No excuse for illegal parking, the law is the law

The clubs in question should have a reserved spot for the ref before each game.

50€ fine. I’d say he’s gutted.

The guards constantly turn a blind eye to illegal parking during GAA events. Anytime there is a match on, the footpaths near me are completely blocked by ignorant fcukers abandoning their cars. I've see people having to walk out onto the road with a pram because the footpaths have been rendered impassable and never a ticket issued that I have seen.

so he goes to court and wastes the courts time and ends up with the same penalty anyway? what a joke.

Jay

Sus

Is there any situation regarding motorists acting the bollix where it isnt someone elses fault.

The bigger issue is that he couldnt take responsibility for the fact he had done something wrong. Going to court over it as if he is somehow the victim here. Ridiculous.

Its parking in general

GAA

Any other sports club

Church

School

Shops (bookies are the worst in my view)

Cafes

Whatever

Plenty of space to park on the pitch. Nobody would have a problem with that

Ah but shur I wuz only in for de Loddo and a packet of smokes.

The ref for an U13 match would usually be a 16-18 year old in my experience, getting a few quid.

Is their 'payment' not technically expenses as such - fuel, lunch etc.

Pity AGS wouldn't show the same zeal to the triple parking which goes on daily outside Pearse Street Garda Station.

Especially considering he is literally the one person in that entire match scenario that the game can't start without. He can afford to take the few minutes.

Have you ever been stuck in a line of busses waiting to get onto College Green, held up by the double-parked Garda cars?

Steady on - I'm no Garda hater!

But I do think that an illegally parked car outside a sports venue in a rural town probably causes less of an inconvenience that dozens of private cars parked illegally in a central location of our capital city.