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Tue 04 Apr 2003Meters give the motorist parking holiday
Thousands of euros in revenue may have been lost to Dublin City Council when motorists were treated to free parking yesterday because the meters thought it was a bank holiday.
While parking meters in the city centre were working normally, a computer "glitch" resulted in those outside the "Yellow Tariff Zone", which runs from St Stephen's Green and Fitzwilliam Square in the south to Parnell Square in the north of the city, being switched off for the entire day.
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