{"id":653883,"date":"2026-10-13T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/653883\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:58:12","slug":"convenient-parking-app-rolled-out-across-cork-county-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/653883\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Convenient&#8217; parking app rolled out across Cork county towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A new app is now available across Cork county towns to make paying for parking easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Cork County Council\u2019s eParking app is now available in all towns where pay parking is in operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">This project, which commenced in 2024, has been rolled out incrementally across towns including Cobh, Youghal, Kinsale, Fermoy, Mallow, and Macroom, with Bandon joining the programme last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The eParking app, which is available for download for Android and Apple devices, allows motorists to pay for parking directly from their smartphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Users can quickly pay for their parking from anywhere, making the process easier, as well as more efficient and convenient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The introduction of the app reflects changing customer preferences, with increasing numbers of motorists choosing digital and contactless payment options over cash payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n             <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41869755.html\">County mayor Bernard Moynihan<\/a> said: \u201cThe eParking app provides motorists with a convenient and flexible way to pay for parking, while complementing existing cash and card payment options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe strong uptake of the service demonstrates the growing demand for accessible digital services, and this countywide rollout is another example of Cork County Council\u2019s commitment to delivering modern, customer-focused services for our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">To ensure accessibility for all users,  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41922634.html\">Cork County Council<\/a> continues to maintain its pay parking machines and has upgraded many of these to dual-payment machines, enabling motorists to pay by contactless card as well as traditional cash payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The Payzone parking app is also still available as an alternative, and motorists can also pay directly at countycorkparking.ie using a debit or credit card or pay in-store at any participating Payzone outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">To find the app, search for \u2018Cork County Council eParking\u2019 in the app store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new app is now available across Cork county towns to make paying for parking easier. Cork County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,63,61,60],"class_list":["post-653883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-county-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}