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pay and display parking in Donegal Town.  Not all towns have these type of rules only the bigger towns do.

if  you don't have a ticket displayed in your car window, you'll be fined.  Fines run from €40-€80

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These machines are placed in some towns and there are traffic wardens who patrol looking at the tickets displayed.  If you don't have one or if the time has expired, you get a ticket.  This machine is one of many in Donegal Town.  Dungloe doesn't have any.

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the ticket man

was writing out tickets the other day when we went to Buncrana.  Buncrana is a pay and display town which means you pay for the amount of time you need to park your vehicle, take the receipt and place it on your dashboard so it can be seen.  The pay and display machine is the box with the P on it.  They are placed all over town at various places.   The ticket man does his rounds and if someone’s time has expired he enters the violation in his computer and takes a photo of the ticket that he has left on the windscreen so there is proof he left the ticket and there is no misunderstanding.
Surplus revenue from these services contributes to urban renewal programmes, public facilities and other forms of local authority spending.