New camera caught 212 drivers speeding

Despite ample signage, warning motorists travelling in both directions, about the operation of new speed cameras, at least one driver a day has been ticketed for exceeding the legally permitted speed on the N3 by the recently installed Average Speed Camera.

A total of 212 Fixed Charge Penalty Notices have been issued since the speed cameras was first installed on October 24, 2024, between Kilduff near Belturbet and at Billis just outside Cavan Town.

Despite their visible presence there for just shy of 150 days, up to last Sunday, March 2, 2025, people were still getting caught for driving above the posted 100kmph limit between the two points.

The current Fixed Charge Notice is €160 fine accompanied by three penalty points.

Details of the number caught to date in Cavan come as An Garda Síochána launched another average speed detection site on the N2 (Slane) in neighbouring Co Meath.

Static-speed safety cameras have been proven internationally to reduce speeding and the Cavan and Meath sites join other locations in on the N59 (Galway), N25 (Waterford), R772 (Wicklow), N14 (Donegal), N80 (Carlow), Dublin (Dolphin’s Barn), N17 (Mayo), N22 (Cork), and N69 (Limerick).

An Garda Síochána also meanwhile confirmed that “all certificates of calibration for cameras used at average speed, static locations and in safety camera vans are valid.”

The statement was issued of the back of news last week that An Garda Síochána had begun the process of writing to motorists to inform them that fines and penalty points issued for speeding on the N17 in Mayo, detected by the static speed safety camera system between December 20, 2024 and February 12, 2025, were in the process of being revoked.

A total of 1,871 speeding fixed charge notices were issued nationally over this period, with nearly 800 paid and penalty points applied. A further 123 were paid, however the error was identified prior to penalty points being applied, and of the remaining 948 notices issued, no payment was made prior to the error being identified, therefore no penalty points were applied.

From now on An Garda Síochána says it will request “proof of camera calibration certification” when cameras are installed and/or changed rather than at prosecution stage.

GoSafe has also put in place its own set of measures in an attempt to prevent any such reoccurrence, including weekly confirmation of the certification status of all speed safety cameras.