Over €500,000 paid in Tipp speeding fines in 2018/19

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The number of speeding fines paid by drivers in the Tipperary Garda Division fell by 2.5% last year.

According to freedom of information figures 2,938 penalties were settled in 2019 amounting to €259,440.

This compares with 3,015 fines in 2018 in the Tipp Division when Gardaí collected just over €263,000.

Nationally the numbers increased by 9% last year with 120,000 speeding fines paid totalling over €10.5 million.