Parking woes: more than half of parking tickets unpaid in some areas

In Louth and Mayo, nearly 50% of all parking tickets went unpaid. Picture Dan Linehan

Less than half of all parking fines issued in one local council area ended up being paid to the local authority with one serial offender running up more than €3,300 in tickets.

A sample of seven local authorities showed the payment rate in Louth County Council was just 47% last year with cross-border motorists and having to go to court blamed in part for the high levels of non-payment.