It’s been claimed there’s been a sharp decline in speeding enforcement, with figures showing a 33% drop in the number of fines issued on Donegal’s roads over the past 10 years. That compares a national drop of 27%.
Aontu representative Mary T Sweeney says figures released to her party leader Peader Toibin in the Dail show that in 2014, 4,744 fixed penalty notices were issued in Donegal, while last year, the figure was 3,170.
Ms Sweeney says this correlates with a drop in the number of gardai assigned to Roads Policing teams across country.
She says rural counties like Donegal need more gardai as a matter of urgency to address that……..
