Half-hour parking amnesty costing Mallow €84,000 a year

The introduction of 30 minutes of free parking in Mallow has cost the local authority large sums of money and the town’s main streets have become clogged up.

That’s according to council officials who studied the effects of the half-hour parking amnesty, which was introduced on May 5.

They said that income had reduced by 17% between May and the end of July, compared to the same period last year.