Illegal parking on the footpath.

My experience of DSPS is that they are only interested in the ‘low hanging fruit’, overstaying on the meter, blocking clearways etc in the same few high traffic locations.

Get on to you local councillor, log the amount of times you see cars parked there, take photos of the blockages.

The councillor might be able to make on roads with someone who can help in the council.

If there is a local newsletter or Facebook page it might be worth posting it there too. If a few of you can get on to the councillor, they might take it a bit more seriously.

Just get on with your life. Honestly, if somehow it happens that no cars park on that path ever again will it improve your quality of life in any way?

The owner telling people to park illegally is part of the problem, people parking illegally are committing the offence and are the problem. If they are Irish they will already know it's illegal to park on the footpath and if a forgiener doesn't bother to learn the local laws that is their problem.

The car isn't damaged by letting air out of the tyres. The tyres may be damaged if the operator skips their daily inspection and drives for a long distance, if you can't tell that you have flat tyres when starting off you shouldn't be driving.

We don't enforce our laws. The repeated illegal parking isn't actioned. People don't slow down for red lights. We've a massive problem with anti social behaviour. It's illegal to be intoxicated in public. Etc

The chances of getting done for letting the air out of an illegally parked vehicle are miniscule. And if you are a video won't show you removing the dust caps. My lace where open so I had to tie it, then I noticed that the other was loose so I tied that. Reasonable doubt! Or use the defence that the scumbags used to get off pushing a woman under a train on camera, the others lead me astray and it was peer pressure.

How exactly does it impact you? Is it that you occasionally have to walk around a car which adds an extra couple of seconds to your Sunday evening lap around the estate? If it was directly outside your own house you might have a point but it's around the corner and out of sight.

I offered some genuine advice to not let such a trivial issue continue to consume so much of your time and energy. You were up at 3am last night posting about this. Forget what I said and carry on stalking Airbnb, writing to councillors who couldn't care less, contemplating vandalising the guests cars and losing sleep for the next few months/years over a car that's parked on a footpath.

Read my posts again. I'm not condoning parking on footpaths or arguing that there's nothing wrong with doing it - I don't agree with it either. All I've said in this thread is that the OP is investing a lot of time and energy into a cause that will ultimately lead nowhere and yield no results. This neighbour has rattled the OP and now he's dedicating hours each day to try and get one over on him. Did he forget to include the part where he confronted the owner of the property about this issue? Or did he just report it to Dublin Parking Services "multiple times" without even attempting to contact the one person that can do something about it immediately?

My advice to the OP was to let it go and move on. There's more important things to worry about. This isn't something that should be preventing him from spending quality time with his family, sleeping through the night and generally enjoying his life - but it clearly is.

What did the owner of the property say when you went to them about the issue?

Fair play OP for taking the time to follow this up. Report to Gardai & Airbnb. Owner obviously knows it's illegal so can't see you getting much joy there.

It's blatantly obvious from his posts that this is down to an issue with the neighbour. Doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

OP, did you get on to the Council and state that people are storing their private property on the public pedestrian thoroughfare that they are required to safeguard for citizens.. vehicles being used to deliberately restrict and obstruct vulnerable pedestrians navigating on the designated path, and they are refusing to act?

On my way to drop the children to school there are 2 cars on the same street we encounter that do this. You have to side skirt into the persons garden for the first one as there is no garden wall. The second you need to go onto the road as they have a garden wall and the buggy and bike cant fit through. Its quite selfish, are there really people of car driving age that are that unaware? This thread has me thinking ill drop a note on the car wiper next time passing, im such a chicken lol

Not as long as it does to stay on the thread criticising the OP

Any update OP?