New figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal that men incurred almost twice as many penalty point endorsement notices as women last year.
The figures are contained in the CSO's Transport Omnibus release for 2019, which presents a comprehensive picture of transport activity in Ireland.
A total of 191,104 penalty point endorsement notices were issued last year, with over 64% of these for speeding.
The CSO also noted that 864 drivers had 12 penalty points on their licences on December 31, of which 122 drivers received all 12 penalty points last year.
Today's figures also show that licensed vehicles here travelled a total of 47.1 billion kilometres last year. On average, each private car travelled a total of 16,352km.
They also reveal that half of the almost 1.4 million cars that underwent the National Car Test (NCT) last year failed the initial test, but 97% passed after one or more tests.
The CSO also said that a total of 227.7 million journeys were taken on scheduled bus services, 48.3 million journeys were taken on the Luas and 50.1 million journeys were by rail during 2019.
It also noted that the largest number of journeys by users of the bicycle sharing scheme in Dublin last year took place in the month of July when 376,758 journeys were made.
The Transport Omnibus also reveals that a total of 3,047,912 Irish driving licences were held at the end of 2019, of which 7.6% were learner permit licences.
A total of 186,379 driving tests were conducted in 2019 with an average pass rate of 53.9%, the CSO also said.
Meanwhile, a total of 38.1 million passengers passed through Irish airports last year.
The Dublin-Heathrow route carried the most air passengers (1,856,475) and accounted for almost one twentieth (4.9%) of all passenger movements in the year, the CSO stated.
