Are we missing context? All I see is two people agreeing with each other, though I agree with neither
god forbid, it seems as though they’ve spent all their money on nice cars and can’t afford to pay for a few hours parking!
This is directly outside school and care facilities for blind children and adults. I’d have clamped all 4 wheels.
What’s the world coming to when You can’t park your Porsche Cayenne on a busy foot path in the middle of a city.
Great to see the gardai and DCC put the boot down.
The GAA announced during the week that this would be happening and people just ignored it.
There’s plenty of paid parking around and parking away from the ground on public transport routes
That’s impressive levels of entitlement right there.
In a situation like this, they should just tow and impound the cars, at least it would then leave the footpath free for pedestrians and stop wheelchair users and people with buggies having to go out onto the road.
Then the GAA should learn from it and make provisions for adequate public transport and parking facilities for the events they hold.
Local gaa matches in my area are a free for all. Gardai present directing traffic yet nobody cares about them blocking roads, footpaths and entrances. About time gaa supporters followed the rules too.
Her bio describes her as a “human rights lawyer”
… unless they’re wheelchair users, right?
There are lot’s of genuine complaints about public transport in this country. But so many people are completely unwilling to do anything but drive right up to their destination, even if it’s an 80,000 seater stadium in an urban residential area…..
Jaysus lads ye can’t be doin’ dat! Ye can’t be doin’ dat!
It’s a shitshow down in Páirc Uí Chaoimh during any event in the stadium aswell. They built the feckin place but didn’t put any thought into how many people would be attending events there and didn’t put any parking facilities/ public transport links to it.
There aren’t even enough toilets in the stadium, ridiculous.
Safe to say that it’s getting exactly the response you’d expect.
Parking on a footpath is illegal….*checks notes* …..yep
How does she know they’re ‘breaking the bank’ or that maybe it’s people without families?
Having lived close to Croke Park, having people park in our drive, across it and so forth…
No sympathy.
As a pedestrian, I’d love to see this happen to anyone who parks on the footpath, instead of the usual zero-enforcement we normally get.
I used to live on Clonliffe Road and had to put up with the hassle of big match days and concerts. If any of these gobshite fans had to endure the hassle caused by all the illegal parking, rubbish, noise, piss, they’d think twice about where they park. But they don’t because they just expect the world to fit around what they want right now.
The sense of entitlement of people is not surprising. Some people are just so resistant to doing any research about parking or transport and cannot accept that you don’t always get to park right next to the thing you are going to.
Dopes blocking way for blind people and those with disabilities- selfish shits
Ridiculous. Why should someone attending a GAA match be given special treatment for parking illegally? If someone popped into the shops and parked there is that somehow more illegal? Pay for parking
Gaa fans don’t give a shit. They’d park on a graveyard.
See a lot of comments defending people here or saying the council could have had someone to stop them etc… Have been to countless matches and concerts in Croke Park and a half dozen other stadiums in Ireland, have never once parked on a footpath. It’s sheer ignorance and laziness no matter what way you look at it.
So much of Irish hypocrisy contained in one tweet. Beautiful.
The combo of going to a big sporting event with playing the poor mouth, and wondering why our legal system is too lenient while also wanting to not be punished by laws when it suits people.
Saw clamper giving out tickets today at Bettystown beach. There is like 20 NO Parking signs and ppl still parked in front of them. 75€ each. Expensive day at the beach for them but don’t feel sorry for them even one bit.
Now this is some intense schadenfreude
Going to s semi final is not an “essential ” part of most household budgets
Maybe they shouldn’t have parked on the footpath?
Can I just do what I want and use the “COST OF LIVING CRISIS!” as an excuse? Twitter is such a plague and everyone who uses it is fucking boring.
“Let me get this straight. You think those illegally parked cars getting clamped is funny?”
“I do. And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.”
Clamp the bastards I say.
Sorry but can’t any sympathy for people parking on footpaths, no matter how wide it is
Fuck you for parking on a footpath, hope the fine sucks.
She has since deleted it. Clearly faced a tonne of backlash, and rightfully so.
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Are we missing context? All I see is two people agreeing with each other, though I agree with neither
god forbid, it seems as though they’ve spent all their money on nice cars and can’t afford to pay for a few hours parking!
This is directly outside school and care facilities for blind children and adults. I’d have clamped all 4 wheels.
What’s the world coming to when You can’t park your Porsche Cayenne on a busy foot path in the middle of a city.
Great to see the gardai and DCC put the boot down.
The GAA announced during the week that this would be happening and people just ignored it.
There’s plenty of paid parking around and parking away from the ground on public transport routes
That’s impressive levels of entitlement right there.
In a situation like this, they should just tow and impound the cars, at least it would then leave the footpath free for pedestrians and stop wheelchair users and people with buggies having to go out onto the road.
Then the GAA should learn from it and make provisions for adequate public transport and parking facilities for the events they hold.
Local gaa matches in my area are a free for all. Gardai present directing traffic yet nobody cares about them blocking roads, footpaths and entrances. About time gaa supporters followed the rules too.
Her bio describes her as a “human rights lawyer”
… unless they’re wheelchair users, right?
There are lot’s of genuine complaints about public transport in this country. But so many people are completely unwilling to do anything but drive right up to their destination, even if it’s an 80,000 seater stadium in an urban residential area…..
Jaysus lads ye can’t be doin’ dat! Ye can’t be doin’ dat!
It’s a shitshow down in Páirc Uí Chaoimh during any event in the stadium aswell. They built the feckin place but didn’t put any thought into how many people would be attending events there and didn’t put any parking facilities/ public transport links to it.
There aren’t even enough toilets in the stadium, ridiculous.
Here’s the tweet: [https://twitter.com/ShaunaCarberry3/status/1545834232345464833](https://twitter.com/ShaunaCarberry3/status/1545834232345464833)
Safe to say that it’s getting exactly the response you’d expect.
Parking on a footpath is illegal….*checks notes* …..yep
How does she know they’re ‘breaking the bank’ or that maybe it’s people without families?
Having lived close to Croke Park, having people park in our drive, across it and so forth…
No sympathy.
As a pedestrian, I’d love to see this happen to anyone who parks on the footpath, instead of the usual zero-enforcement we normally get.
I used to live on Clonliffe Road and had to put up with the hassle of big match days and concerts. If any of these gobshite fans had to endure the hassle caused by all the illegal parking, rubbish, noise, piss, they’d think twice about where they park. But they don’t because they just expect the world to fit around what they want right now.
The sense of entitlement of people is not surprising. Some people are just so resistant to doing any research about parking or transport and cannot accept that you don’t always get to park right next to the thing you are going to.
Dopes blocking way for blind people and those with disabilities- selfish shits
Ridiculous. Why should someone attending a GAA match be given special treatment for parking illegally? If someone popped into the shops and parked there is that somehow more illegal? Pay for parking
Gaa fans don’t give a shit. They’d park on a graveyard.
See a lot of comments defending people here or saying the council could have had someone to stop them etc… Have been to countless matches and concerts in Croke Park and a half dozen other stadiums in Ireland, have never once parked on a footpath. It’s sheer ignorance and laziness no matter what way you look at it.
So much of Irish hypocrisy contained in one tweet. Beautiful.
The combo of going to a big sporting event with playing the poor mouth, and wondering why our legal system is too lenient while also wanting to not be punished by laws when it suits people.
Saw clamper giving out tickets today at Bettystown beach. There is like 20 NO Parking signs and ppl still parked in front of them. 75€ each. Expensive day at the beach for them but don’t feel sorry for them even one bit.
Now this is some intense schadenfreude
Going to s semi final is not an “essential ” part of most household budgets
Maybe they shouldn’t have parked on the footpath?
Can I just do what I want and use the “COST OF LIVING CRISIS!” as an excuse? Twitter is such a plague and everyone who uses it is fucking boring.
“Let me get this straight. You think those illegally parked cars getting clamped is funny?”
“I do. And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.”
Clamp the bastards I say.
Sorry but can’t any sympathy for people parking on footpaths, no matter how wide it is
Fuck you for parking on a footpath, hope the fine sucks.
She has since deleted it. Clearly faced a tonne of backlash, and rightfully so.