# Parking
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This year
2024
Running out of Road
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
17.0k
76
Radical shift
Eamon Ryan says free public sector parking spaces should start to go in 2024
14 Jan
52.2k
123
Last year
2023
Dublin Airport
Dublin Airport warns passengers that all its car parks will likely be full this weekend
24 May 2023
18.9k
28
Congestion Charge
Eamon Ryan: Congestion charges won't be 'first response' to Ireland's dependence on cars
Updated
6 Mar 2023
24.2k
95
All time
climate action plan
Congestions charges can't be ruled out as Taoiseach says Govt won't curtail car ownership
Updated
21 Dec 2022
32.6k
123
parking charges
'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
The Daily Poll
Poll: Do climate protesters have the right to deface public property or art?
16 Oct 2022
42.2k
66
Dublin Airport
'Just plain unfair': Criticism over summer surge in cost of Dublin Airport parking
11 Jun 2022
61.2k
70
pay and display
Dublin parking prices will increase by up to 30 cent per hour from next week
26 Jan 2022
25.0k
54
Paid Parking
Dublin City Council introduces low-rate parking for healthcare staff as free street parking ended
18 Aug 2020
21.8k
37
no charge
Dublin City Council ending free parking for healthcare workers near hospitals
11 Aug 2020
28.8k
79
healthcare workers
Healthcare workers still paying for hospital parking despite HSE order to waive all fees
25 Mar 2020
32.2k
55
parking charges
HSE instructs hospital and healthcare facilities to immediately suspend parking charges for staff
19 Mar 2020
29.1k
41
Dublin City Council
Parking costs in Dublin city are increasing to €3.20 per hour from next Monday
9 Jul 2019
28.0k
70
On Yer Bike
'Residents are really pissed off': Dublin City Council plans expansion of city parking zones into suburbs
30 Jan 2019
30.1k
64
off the coach
Fewer visitors toured Ireland by bus last year - and not everyone's blaming it on Brexit
3 Nov 2018
13.2k
22
Penalty Points
Two 'clamp fairies' arrested for removing clamps from cars in Dublin
1 Oct 2018
80.6k
operation enable
Motorist fined after parking in disabled bay using out-of-date permit belonging to relative
4 Aug 2018
29.3k
Enforcement
'I can't say Dublin's safe for cyclists': Ministers want crackdown on drivers parking in cycle lanes
25 Jun 2018
13.4k
115
parking complaints
Over 228 people appeal car clamping decisions in the first two months of new law
14 Jan 2018
27.6k
28
operation enable
Number of people summoned before courts after parking in disabled space without permit
5 Jan 2018
28.5k
77
christmas rush
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
Clamped
Dublin clampers spat at, pushed and struck with steel bars by angry motorists
11 Oct 2017
24.0k
95
no parking
'Follow him home and burn him out': Records reveal abuse and assaults suffered by traffic wardens
15 Sep 2017
29.2k
79
counting the cost
'The last thing a cancer patient needs is to be charged this much for parking'
31 Aug 2017
21.2k
47
operation enable
Driver to be prosecuted for parking across two disabled bays in Cork
28 Aug 2017
59.2k
106
georgian parkway
'Parking protected' cycle lanes move one step closer to reality in Dublin city
29 Jun 2017
45.1k
97
central park
Central Bank to pay €30k for extra parking spaces beside new 'fit-for-purpose' HQ
24 Jun 2017
16.4k
31
Dublin Fire Brigade
Dublin ambulance delayed to 999 call because of bad parking
10 Apr 2017
45.5k
40