DUBLIN — 1 October 2026 — Speeding fines in Ireland are rising fast, and mostly without a Garda in sight. The Garda’s latest quarterly roads policing statistics, which run to the end of June, show 61,338 speeding fixed charge notices in the second quarter of 2026. That’s about 674 a day and 45% more than in the same three months of 2025.
Cameras, not checkpoints
The Garda split speeding notices into those issued after a roadside stop and those issued without one, which come mainly from GoSafe vans and fixed cameras. Notices without a stop rose 65%, from 30,547 to 50,546. Notices after a Garda stop actually fell 7%, from 11,641 to 10,792. 82% of speeding fines now come without a roadside stop.
Since February 2026, every month has topped 19,000 speeding notices, higher than any month in 2025. That step-up followed the Garda switching on 390 new GoSafe camera zones on 1 January. March 2026 was the busiest month in the data, with 22,375.
Two divisions, 39% of the country’s fines
Waterford/Kilkenny issued 12,862 speeding notices in April–June 2026, up 362% on a year earlier. Kildare/Carlow issued 10,827, up 215%. Between them that’s 39% of all speeding fines in Ireland, from four counties that hold about 10% of the population. In both, 93% of notices came without a roadside stop.
Both divisions more than doubled their monthly notices in June 2025, the first full month after static speed cameras went live on the N80 at Graiguenaspiddoge, Co. Carlow (23 May) and the N25 at Ballynamona, Co. Kilkenny (30 May). The Garda don’t publish fines per camera, though, and not every camera area followed the same pattern. Wexford/Wicklow, which got a static camera at Gorey in May 2025, issued 23% fewer notices a year later.
Up in Limerick, down in Mayo
Limerick more than doubled, to 5,021, with June 2026 its busiest month yet. Laois/Offaly rose 57% and Meath/Westmeath 39%. The biggest fall was in Mayo/Roscommon/Longford, down 44% to 3,377, with fewer notices in every quarter of the data. Donegal fell 30%. Dublin, home to 28% of the population, accounted for only 13% of speeding fines.
Our speeding statistics report has month-by-month charts, every Garda division side by side, the share of fines from Garda stops in each area, and the full dataset to download. We update it each quarter.
About these figures
The numbers come from An Garda Síochána’s Roads Policing Q2 2026 statistics, taken from the Fixed Charge Processing System on 4 August 2026. The Garda describe them as operational and liable to change. They count fines issued, not drivers or convictions. Population shares use Census 2022. The comparison is April–June 2026 against April–June 2025, the earliest quarter in the Garda’s current release.
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