Been driving 16 years now and have been bagged once. I haven’t seen a checkpoint of any kind since the guards did the pointless ones during Covid
There’s a few local WhatsApp groups set up to alert for Garda checkpoints and speed cameras. You’ve all sorts of toerags in them but they serve a useful purpose if you’re a regular driver from Wexford to Dublin.
Anyway, based on the messages being shared in that group there’s regular checkpoints all around North Wexford but maybe it’s easier for people to dodge them now
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Ok. Ive had a quick look at the rsa website and would say this is bollox. Definitely more under 50. Stats are skewed in some ways because they are deaths, not who wast to blame. For example they include old people pedestrians who didnt move fast enough to avoid being hit by a car…
Anyway, the takeaway from this is that @TreatyStones is not to be trusted.
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ban jeeps in urban areas
@Mac checking his phone for speed camera updates on the WhatsApp group and he bombing home after work
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You’ll get your cheap likes but it’d hard enough for me to bomb home down from the attic
Driving 30 years and never bagged. Probably jinx myself now.
Bagged the once. Bank holiday Friday about 6 o clock on Amiens St. Must be nearly 10 years ago now.
I’ve been bagged six times
They know by the head on you… not once ever.
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It’s not really a jinx so long as you remain sober behind the wheel.
I do be very paranoid the morning after a wedding
I’m out of the marriage merrygoround thank God. It’s more funerals and 50th now 
Wow. Very pragmatic but an unbelievable lack of empathy from the protestants to combine these events.
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Efficiency with empathy - the Protestant way 
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Never bagged in Ireland. Been bagged here three or four times. They like random saturday/sunday morning checkpoints here.
Lorries, tractors and slow cars half on the hard shoulder/half on the road is an awkward one too on main roads. Viewed as a sound gesture but entices motorists to overtake and nearly applies pressure that if you don’t overtake then you’re slowing everyone else down behind.
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Same for me, never breathalysed here but have been in France & Spain.
Did anyone ever see the WhatsApp doing the rounds of the baldy guard accusing some roaster of “being incapable of driving the vehicle due to intoxication” to which yer man pipes up “And I believe youre incapable of growing hair”
Priceless.The hoor was flutered.