Re: garda cars and illegal? parking
It's SO annoying when this happens!... If it were any other motorist parking blocking a footpath, or parking in a Disabled parking bay, the gardai would (quite rightly) come down on the selfish, inconsiderate, $&£% like a ton of bricks!...
I'm a wheelchair user and it's really frustrating, not to mention dangerous to have to go out onto on the (busy) road and play chicken with the traffic...
I had a similar situation for ages near to a garda station... Could never remain on the footpath at this station for garda cars, and vans, and garda's private cars parked on it... When asked about it, the offenders used to reply "Nowhere else to park them"... I asked if they'd take that as an excuse from any other driver, and they at least had the good grace to look sheepish!...
Anyway, the long and the short of it was, after I was almost killed by a truck while on the road, I got the name of the superintendent for the division. I got in touch with him, explained my concerns and asked him to meet me which he did... He also agreed to walk the route with me... I wisely let him stay on the outside of the path... When we had to get off the path due to the cars parked on it HE nearly was hit by a car (thank you mystery driver!)... He said he hadn't realised it was such an issue, and he promised to get it sorted... To be fair to him, he has... Never so much as a roller skate on the path, these days!
I'd suggest this route to anyone else in the same situation as being well worth a try...
Darth...