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Operator rejects claims by Dr Tony Holohan that car parks are full The car park on Dublin’s Schoolhouse Lane has several floors closed off as demand is low. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

‘We have not got any evidence to support what he is saying, in fact quite the contrary’

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