Bikes Parked on Wide Pavements (in Dublin) Now Being Ticketed

There have been quite a few threads on here over the years about the ins and outs of bike parking in Dublin, both on- and off-street, and regarding on-street parking, the concensus seems to be that you could park at the two official places; Burgh Quay and North Princes St., and that apart from that everything is a "grey area". The trouble is that due to the high incidence of motorbike theft, most of us want to park our bikes where we can see them. Parking in an on-street car parking space is illegal. Parking on a pavement in such a way as to cause an obstruction is illegal, but a blind eye is turned to bikes parked on wide pavements where they do not cause an obstruction, i.e. a person in a wheelchair could get past.

A friend of mine has been parking his bike in sight of where he works, on the big triangle of pavement at the top of of South William St., where it meets Stephen St/ Mercer St. There are normally a few bikes parked there, not causing any problems for pedestrians, and the other day they all received tickets. I'm wondering if anybody else has had their bike ticketed in this way, or if anybody knows of any new official policy regarding bike parking?