The St Vincent de Paul in Kerry is appealing to the public to stop leaving bags of donated clothes outside the doors of its charity shops.
It’s after staff at the Vincent’s store in Tralee arrived to work this morning, to find a large quanity of donated clothing piled up in the doorway.
CCTV footage shows five black sacks of clothes were left outside the shop at half five on Wednesday evening.
They were later rummaged through by three different groups of people, who took away some items, and dumped the remainder on the doorstep.
Junior Locke from the Society’s Tralee branch, says this kind of littering carries a hefty fine – and he had this advice for those who try to donate out-of-hours: