Driver doing 157km/h among 283 caught speeding

A driver travelling at 157km/h in a 100km/h zone was among 283 drivers detected speeding so far this Bank Holiday weekend as part of the garda road policing operation.

The driver was travelling on the R238 in Quigleys Point in Co Donegal when detected by gardaí.

Gardaí also detected a driver clocking a speed of 146km/h in an 80km/h zone on the R339 in Oranmore in Co Galway.

A total of 127,176 vehicles have been checked for speeding so far this weekend.

It comes as five people have been killed on the island of Ireland in recent days as a result of road traffic collisions.

A man in his 20s was killed in a crash in Tubbercurry in Co Sligo in the early hours of the morning.

Yesterday, a man in his 50s was killed after being struck by a lorry on Arran Quay in Dublin city centre.

In Northern Ireland, three people people have been killed in two separate crashes in recent days.

Two elderly men died following a crash involving a lorry and a car in Co Antrim yesterday afternoon.

Separately, a woman has died in hospital following a road crash in Co Tyrone earlier this month.

Regarding the speeding detections, Jane Humphries, Chief Superintendent in the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, said that while they are seeing good levels of compliance with speed limits, she is "gravely concerned by the risks taken by some drivers and the two fatal road traffic collisions".

"Please slow down and drive safely today and over the rest of the long weekend as so many of us take to the roads," she said.

The garda road policing operation began on Thursday morning and will continue through the weekend.