Photograph: Chris MaddaloniMotorists who break the red lights at the Merrion Gates level crossing in south Dublin will be caught on camera and issued with fines and penalty points from noon on Friday. Motorists drove into level crossing gates 23 times last year, Iarnród Éireann said. The Merrion Gates initiative marks the first use in more than a decade of automatic cameras to catch motorists breaking red lights. Speaking at the Merrion Gates on Wednesday, Assistant Garda Commissioner for roads policing, Catharina Gunne, said the use of red-light cameras was an important deterrent. “Now that this has been proved [at the Merrion Gates] it should be easier to get the rest of them in,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 29, 2026 06:50 UTC