Gardaí are introducing more checkpoints from today, as part of the Level 5 restrictions.
Training in the Garda College in Templemore has stopped so recruits can help with frontline duties
The extension of Operation Fanacht will see Gardai continue their policy of policing by consent with enforcement only being used as a last resort.
Gardai say that at any one time over the next six weeks they'll have over two and a half thousand officers on duty.
