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Sat 05 May 2004Calls to suspend clamping contractTwo members of Galway City Council have called for the suspension of the current clamping contract for the city following the refusal of a clamper to release the car of a man who urgently needed to bring his sick child to hospital.Mr Declan McDonnell, a PD councillor, said the incident outside a doctor's surgery threatened the good name of the city.