Free Christmas parking days in Laois towns
Laois Christmas shoppers are being enticed to shop local with the lifting of parking charges in three towns.
Every Saturday in December, shoppers can park for a maximum of two hours, at no charge, in Portlaoise, Portarlington and Mountmellick.
Laois County Council has waived their fees, "in support of shopping local in the lead-in to Christmas", urging people to "please shop local this Christmas."
The free days are on Saturdays, December 3, 10, 17 and 24.
However be warned, parking tickets will still be issued to anyone breaking the parking laws.
"This support relates to parking charges only. Parking time limits (2 hours in short term car parking zones) will remain and will be enforced to ensure turnover of spaces.
"Enforcement regarding other parking offences such as unauthorised parking on footpaths and/or unauthorised parking in loading/disabled bays, parking on double yellow lines etc. will continue as normal, further to the provisions of Road Traffic Regulations," the council has stated.
The three towns are the only ones in Laois where parking fees are in place.