Spent a lovely evening this weekend in dun na ri forest. If you've never been id definitely recommend it!

I didn't make the whole trip around taking pictures of litter but having seen another post about it this weekend I thought I'd share my experience. There was no cans of monster or bottles of coke, what was littered around the place was coffee cups and smoothie cups.

There is a lovely coffee van onsite in dun na ri, but surely they are partly responsible for selling disposable containers that people are then littering.

Clearly the 15c return scheme/tax is working, otherwise we'd have seen more bottles and cans. Next is surely disposable one use containers like coffee cups and takeaways bags.

We need a way of tieing these coffee cups and takeaways to people's licence plates or debit cards.

by Opening-Iron-119

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  2. The privilege of being able to go to such a nice place, and then treat it like a dump

  4. Been there many times and was there earlier today, beautiful park. It’s like being in Lord of the Rings. Didn’t see too much rubbish, lots of socks hahahha from people getting wet feet in the paddling pools. Also not a bin anywhere inside the park walks as the rangers would have no way to access them to change bags. Very narrow walk ways.

  5. From what I recall Dún na Rí is so named after an English barracks or fort that still exists in the forest, though in an incredible amount of disrepair

    Also nearby is Cabra Castle, a popular wedding venue with good food, great to have a nose and some chow. They also have a lovely Wolfhound called Oscar

    You’ve also got the town of Kingscourt nearby which is a nice enough wee place, some good places have a bite or a drink, and a very longstanding trad session used to be in Clarks Corner Bar

    I’ve also always found it odd that Dún na Rí(kings fort) is right beside the town of Kings-Court

    The forest also used to be home to a gorgeous herd of native red deer. They were sadly put down during the food and mouth crisis of the noughties

    More recently the forest has been wracked with Ash Dieback, which is sadly killing a great number of Ash trees

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