Many now believe that the current lockdown restrictions are pointless due to the fact that they don’t apply to Northern Irish residents who can legally go wherever they like across the island of Ireland once they make it past the border into the Republic.
Gardai say that they’ll be holding widespread checkpoints across the country – but those checkpoints will be practically useless to Northern Irish drivers.
If you plan on going out for a spin or see a friend over the upcoming bank holiday weekend, be prepared that you could face a €2,500 fine or up to 6 months in jail – no, seriously. That’s what the flawed legislation that Simon Harris signed into law means.
Know anyone from the North who wants to come down for a spin and go literally anywhere they want in the Republic without facing any sort of repercussions, well now’s the time to tell them because of flawed legislation signed in by Minister for Health Simon Harris.
‘Operation Fanacht’ will began on Tuesday morning in an effort to prevent people travelling across the country in advance of the bank holiday.
The checkpoint operation will run from 7am Tuesday 28th of April until the end of the May bank holiday weekend on Monday night, 4 May.
Meanwhile Northern Irish residents can freely travel wherever they like once they make it past the border. Northern Ireland residents living along the border can freely travel into the South and drive across the entire country with gardai unable to do anything about it because the new legislation that Simon Harris signed into only applies to the Republic and is useless outside of the State.
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