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Gardai anticipating cash bonanza with M50 variable speed limit

An Garda Siochana are licking their lips in anticipation with the proposed roll out of variable speed limits on the M50.

The speed limits, which will be adjusted for road incidents and weather, will be fully operational by early 2023.

All Leaving Cert students are to retroactively be awarded 625 points, the Department of Education has announced.

The move comes following the errors identified in the calculated grade system that saw up to 6,500 students incorrectly marked down.