An Garda Síochána - COVID19

zell12 · 11-01-2021 6:47pm

Fines of €100 to be issued immediately to people who travel beyond 5km from their home for exercise and refuse to comply with a direction to turn back.

People found in breach of this aspect of the Level 5 Covid-19 regulations will be informed of the penalty by the Garda who stops them and will receive a FCN

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0111/1189026-garda-covid/

PhilOssophy · 11-01-2021 9:45pm

zell12 wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0111/1189026-garda-covid/

They have made that promise before? They will ramp up the number of checkpoints and the associated overtime bill.

whisky_galore · 12-01-2021 7:41pm

You would need to be a complete imbecile to get fined.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/man-gets-travel-fine-after-23302926

Thats me · 12-01-2021 7:54pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

You would need to be a complete imbecile to get fined.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/man-gets-travel-fine-after-23302926

Whole day trying to imagine what that guy had to do to get imprisoned for 2 months :pac:

PhilOssophy · 13-01-2021 10:59am

Why are people given a chance to comply? FFS you are outside 5km, without an excuse, why say "Ah now go home like a good fella"?
The only thing that makes Irish people react is when something hits them in the pocket.

youandme13 · 13-01-2021 11:22am

PhilOssophy wrote: »

They have made that promise before? They will ramp up the number of checkpoints and the associated overtime bill.

Stop with this whole overtime bill. They are on duty doing checkpoints. Comply or pay the f*cking price, its pretty simple to understand!!

PhilOssophy · 13-01-2021 11:34am

youandme13 wrote: »

Stop with this whole overtime bill. They are on duty doing checkpoints. Comply or pay the f*cking price, its pretty simple to understand!!

Comply? More like "Ah come on, go home now like a good pet, don't make me get the book out". To me, whether you like it or not, this is not a good use of tax payers money - money which we are borrowing hand over fist at the moment.

The rules are simple but in true Irish style, we've made them ambigous - and you'd need to be an idiot to end up with a €100 fine.

People only get a fine if they refuse to comply, i.e. go home? FFS what a pointless exercise.

whisky_galore · 13-01-2021 7:47pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Why are people given a chance to comply? FFS you are outside 5km, without an excuse, why say "Ah now go home like a good fella"?
The only thing that makes Irish people react is when something hits them in the pocket.

Ah shur lookit don't want to be annoying people by fining them.

14-01-2021 3:18am

I went through a checkpoint on the Long Mile Road in Dublin today. Helicopters, blue lights everywhere, guards jumping on bonnets and dragging lads out of cars by the scruff and a good belt of the baton. Planting drugs on priests and setting the dogs on paramedics. Two guards going 'round stealing the wheels off cars in the indy dealers.

Seriously though, I noticed that no one was being asked to stop, with the exception of one car ahead of me that got pulled over. They had a tow truck waiting. When it was my turn at the front, the garda was just standing there with his phone aimed at my reg plate. So presumably they were just pulling people for no tax/insurance/nct on their cars, rather than anything to do with the reason for their journeys.

(that's the only checkpoint I've been through were they did that though - the others have been the usual disinterested 'Where are ya headed?' and the reply of 'Grand so' before I even get to answer).

SpacialNeeds · 14-01-2021 3:31am

All that fandango wrote: »

Fair enough I suppose. Decent answer compared to the absolute gobdaw above me posted.

Lol because I scrolled up and the post above you was you.

Thats me · 14-01-2021 10:13am

Deleted User wrote: »

I went through a checkpoint on the Long Mile Road in Dublin today. Helicopters, blue lights everywhere, guards jumping on bonnets and dragging lads out of cars by the scruff and a good belt of the baton. Planting drugs on priests and setting the dogs on paramedics. Two guards going 'round stealing the wheels off cars in the indy dealers.

:D

Deleted User wrote: »

the garda was just standing there with his phone aimed at my reg plate

Was it within 5km from the veichle registration address? It was said in the news Gardai has means to check this, so probably they now just checking it by scanning plates.

BTW, anybody heard about bicyclist or pedestrian charged for breaching 5km limit? Looks like only cars affected.

Dempo1 · 14-01-2021 10:27am

Thats me wrote: »

:D

Was it within 5km from the veichle registration address? It was said in the news Gardai has means to check this, so probably they now just checking it by scanning plates.

BTW, anybody heard about bicyclist or pedestrian charged for breaching 5km limit? Looks like only cars affected.

Seriously, do you think they are concerned about the 5km rule when pointing the mobility app at your registration? Not on your nelly, it's tax, insurance and NCT their checking, nothing more, nothing less.

Breezin · 14-01-2021 10:55am

Thats me wrote: »

:D
BTW, anybody heard about bicyclist or pedestrian charged for breaching 5km limit? Looks like only cars affected.

Yeah, and they were checking pedestrians reg's and confiscating their runners! :eek:

Dempo1 · 14-01-2021 11:01am

Funny recent Tweet on their Tweer account, Leitrim, the county were even crows flying over, bring a packed lunch was the location of a recent checkpoint, not a Tree, Blade of grass, Tumbleweed in sight, let alone car or bicycle. But glad to report compliance levels extremely high

Thats me · 14-01-2021 11:18am

Dempo1 wrote: »

Seriously, do you think they are concerned about the 5km rule when pointing the mobility app at your registration? Not on your nelly, it's tax, insurance and NCT their checking, nothing more, nothing less.

They should be since it is their job to enforce rules. And it is pretty easy to implement another check in addendum to tax&nct checks in the app.

14-01-2021 7:48pm

Thats me wrote: »

Was it within 5km from the veichle registration address? It was said in the news Gardai has means to check this, so probably they now just checking it by scanning plates.

I was way outside the 5km limit (work) but they never said anything to me, just waved me through.

whisky_galore · 14-01-2021 9:02pm

Thats me wrote: »

BTW, anybody heard about bicyclist or pedestrian charged for breaching 5km limit? Looks like only cars affected.

These (presumably lycra clad) gobsh1tes.

Two cyclists stopped near Carrick, Galway, not from same household, no social distancing, or face coverings, 19km from home and in another county. Claimed reasonable excuse of physical exercise, but were outside 5km applicable limit.

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/driver-told-return-home-checkpoint-19627321

JP Liz V1 · 14-01-2021 9:23pm

https://twitter.com/VirginMediaNews/status/1349813279682605058

Killinator · 15-01-2021 1:10am

Thats me wrote: »

:D

Was it within 5km from the veichle registration address? It was said in the news Gardai has means to check this, so probably they now just checking it by scanning plates.

BTW, anybody heard about bicyclist or pedestrian charged for breaching 5km limit? Looks like only cars affected.

Yes it's on rte about various people getting fined and there was cyclists mentioned

TheChizler · 15-01-2021 1:13am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Two cyclists stopped near Carrick, Galway, not from same household, no social distancing, or face coverings, 19km from home and in another county. Claimed reasonable excuse of physical exercise, but were outside 5km applicable limit.

Why the need to report they didn't have face coverings I wonder.

silverharp · 15-01-2021 10:44am

is the law different for this, normally its similar to the UK, if they ask you where you live or where you are going you have no obligation to tell them, you would at a minimum have to be detained on suspicion that you were committing a crime.

whisky_galore · 15-01-2021 10:55am

Dempo1 wrote: »

Funny recent Tweet on their Tweer account, Leitrim, the county were even crows flying over, bring a packed lunch was the location of a recent checkpoint, not a Tree, Blade of grass, Tumbleweed in sight, let alone car or bicycle. But glad to report compliance levels extremely high

They love patrolling and posting pics deserted trains and railway stations too.
Makes you wonder where these lads were when the troublemakers were using trains.

Tenzor07 · 15-01-2021 11:32am

TheChizler wrote: »

Why the need to report they didn't have face coverings I wonder.

Yea seems odd, "no face coverings"? It's not mandatory outdoors or when exercising... and "no social distancing" maybe they were on a tandem?

TheChizler · 15-01-2021 11:36am

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Yea seems odd, "no face coverings"? It's not mandatory outdoors or when exercising... and "no social distancing" maybe they were on a tandem?

Strange, might as well have noted the lack of an NCT, it's just as required.

Breezin · 17-01-2021 3:36pm

Fish in a barrel https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40208567.html

Don't quite get how stopping people wandering around some hills stops Covid, while beaches and parks in Dublin are thronged.

Stark · 18-01-2021 11:34am

TheChizler wrote: »

Strange, might as well have noted the lack of an NCT, it's just as required.

Welcome to the world of reporting on cyclists. It's like all the news articles reporting that a cyclist had no hi-viz in the middle of the day despite having to relevance to the story.

Don't like that the public anger always comes round to the likes of cyclists and hikers every time we **** the bed in the Covid fight. Activities that have contributed sweet **** all to the spread of covid. I guess they're far more visible than the socialising that goes on behind closed doors so easy target for political smokescreening.

silverharp · 18-01-2021 11:46am

Stark wrote: »

Welcome to the world of reporting on cyclists. It's like all the news articles reporting that a cyclist had no hi-viz in the middle of the day despite having to relevance to the story.

Don't like that the public anger always comes round to the likes of cyclists and hikers every time we **** the bed in the Covid fight. Activities that have contributed sweet **** all to the spread of covid. I guess they're far more visible than the socialising that goes on behind closed doors so easy target for political smokescreening.

an easy group to be labelled as untrustworthy outsiders and cover for the fact that everyone has broken "the rules" at some stage

zell12 · 19-01-2021 12:56pm

Man charged after refusing to comply with Garda direction in relation to travel restrictions
Gardaí in Naas, who were responding to a complaint, arrested a man in the vicinity of Punchestown Racecourse.

the kelt · 19-01-2021 1:19pm

I was stopped by a guard whilst out on my bike last saturday.

On my own and was outside of my 5k.

Guard simply asked me where i was coming from and where i was going, told him where i came from and that i was heading down to the next roundabout and coming back along the same road to home.

Guard said grand, laughed and said if i wasnt back at this checkpoint within the next 10 mins he'll send the squad after me, i told him if im not back send the ambulance also!

It just takes a bit of common sense really when it comes to each situation

Dempo1 · 19-01-2021 1:20pm

the kelt wrote: »

I was stopped by a guard whilst out on my bike last saturday.

On my own and was outside of my 5k.

Guard simply asked me where i was coming from and where i was going, told him where i came from and that i was heading down to the next roundabout and coming back along the same road to home.

Guard said grand, laughed and said if i wasnt back at this checkpoint within the next 10 mins he'll send the squad after me, i told him if im not back send the ambulance also!

It just takes a bit of common sense really when it comes to each situation

Love it

An Garda Síochána - COVID19

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