# clamping - Friday 24 January, 2020
# Clampers
# Clampers
The number of vehicles clamped in Dublin city in 2019 was up 8% to 46,516.
# clamping - Monday 14 October, 2019
# Clamp Down
# Clamp Down
The NTA launched the public consultation on its Code of Practice today.
# clamping - Sunday 1 September, 2019
# Clamping
# Clamping
Last year, the council recorded revenue of €27.9 million from parking fees.
# clamping - Sunday 21 July, 2019
# Clampers
# Clampers
Only a small percentage of those who are clamped seek to reverse the €80 fee.
# clamping - Wednesday 17 July, 2019
# Paid And Displayed
# Paid And Displayed
In the year under review in 2017, 55,977 vehicles were clamped in the city council area which works out at just over 150 every day.
# clamping - Sunday 13 January, 2019
# Clamping
# Clamping
The clamping appeal officers must be “of good character” and be familiar with “natural justice”.
# clamping - Monday 10 December, 2018
# Appeals
# Appeals
Over half of the clamping appeals made in the first nine months of the year were successful.
# clamping - Monday 1 October, 2018
# Penalty Points
# Penalty Points
Gardaí issued fixed charge penalty notices to the owners of vehicles parked on the same footpath.
# clamping - Sunday 14 January, 2018
# Parking Complaints
# Parking Complaints
Last year legislation came into effect to regulate clamping in Ireland, allowing for an appeals process from people who have felt hard-done by from clamping companies.
# clamping - Sunday 7 January, 2018
# Clamping Complaints
# Clamping Complaints
Questions around the ten minute grace period not being fairly given made up a number of the complaints about clamping last year.
# clamping - Wednesday 13 December, 2017
# Clamping Down
# Clamping Down
Another driver said that the wrong car was de-clamped after they paid the de-clamp fee.
# clamping - Wednesday 11 October, 2017
# Clamped
# Clamped
There were 14 reports of aggressive behaviour towards clamping staff in the first eight months of this year.
# clamping - Thursday 10 August, 2017
# Dublin City Council
# Dublin City Council
A passerby stopped with the woman and had to pay the fine.
# clamping - Sunday 6 August, 2017
# Revealed
# Revealed
These are just some of the recurring complaints that Dublin City Council receive about clamping.
# clamping - Saturday 1 July, 2017
# Not Happy
# Not Happy
DCC received 63 complaint about clamping from May 2016 to May of this year.
# clamping - Saturday 27 May, 2017
# Clampers
# Clampers
The regulations will be published next week, with the NTA taking over in October.
# clamping - Wednesday 17 May, 2017
# Yellow Discs Of Doom
# Yellow Discs Of Doom
Clamping fees due to Dublin City Council increased by €100,000 in 2016 according to a report in today’s Irish Times.
# clamping - Saturday 26 November, 2016
# Newbridge
# Newbridge
The cars had valid parking tickets but were not parked in marked spaces at Newbridge train station.
# clamping - Thursday 24 November, 2016
# Park And Ride
# Park And Ride
The station has recently become busier because of a new route.
# clamping - Friday 10 June, 2016
# The One
From The Daily Edge
# clamping - Wednesday 27 April, 2016
# Just The Ticket
From The Daily Edge
# Just The Ticket
The hero we all need.
# clamping - Friday 15 May, 2015
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Transport Minister has “utter sympathy” for people who are clamped – but says hospitals should manage their own parking operations.
# clamping - Friday 20 March, 2015
# Clamping Rage
# Clamping Rage
Were you caught in any of these locations?
# clamping - Thursday 19 February, 2015
# Triangle Of Doom
# Triangle Of Doom
Paschal Donohoe said it’s a matter for individual hospitals.
# clamping - Thursday 22 January, 2015
# Yellow Doom
# Yellow Doom
The TD suggested we consider banning the practice.
# clamping - Thursday 8 January, 2015
# clamping - Monday 20 October, 2014
# Clamp Happy
# Clamp Happy
Three clamping staff were also attacked during that time in the city.
# clamping - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
# ARGHHHHHH
# ARGHHHHHH
A new Bill seeks to regulate release fees and introduce a complaints process.
# clamping - Monday 9 June, 2014
# New Rules
# New Rules
Their days as rogue clampers, that is. New laws are being brought in to… well, clamp-down on the practice.
# clamping - Monday 17 March, 2014
# €80
# €80
The Transport Minister added that it has been ‘highly effective’ in changing driver behaviour.
# clamping - Monday 10 March, 2014
# Strike
# Strike
Dublin Street Parking Services voted in a secret ballot this afternoon on possible strike action.
# clamping - Saturday 8 March, 2014
# On Stike?
# On Stike?
Dublin City Council has reportedly set a target of 60,000 vehicles clamped a year.
# clamping - Monday 20 January, 2014
# Your Say
# Your Say
Local authorities collected €115 million in parking fees last year.
# clamping - Thursday 9 January, 2014
# Viking Clamp Tour
From The Daily Edge
# clamping - Wednesday 25 December, 2013
# Snap Happy
# Snap Happy
God knows we all needed a little cheering up occasionally in the past 12 months. Fortunately, there were sometimes camels on the beach…
# clamping - Saturday 21 December, 2013
# Parking
# Parking
The new provisions will establish an independent appeals process.
# clamping - Tuesday 17 December, 2013
# Clamping Down
# Clamping Down
The threat at the Newbridge store is part of a wider dispute where parking facilities have been withdrawn at 116 Irish stores.
# clamping - Tuesday 19 November, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
There’s something wrong in the system when we are topping-up hospital executives’ pay while clamping patients in hospital car parks for money, writes Catherine Murphy TD.
# clamping - Monday 11 November, 2013
# Cursing Charge
From The Daily Edge
# Cursing Charge
That potty mouth will cost you.
# clamping - Friday 2 August, 2013
# Clamped
# Clamped
A picture from a TheJournal.ie reader shows the car parked in a pay-and-display section of the IFSC.
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