Dublin City Council is contacting drivers who were illegally clamped in the first seven months of this year.

THE economy has hits the skids but there is at least one area where productivity is as high as ever — car-clamping.

Around two hundred Dublin car owners failed to reclaim their cars after getting clamped last year.

IT seems at least one profession is recession-proof: the number of cars clamped in Dublin city this year is likely to match the figure for 2008.

FEWER vehicles were clamped in Dublin last year according to new figures, but the clamping rate in Cork city increased in 2008.