Non-intercept notices are issued without a stop — overwhelmingly from GoSafe vans and fixed cameras, which post the notice to the registered owner.
How you’re likely to be caught depends a lot on where you drive. In Kildare/Carlow and Waterford/Kilkenny only 7% of speeding notices followed a Garda stop. In Kerry it was 50%, and in the Dublin Eastern division 47%. You can sort the full table by Garda stops to compare every area.
Where speeding fines are rising and falling
Comparing Apr–Jun 2026 with the same months a year earlier, 13 of the 21 Garda divisions issued more speeding notices and 8 issued fewer. The rises were far bigger than the falls.
Limerick more than doubled, from 2,121 to 5,021, with June 2026 its busiest month yet (2,160). Laois/Offaly rose 57% and Meath/Westmeath 39%. At the other end, Mayo/Roscommon/Longford fell from 6,070 to 3,377, and its count has dropped every quarter. The figures alone can’t tell us whether drivers there slowed down or cameras spent fewer hours in the area.
Two divisions, 39% of Ireland’s speeding fines
Waterford/Kilkenny and Kildare/Carlow issued 23,689 speeding notices between them in Apr–Jun 2026 — more than the whole Dublin, North Western or Southern Garda regions. Over the 15 months in the data, Waterford/Kilkenny issued 44,407 and Kildare/Carlow 35,238, the two highest totals in the country. More than 90% of them came without a roadside stop.
Both charts show two jumps. The first came in June 2025, the first full month after Ireland’s static cameras on the N80 at Graiguenaspiddoge, Co. Carlow (live 23 May 2025) and the N25 at Ballynamona, Co. Kilkenny (live 30 May 2025) started working. The second jump came over the winter. In Kildare/Carlow it lines up with 1 January 2026, when the Garda added 30 new GoSafe zones in Kildare and Carlow as part of the 390 nationally. Waterford/Kilkenny’s second jump started earlier, in November 2025 — nothing the Garda have published explains that timing — and it then gained 25 new zones in January too.
The Garda don’t publish speeding notices per camera, so we can’t say how many came from the N80 and N25 cameras. And static cameras don’t always produce more fines: Wexford/Wicklow got one on the R772 at Gorey on 2 May 2025 and issued 23% fewer notices a year later. Mayo (N17) and Donegal (N13) also have static cameras and both fell. See every camera on our speed camera map.
Dublin: a quarter of the population, an eighth of the fines
The six Dublin Metropolitan Region divisions issued 7,732 speeding notices in Apr–Jun 2026, 13% of the national total. County Dublin has 28% of Ireland’s population. Lower urban speeds, more congestion and fewer long open roads are likely part of the reason. Dublin also relies more on Garda stops: in the Dublin Eastern division almost half of notices followed a stop. Notices are counted where the offence happened, not where the driver lives.
Speeding fines in every Garda division
Tap a column heading to sort. “Garda stops” is the share of speeding notices that followed a roadside stop in Apr–Jun 2026; a dash means the Garda withheld small counts for privacy.
| Q2 2025 | Share of Ireland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterford/Kilkenny Eastern region | 2,783 | 12,862 | +362% | 21.0% | 7% |
| Kildare/Carlow Eastern region | 3,434 | 10,827 | +215% | 17.7% | 7% |
| Limerick Southern region | 2,121 | 5,021 | +137% | 8.2% | 10% |
| Meath/Westmeath Eastern region | 2,515 | 3,486 | +39% | 5.7% | 12% |
| Mayo/Roscommon/Longford North Western region | 6,070 | 3,377 | −44% | 5.5% | 16% |
| Clare/Tipperary Southern region | 3,845 | 3,195 | −17% | 5.2% | 25% |
| Cork County Southern region | 2,643 | 3,027 | +15% | 4.9% | 24% |
| Louth/Cavan/Monaghan North Western region | 1,898 | 2,610 | +38% | 4.3% | 27% |
| Dublin Western (DMR) Dublin region | 2,705 | 2,465 | −9% | 4.0% | 26% |
| Wexford/Wicklow Eastern region | 2,508 | 1,943 | −23% | 3.2% | 38% |
| Laois/Offaly Eastern region | 1,118 | 1,756 | +57% | 2.9% | 36% |
| Dublin Eastern (DMR) Dublin region | 1,520 | 1,686 | +11% | 2.7% | 47% |
| Galway North Western region | 1,692 | 1,642 | −3% | 2.7% | 39% |
| Dublin Southern (DMR) Dublin region | 1,014 | 1,331 | +31% | 2.2% | 16% |
| Donegal North Western region | 1,855 | 1,299 | −30% | 2.1% | 15% |
| Dublin Northern (DMR) Dublin region | 1,239 | 1,228 | −1% | 2.0% | 39% |
| Cork City Southern region | 952 | 1,031 | +8% | 1.7% | 26% |
| Sligo/Leitrim North Western region | 723 | 864 | +20% | 1.4% | 16% |
| Kerry Southern region | 700 | 666 | −5% | 1.1% | 50% |
| Dublin North Central (DMR) Dublin region | 558 | 602 | +8% | 1.0% | 45% |
| Dublin South Central (DMR) Dublin region | 295 | 420 | +42% | 0.7% | 20% |
| Ireland | 42,188 | 61,338 | +45% | 100% | 18% |
Garda divisions mostly follow county lines, but not exactly, so treat county comparisons as approximate. Want the monthly figures for your area? Download the full dataset (CSV).
Speeding vs other driving offences
For the individual speeds behind these numbers — up to 237 km/h — see the fastest speeds caught in Ireland. Speeding produces far more fixed charge notices than any other offence the Garda report on. In Apr–Jun 2026 there were about 9 speeding notices for every one issued for holding a mobile phone while driving.
About the data
- What’s counted: speeding fixed charge notices — the €160, 3-point fine — by the month of the offence and the Garda division it happened in. It counts notices, not drivers or convictions. One driver can get several.
- Source: An Garda Síochána’s Roads Policing Q2 2026 statistics, taken from the Fixed Charge Processing System on 4 August 2026. The Garda describe the figures as operational and liable to change, so later reports may revise them slightly.
- Quarterly totals on this page are added up from the monthly figures. In the Garda’s own report, the July–September 2025 total for the Dublin South Central division reads 47,762, but its three months add up to 448. We’ve treated that as a typo and used the monthly figures. Every other quarterly total matches.
- Small numbers: the Garda withhold counts under 10. That affects four roadside-stop figures in two Dublin divisions in late 2025; we leave them blank.
- Population shares use Census 2022 county figures from the CSO.
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odo.ie (2026). Speeding statistics Ireland: the latest Garda figures by area. Analysis of An Garda Síochána Roads Policing Q2 2026 data. https://www.odo.ie/guides/speeding-statistics-ireland
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Frequently asked questions
Sources
- An Garda Síochána — Roads Policing Q2 2026 statistics (PDF)
- An Garda Síochána — roads policing statistics (all quarterly reports)
- An Garda Síochána — static safety camera locations and go-live dates
- An Garda Síochána — mobile safety camera expansion for 2026 (390 new zones)
- CSO — Census 2022 population by county (table F1001)
- Citizens Information — speeding fines and penalty points