Twenty-nine people have been fined €100 each for breaching Covid-19 restrictions since the introduction of new enforcement measures on Monday.
Gardaí say the fixed payment notices were issued to people who had travelled more than five kilometres from their homes without a reasonable excuse.
The current Level 5 health regulations only allow for people to exercise within 5km of their home. Three people from Co Meath were fined after they were stopped in Ringsend in Dublin where they said they had travelled 80 kilometres for a burger.
A woman in Middleton who had been directed to return home was also fined after gardaí found her a short time later on a beach, as were a couple in Cork city who told gardaí they were visiting an elderly