When did you last encounter a Garda checkpoint?

freshpopcorn · 03-09-2023 10:25pm #1

I met one tonight previous to this it would have been May 22.

Danzy · 03-09-2023 10:27pm

Yesterday, and a few more in the previous 12 months.

gmisk · 03-09-2023 10:27pm

Today as well...definitely a few years since I remember.

Passing glance at tax disc.

mode1990 · 03-09-2023 10:30pm

Today at Dublin Airport, the exit ramp from T1 departures , several cars pulled in , go choice , zero escape !

Nigzcurran · 03-09-2023 10:31pm

At the start of the first lockdown was the last time i encountered a check point and I drive for a living. On the streets of Dublin 40 hours a week and see feck all road police

bigroad · 03-09-2023 10:33pm

The Government want them out at the moment because of the recent road death's.

When the media go quiet the checkpoints will disappear.

kanuseeme · 03-09-2023 10:35pm

Friday evening, breathalyzing, around 8 pm, I think just to catch the few guys popping in a few after work, did not bother with me I believe because of wife and kids, did strain himself to look at the tax disc.

It was covid last time I was stopped.

Damien360 · 03-09-2023 10:38pm

Not enough breathalyser or drug test checkpoints. I cover the country driving 50k Kms a year on average over 25 years, albeit during work commute hours and I have been breathalysed once in all that time. The road tax checkpoints could be solved with a mobile registration scanner. They don't count as you are just waved through. It would be a pain in the ass to be stopped for drug and alcohol test but I think most reasonable people would put up with it.

BagofWeed · 03-09-2023 10:38pm

A week ago and the week before that.

freshpopcorn · 03-09-2023 10:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121065786#Comment_121065786

Did they find your weed?

Casati · 03-09-2023 10:44pm

Drug driving is as common as drink driving in 1970’s but the chances of getting a random test appears to be tiny. Like other posters never see checkpoints and never been bagged or drug testing with close on a million km driven. Not doubt to reduce road deaths we will see more speed vans in the M7/M8

BagofWeed · 03-09-2023 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121065803#Comment_121065803

No, Thankfully. I'm fairly cautious with it. Always be prepared. 😁 Was just after a long 5km walk so was fresh and alert.👉️ 👈️

JohnC. · 04-09-2023 6:59am

Couldn't put a date on it, but not long. I occasionally see them on the outbound side of the R448 checking traffic leaving Waterford in the morning, but I'm going inbound at the time and they're not checking that side of the road.

namloc1980 · 04-09-2023 7:12am

A few months ago and before that was 2020, during the first of the COVID lockdowns.

Eggs For Dinner · 04-09-2023 7:29am

Only once in approx 10 years and that was a Covid checkpoint in 2020

Atlantic Dawn · 04-09-2023 7:52am

During last COVID movement restrictions where you could only move 6.78k from your house unless you were buying bread and milk 😁. Must have been stopped 10 times or more during all that, I laugh at it now how outright stupid it was.

User1998 · 04-09-2023 8:07am

Went through one in Dublin city centre a few weeks ago. Mistakenly had my old and expired insurance disc in the window. He glanced at all three discs and let me through without even noticing it.

Before that it was during Covid checking 5km distance etc

Buddy Bubs · 04-09-2023 8:09am

During covid every day. Same spot, same guard, on the way to work

AndyBoBandy · 04-09-2023 8:17am

A Covid stop maybe in 2020 when we were still limited to 5km or something… prior to that maybe 4-5 years earlier..

Current car has 83,000km on it and only ever seen 1 checkpoint (covid one above)

BorneTobyWilde · 04-09-2023 1:24pm

Several weeks ago, late one Saturday night, when little sister rings me at 2am for a lift home, met checkpoint, breathalyzing, I said I don't drink, rookie female cop, looked too short to be a cop, uniform looked baggy, again I said I don't drink, she said you have nothing to worry about then. Me , okay then, she then said '' place this into your mouth and keep blowing until I tell you to stop'' which I did, while thinking to myself, if I said those words to her I'd be arrested.

Of course it came back 0, like I said , I don't drink.

keano25 · 04-09-2023 1:28pm

That's called a mandatory alcohol testing checkpoint.

Burt Renaults · 04-09-2023 1:32pm

Around six months ago, late at night, at the top of a motorway off-ramp. They glanced at the tax and NCT discs. NCT was a few months out of date, so he asked me for proof of a booking, and then just waved me on before bothering to look at it. Still hasn’t been tested. Waiting til the full 12 months have elapsed now so I can get a free year.

Seth Brundle · 04-09-2023 1:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121067599#Comment_121067599

You make it sound like you're surprised that she didn't believe you, a random stranger, first time about not drinking. I assume people have also told her that I don't take drugs, I don't rob stuff, I don't murder people and for some reason she probably doesn't believe them first time either!

TigerTim · 04-09-2023 1:36pm

Got asked for my licence last June in Sligo. Told the Garda he "broke my duck". I've been driving since 1978 & this was the first time I was asked for my licence. We both laughed. He then said he was going to breathalyse me which was also a first. We had a good laugh over it.

T.

Lewis_Benson · 04-09-2023 1:42pm

Maybe 10 years ago.

csirl · 04-09-2023 1:58pm

About 18mths ago - on the quays in Dublin, late afternoon on a Monday on a stretch near Heuston heading out of the city. Was a random breath test one requirung multiple cars to stop to stop to take the test - so it caused absolute mayhem with the rush hour traffic. Wouldnt imagine that many office/retail workers commuting home on a Monday would be tanked up on pints!

GSBellew · 04-09-2023 2:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121067599#Comment_121067599

Well if they didn't breathalyze you based on your word it'd be fairly pointless stopping anyone, are they supposed to say grand so carry on there?

emeldc · 04-09-2023 2:29pm

I drove from kilkenny to westport and back over the weekend covering approx 600Kms. Side roads, main roads, back roads, motorways, dirt tracks and the one and only Garda car I saw was parked outside a Garda station.