Your own pictures of bad parking **WITH CHAT**

All three in the first picture should have been towed..

This is really dangerous parking, forcing people to step out onto the bike lane - close to a number of schools. Funny thing is - even the van across the road is way too close to the corner. Botanic Road, Dublin.

In Sweden they have a rule that you cant park within 10 meters of a corner.

Parking laws in Ireland explained

Drivers must not stop or park:

• In a disabled parking space unless you have the appropriate blue badge
• Where there are white or yellow zig-zag lines near a pedestrian crossing
• Wholly or partly on a zebra or pelican crossing or at pedestrian lights
• Fifteen metres before or five metres after a pedestrian crossing or traffic lights
• Near a school entrance where there are yellow zig-zag lines along the edge of the roadway enclosing the words 'SCHOOL KEEP CLEAR'
• Near an entrance or exit from a fire, ambulance or Garda station
• Within an area marked as a bus stop or taxi rank
• Where there is a single or double continuous white line along the centre of the road
• Wholly or partly on a footpath, a grass margin, a cycle lane or track or a median strip
• Within five metres of a road junction unless parking spaces are clearly marked
• On a part of a road reserved for casual trading during trading hours
• In a contra-flow bus lane at any time or in a with-flow bus lane during the hours the bus lane is in force
• In a loading bay
• In an entrance or exit for vehicles to or from a premises, unless authorised by the occupier of the premises
• In a tram lane
• On the approach to a level crossing
• On a dropped kerb that has been lowered for wheelchair users

The Rules of the Road also say that motorists must never park at a corner, bend, brow of a hill or on a hump-backed bridge. Nor must they park where there is a sharp dip in the road or in any place where there is a school warden.

While a few of those are designed solely not to inconvenience other road users, many concern both visibility and forcing other road users into potentially dangerous situations.

Parking near pedestrian crossings or too close to schools can dangerously affect visibility for those on foot. Parking too close to a junction can severely curtail visibility for other motorists, potentially leading to a serious crash. The rules about not parking on a footpath or cycle lane exist to stop vulnerable road users from being forced into traffic.

From: https://www.completecar.ie/features/post/11356/Parking-laws-in-Ireland-explained

Yes.

and maybe 10 minutes later:-

Dunnes Stores, Roscrea, busy spot but plenty of empty spaces and no excuse for this!

Re: Ballinteer

Dangerous for road users too, looks like it is on a bend with a continuous white line. Needs to be towed not clamped.

Or maybe pulling up the handbrake

Very forgetful, if so - I've seen it a few times before at the same location.

It's over the edge, both front and back, just pushing onto public space, while their own driveway lies empty. Truly selfish and ignorant.

Nothing like a good old fashioned parking dispute to find out what your neighbours are really like!

"I own the side of the road outside my house / the non-numbered shared space nearest my apartment and how dare anyone make me park ten metres away!"

With so many adults unable to move out of home these days, there's going to be households with 4 or 5 cars in estates built to handle 1 and the odd 2.

I prefer the Singapore approach myself 😁