Gardaí found 26 potential breaches of COVID-19 restrictions at pubs last weekend.
From 7pm last Friday until midnight on Sunday, Gardaí conducted 6,830 checks on licensed premises throughout the country as part of Operation Navigation.
Officers found 2,785 individual licensed premises currently open for business.
The vast majority were found to be in compliance with regulations and licensing laws.
But 26 individual licensed premises were found to have potential breaches of the health regulations or licensing laws, even after providing the premises with the opportunity to rectify the situation.
Files will now be prepared for the DPP in each of these cases.
In many cases Gardaí found customers were drinking without evidence of food being consumed or having been sold.
He went on to say; "We are sending a clear message to such premises that we will be opposing their liquor license renewal applications in September unless they come into compliance."
