Is pavement parking illegal everywhere in Northern Ireland?

No. Northern Ireland does not have a blanket ban on all pavement parking, but restrictions and obstruction laws still apply.

nidirect explains that, outside urban clearways, there is no general blanket ban on pavement parking. However, yellow-line and other parking restrictions on the road also apply to the adjacent footway.

Even where no parking restriction applies, a vehicle causing an obstruction can become a police matter. So “not automatically banned” does not mean “always acceptable”.