€11 million in parking fines have been handed out since restrictions lifted

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Almost 280-thousand parking tickets, worth at least 11 million euro, have been handed out by local authorities since Covid restrictions were lifted.

Kerry topped the list, issuing the biggest number of fines per capita between March 2021 and last month, according to the Irish Independent.

Over 10,700 parking tickets were issued by the local authority there.

Cork, Waterford, Kildare, Galway and Limerick issuing the next largest number.

Transport commentator Conor Faughnan says the data on Dublin is artificially low:

"The worst in the country is Kerry, remarkably! Parking fines issued is three times per-capita what it is in Cork or Dublin. I know Kerry has some very very large towns like Tralee and a few park carelessly on the ring of Kerry and when there's coaches trying to get by you, you deserve the punishment you get."

"Incidentally we don't see the full Dublin data in this analysis because the clamps aren't included, there's typically about 60,000 clamps in a normal year in Dublin so the Dublin figure's artificially low."

According to the Irish Independent the lowest number of fines issued per 100 thousand people were in Monaghan, Cavan, Offaly, Carlow, Laois and Clare.