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Last August, at 6:45pm one evening, I parked briefly outside a local shop to pick up something for dinner on the way home from work.
All the other shops on the strip were closed and this shop closes at 7pm so they were starting to get ready to close up. The sign said it was a loading bay and no parking was permitted until after 7pm, but clearly all deliveries were well finished by this time so I chanced it.
I came out after 5 min in the shop to find a parking ticket on the car. I was furious, as were the shop keepers. Surely the whole idea of the parking restrictions is to facilitate local commerce and ticketing their customers as they spend money in these shops with not a delivery van in sight is doing the exact opposite? This ticket was issued purely to generate income for the council. No wonder local shops all over the country are closing down, as out of town superstores with free parking selling less and less Irish products take over.
Anyway, feeling that the ticket was unfair, I ignored the reminders and have just received a summons to appear in court in September.
If I go along and argue my case, do you think I am likely to have a sympathetic hearing? Am I being reasonable or is it a case of 'the law's the law'?
Thanks in advance
R
All the other shops on the strip were closed and this shop closes at 7pm so they were starting to get ready to close up. The sign said it was a loading bay and no parking was permitted until after 7pm, but clearly all deliveries were well finished by this time so I chanced it.
I came out after 5 min in the shop to find a parking ticket on the car. I was furious, as were the shop keepers. Surely the whole idea of the parking restrictions is to facilitate local commerce and ticketing their customers as they spend money in these shops with not a delivery van in sight is doing the exact opposite? This ticket was issued purely to generate income for the council. No wonder local shops all over the country are closing down, as out of town superstores with free parking selling less and less Irish products take over.
Anyway, feeling that the ticket was unfair, I ignored the reminders and have just received a summons to appear in court in September.
If I go along and argue my case, do you think I am likely to have a sympathetic hearing? Am I being reasonable or is it a case of 'the law's the law'?
Thanks in advance
R