LAST UPDATE | 20 Apr

GARDAÍ CAUGHT 755 motorists travelling above the speed limit throughout a 24-hour-long operation aimed at slowing people down.

Within that number, Gardaí said GoSafe vans checked the speeds of 163,146 vehicles, and detected 225 going over the limit.

Examples of high speeds include:

•  194km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N25 Loughaderry, Castlemartyr, Cork
  • 132km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N13 Teevickmoy, Stranorlar, Donegal
  • 127km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N13 Listellian, Letterkenny, Donegal
  • 127km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N2 Annamarran, Carrickmacross, Monaghan
  • 124km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N25 Kilmacthomas, Waterford
  • 121km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N21 Rineroe, Adare, Limerick
  • 121km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N11 Mt Kennedy Demesne, Newtownmountkennedy, Wicklow
• 112km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Main Street, Charleville, Cork
• 87km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Swords Road, Dublin 9
• 78km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the N84 Castlequarter, Cloonboo, Galway

National Slow Down Day was running from 7am to 7pm yesterday.

Gardaí said the aim of the operation is to “promote safer driving behaviour among motorists and to encourage all of society to work with us to help prevent road traffic collisions, and to ultimately keep communities safe”.

The force said the operation is aimed at high visibility speed enforcement activity across Ireland’s road network.

Gardaí said that 63 people have been killed on roads in Ireland since the beginning of the year in Ireland, 14 more than at the same time last year.

With reporting by Eoghan Dalton