Scum. “Proud Irish .. I love my homeland”

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  1. Daughter + friends went camping last night to a well known local lakeside beauty spot.

    Had to do a pizza run out to them around 10. Was sure when I got there the place would be littered with cans, bottles, bbqs, etc., but surprisingly all was cleaned up.

    Faith restored in local humanity at least.

  5. And here we have adverts on spotify about cheap tents to buy for festivals and the like.

    My only thought ”More rubbish left around.”

  6. Not the least bit surprised. Around where I live plenty of locals routinely just chuck their litter on the ground. There’s an actual ring of dog shit circling the flats near me.

    I saw this dickhead step in dog shit and start flipping out a couple of weeks ago as he strutted out of the flats. Said dickhead was oblivious to the fact it was most likely his pit’s shit he’d stepped in. I’d witnessed him taking it out for a dump a couple of day earlier in pretty much the exact same spot.

    If people are willing to trash where they live, it’s hardly surprising they’ll double down when they venture to parts where they don’t.

  7. The weird thing is a lot of them went to the effort of bagging it…

    So why not carry the bag to a bin. Admittedly you’ll have to abandon it there most likely (or, preferably, bring it all the way home) but that’s a bit better at least.

  10. “The problem is there isn’t enough bins. You can’t start blaming people if the council won’t provide enough bins along the beaches.”

    Said some fucking idiot last year when crowds gathered in Dublin during lockdown leaving rubbish. The problem is inconsiderate assholes who don’t care about other people, their surrounding area or the environment. The country needs ad campaigns like the drink driving ones to educate both teenagers and adults to not pollute our roads, rivers, parks and beaches.

    Edited: Added quotes, as the opening two sentences are not my reasoning. You need to read all to get my point

  11. The way the world is atm it reminds me of the 2006 movie “Idiocracy” with Luke Wilson.

    What about the glass they don’t find which ends up in someone’s foot or a dogs paw. I hate selfish people. I was always thought to think of the other person. The new generation today seem to be selfish gits.

    The thing is though, the same situation will probably happen next week and nobody will learn from it. They should make sure there’s at least half a dozen wardens on duty every weekend the weather is good.

  14. While this is shitty behaviour and people should still bring their rubbish home with them, DCC also deserve a huge portion of the blame as well for not only failing to provide more public bins but actively removing them over the last decade, where we’ve gone from 5,000 (which was still lacking in many areas) in 2009-11 all the way down to just 3,200 – 64% of what it was barely a decade ago.

    DCC have not only made clear that they are aware of this, but have actively defended their continued and intentional decisions to exacerbate it (ignore their weasel words around covid – the biggest drop was in the mid 2010s, from 3,500 in 2009-11 down to 3,500 in 2014-16).

    > We feel that if we provide toilets and bins at these locations, it’ll only drive more footfall and create more of an issue from a public health perspective.

    > If we supply more toilets and bins, does that bring more people in? Do we end up with bigger public health issues? It’s a very difficult situation to manage…

    > I think the primary problem is it’s a public health issue from a mass gathering perspective. So, putting everybody into St Stephen’s Green or Merrion Square doesn’t solve the public health issue…

    > We obviously don’t want to shut the city street, I think that will have a detrimental effect for businesses on the street as well as citizens.

    I don’t know what the changes in figures have been, but the sheer lack of public toilets is another major issue that they seem actually take pride in refusing to address.

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