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# Parking

This year
2024
Parking driving you crazy? It might be because cars are expanding by half a centimetre a year
Campaigners say legislation is urgently needed to halt the trend for ever wider cars.
The average width of Irish new cars exceeds the EU average.
Several SUVs on the market are now over 2 metres wide.
Valerie Flynn
30 Jan
16.9k
76
Eamon Ryan says free public sector parking spaces should start to go in 2024
14 Jan
52.2k
123
Last year
2023
Dublin Airport parking spaces expected to fill up this weekend
27 May 2023
16.0k
28
Dublin Airport warns passengers that all its car parks will likely be full this weekend
24 May 2023
18.9k
28
Eamon Ryan: Congestion charges won't be 'first response' to Ireland's dependence on cars
Updated 6 Mar 2023
24.2k
95
All time
Congestions charges can't be ruled out as Taoiseach says Govt won't curtail car ownership
Updated 21 Dec 2022
32.6k
123
'It's like a pay cut': Liffey Valley staff say new parking charges could cost some workers €12.50 a day
19 Oct 2022
30.9k
49
Poll: Do climate protesters have the right to deface public property or art?
16 Oct 2022
42.2k
66
'Just plain unfair': Criticism over summer surge in cost of Dublin Airport parking
11 Jun 2022
61.2k
70
Dublin parking prices will increase by up to 30 cent per hour from next week
26 Jan 2022
25.0k
54
Dublin City Council introduces low-rate parking for healthcare staff as free street parking ended
18 Aug 2020
21.8k
37
Dublin City Council ending free parking for healthcare workers near hospitals
11 Aug 2020
28.8k
79
Healthcare workers still paying for hospital parking despite HSE order to waive all fees
25 Mar 2020
32.2k
55
HSE instructs hospital and healthcare facilities to immediately suspend parking charges for staff
19 Mar 2020
29.1k
41
Parking costs in Dublin city are increasing to €3.20 per hour from next Monday
9 Jul 2019
28.0k
70
OPW defends car-park proposals for Phoenix Park
31 May 2019
38.9k
61
'Residents are really pissed off': Dublin City Council plans expansion of city parking zones into suburbs
30 Jan 2019
30.1k
64
Fewer visitors toured Ireland by bus last year - and not everyone's blaming it on Brexit
3 Nov 2018
13.2k
22
Cork local investigated over hacking of council's parking app
9 Oct 2018
21.1k
11
Two 'clamp fairies' arrested for removing clamps from cars in Dublin
1 Oct 2018
80.6k
Motorist fined after parking in disabled bay using out-of-date permit belonging to relative
4 Aug 2018
29.3k
'I can't say Dublin's safe for cyclists': Ministers want crackdown on drivers parking in cycle lanes
25 Jun 2018
13.4k
115
HSE ordered to carry out review of car parking charges at hospitals
16 Mar 2018
16.5k
33
Over 228 people appeal car clamping decisions in the first two months of new law
14 Jan 2018
27.6k
28
Number of people summoned before courts after parking in disabled space without permit
5 Jan 2018
28.5k
77
Driver facing €3,000 fine for using mother-in-law's disabled parking permit to go late-night shopping
10 Dec 2017
48.8k
113
Dublin clampers spat at, pushed and struck with steel bars by angry motorists
11 Oct 2017
24.0k
100
New 'age friendly' parking spots are popping up around Cork
4 Oct 2017
27.4k
52
From parking spaces to pop-up parks: 35 new parks appeared in Dublin yesterday
16 Sep 2017
20.2k
16
'Follow him home and burn him out': Records reveal abuse and assaults suffered by traffic wardens
15 Sep 2017
29.2k
79
'An appalling case': Bus driver attacked taxi driver in fight over parking
7 Sep 2017
37.7k
'The last thing a cancer patient needs is to be charged this much for parking'
31 Aug 2017
21.2k
47
Driver to be prosecuted for parking across two disabled bays in Cork
28 Aug 2017
59.2k
106
'Goodwill' refunds issued after complaints over 'unfair' clamping
6 Aug 2017
39.4k
81
'Parking protected' cycle lanes move one step closer to reality in Dublin city
29 Jun 2017
45.1k
97
Central Bank to pay €30k for extra parking spaces beside new 'fit-for-purpose' HQ
24 Jun 2017
16.4k
31
Dublin ambulance delayed to 999 call because of bad parking
10 Apr 2017
45.5k
40
Poll: Should graveyards charge for parking?
5 Apr 2017
19.6k
61
Poll: Is it okay to park up on the footpath?
5 Apr 2017
35.6k
70
Gardaí launch 'Operation Enable' to catch drivers using fake disabled parking permits
20 Feb 2017
24.7k
90
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