Woman shells out €5,000 in parking fines

A WOMAN has had to remortgage her home to pay a massive backlog of parking fines, a court heard yesterday.

Michelle Coughlan was facing the prospect of more than 200 summonses for parking offences in Cork city.

However, she walked into City Hall at lunchtime yesterday and handed over a bank draft for €5,000. Solicitor Diarmuid Kelleher, who represented Ms Coughlan, said that raising the money involved re-mortgaging her home.