Recession fails to dampen Dublin city’s car clamping

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.

Figures released by Dublin City Council show that to the end of November 56,594 vehicles had been clamped in the city, compared with 59,328 vehicles clamped in the whole of 2008.

A spokesman for the local authority said: “We expect about the same number of vehicles will be clamped this year as last year.”