Call for court users – including Gardaí – to respect nearby residents

Donegal County Council is to write to An Garda Siochana after complaints about parking near the new courthouse in Letterkenny.

Residents in the Orchard Row apartments have raised concerns about court users and Gardaí taking up parking spaces and blocking access points.

“I went down myself one day and there were two Garda cars blocking residents’ cars in,” Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry McMonagle said at the February meeting of the Letterkenny Municipal District in Milford.

Councillor McMonagle said that ‘resident only’ parking signs should be erected.

He asked the Council to write to the Gardaí and also to other employers around the area of the new courthouse asking their employees to be more mindful of the residents.