{"id":340455,"date":"2026-02-16T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/340455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:14:12","slug":"our-estate-is-not-a-car-park-residents-demand-discussion-after-donegal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/340455\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our estate is not a car park&#8217; &#8211; Residents demand discussion after Donegal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Residents of a Letterkenny housing estate have called for discussions after parking congestion caused by supporters attending the Donegal v Mayo match at O\u2019Donnell Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parking at O\u2019 Donnell Park was limited to those attending with relevant passes and Garda\u00ed had appealed to the thousands of matchgoers to park legally and safely.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite Garda cones being placed along the R250 Ballymacool Road and patrols carried out, residents of Ballymacool reported that cars lined the roads and access points throughout the estate.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors also caused damage to green areas within the estate, with some vehicles parked on grass verges.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballymacool Residents Association said: \u201cWe have to commend the Gardai and St Eunan\u2019s GAA club for all their assistance. They have tried their best and were out early this morning with cones along the road. Despite this, some people think it\u2019s acceptable to block footpaths, driveways and destroy our green areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The association said they had hoped Garda\u00ed on site and a barrier placed across the estate entrance would have prevented the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, residents said the reality was cars lining both sides of the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we have to do to prevent this from happening again? Discussions need to take place between all parties involved with residents taking priority. This can not and will not be tolerated again on any level. Ballymacool Estate is not a car park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents also raised serious concerns regarding access in the event of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: \u201cWhat happens in an emergency situation? An ambulance or a fire brigade would not be able to get in or out of Ballymacool. This has gone on too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2710\" data-end=\"2898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Residents have now called for urgent discussions so there won\u2019t be a repeat of the problems at future fixtures at O\u2019Donnell Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our estate is not a car park\u2019 \u2013 Residents demand discussion after Donegal game was last modified:  February 16th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of a Letterkenny housing estate have called for discussions after parking congestion caused by supporters attending the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[61180,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,11165,15,16,5,161419,71365,7,8],"class_list":["post-340455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ballymacool","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-letterkenny","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-odonnell-park","tag-parking","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116081437068952122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}