Parked Where a Garda Told You To
A Garda can direct traffic in a way that overrides the normal parking rules. If a Garda told you to stop or park in that spot — for example during a diversion, an incident, a checkpoint, or event marshalling — you were following a lawful order. Because that order overrides the parking rules it displaced, you cannot be found to have broken those rules.
Legal basis
Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 182/1997) art.6(1)-(2).
How to identify this in your case
Is this you? A Garda personally directed you to stop or park at the location where you got the ticket. Write down the time, the exact location, and the Garda's name or station if you know them. Any incident or event reference number will also help your appeal.
Sample appeal wording
formal
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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