NEW: They’re out there waiting for you

Another bank holiday weekend: another huge surge in penalty points is on the way.

The top 5 penalty point offences in Ireland are:

Speeding

Holding a mobile phone

Unaccompanied learner driver

Driving without reasonable consideration

NCT.

Of those 5 the Gardai will be focusing hugely on the first 2 ie speeding and mobile phones.

But they’ll also be focusing on drink and drug driving and seatbelt offences.

For decades bank holiday weekends have been the times when road fatalities increased.

But they are also times when Gardai are out in force issuing tickets.

And not just the Roads Policing Units: all Gardai.

Garda management exert significant pressure on all Gardai to issue tickets during bank holiday weekends.

So you’ll see a lot of them out there.

And a lot of speed vans.

You need to be careful on the roads this weekend.

Drive safely.