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Kildare Issues Among Highest No. Of Parking Fines, Per Head Of Population.

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That's according to an Irish Independent analysis.

Kildare is among the counties to have issued the most parking tickets, per 100,000 people.

That's according to an analysis by the Irish Independent, for the period March 2020, to April of this year.

45,000 tickets were issued in Dublin while over 26,000 were handed out in County Cork.

Leitrim waived their ticket charges last year to support businesses while Roscommon has free parking in place.

In Kildare, the publication reports, 14,500 parking tickets were issued in that period.

That's 12,000 ferwer that the period 12 month period.

Paid parking was not suspended in council-owned facilies, but the grace period before fees were required, or fines imposed, was extended.

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