Seven people died in road accidents over the Christmas period, two fewer than in 2014, with the GNR reporting 19 seriously injured and 187 with minor injuries resulting from 589 accidents, 29 down on last year.
The usual array of drugs, hashish and heroin, plus five illegal knives and two firearms were found by officers, along with €781.
Speed checks were carried out and 11,643 vehicles were pulled over. Some 2,768 offenses were recorded with 2,359 people done for excessive speed.
Among the offences recorded, 231 were for driving with excess alcohol, 105 for having no current MOT, 122 for not wearing a seat, 91 for using a mobile phone when driving and 46 for having no insurance.
Drivers can expect no let-up in GNR activity over the New Year holiday period.
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As with the incendiary firestarters in the forests - where about a quarter never get mentioned in police records again. Not even to be 'cleared' of arson. Too important to be bothered by the state with a prosecution. And we get no figures whatsoever on missing persons and what proportion are ever seen again. Whether infants and elderly. Nothing.
At best hearing only that the missing pensioner has mysteriously been cashing his pension cheques in the years since !