Isnt Ireland Filthy

stevoman · 30-04-2008 02:43PM #1

I was reading on an article today about how a bycycle tour operater had pulled out on his tours of Ireland because people he had been selling the tours to where complaining about the amount of litter around the Irish countryside. They said it was a far cry from the green green Ireland that was sold to them.

This hit home with me ,as from living and growing up in the midlands i have walked and driven my share of country and national roads and the one thing that always bugs me is the amount of litter thrown from car windows into ditches. I think it is filthy. When i moved to New York first i couldnt beleive how such a massive city could be so squeeky clean. This was even more evident when i moved back home and it really highlighted the problem for me. I remember talking to a yank one day on the train on the Dublin Galway line on the way to Dublin one day and she mentioned to me that Ireland is a lovely country, the only thing she couldnt understand is why we have so much rubbish on the sides of the roads.
What really bugged me one day was i was out helping clean up the roadsides for the tidy towns. The next day on the road i was cleaning a person had thrown out the waste of about 3 peoples McDonalds out the car window!:mad:

I just though id like to hear what other think on the subject.

Really though, isnt our countryside absolutly filthy. Its most shocking when you actually walk by ditches and see whats thrown in them. For such a beautiful country, why are we so filthy????

Sherifu · 30-04-2008 02:48PM

Dirtbags. I've seen dirtier places though.

Don1 · 30-04-2008 02:50PM

It is a filthy place alright. Better than it was admitedly. Just noticing it myself out on the bike last night. Ditches full of crap.
There are worse countries, but not many supposedly developed ones.........

Jigsaw · 30-04-2008 02:50PM

I wouldn't go so far as to say it is absolutely filthy, but there is a clear difference when you go to big cities in mainland Europe and see how clean they are in comparison. People who drop litter are tw@ts.

Ross_Mahon · 30-04-2008 02:55PM

I think they should make cheesy videos from the 80s educating children not to litter, and it has this techno/funky music with Mr T presenting it.
"Don't litter fools!"

stevoman · 30-04-2008 02:56PM

Jigsaw wrote: »

I wouldn't go so far as to say it is absolutely filthy, but there is a clear difference when you go to big cities in mainland Europe.

Yes but in general the countryside and the ditches beside the road are absolute mank! Its is sick

stevoman · 30-04-2008 02:57PM

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

I think they should make cheesy videos from the 80s educating children not to litter, and it has this techno/funky music with Mr T presenting it.
"Don't litter fools!"

There should be a moandatory fine, be it for a fag butt or a black bag ful of filth it should be the same across the board!

Keano · 30-04-2008 03:13PM

Q. Why are we so filthy?
A. Because people don't care :eek:

AnonoBoy · 30-04-2008 03:17PM

I was just thinking that on the way to work this morning. The street down from where I live was covered in litter and across the road I spotted a guy dig through his pockets, take out a load of old bus tickets, napkins etc and just let them drop onto the ground.

Seriously. What the **** like?

Who raised ye people?

MooseJam · 30-04-2008 03:20PM

Don't know why people say it's not as bad as it was, it certainly is if not worse the place is an absolute sty, Dublin city is the worst, any green area is full of litter as is any road generally, there should be more litter wardens and it should be a prison sentence for those caught and not a fine

Mr. Presentable · 30-04-2008 03:26PM

The people are absolutely disgusting. Where I live people are dumping household rubbish at the bottle bank like its a proper thing to do. They dump bags on any secluded bit of road, or grass. And one Sunday morning early I saw two men run down from where they live with heaps of styrofoam and dump it over a hedge.

I am sick of calling the litter warden, and he must be sick of me at this stage.

AnonoBoy · 30-04-2008 03:27PM

MooseJam wrote: »

Don't know why people say it's not as bad as it was, it certainly is if not worse the place is an absolute sty, Dublin city is the worst, any green area is full of litter as is any road generally, there should be more litter wardens and it should be a prison sentence for those caught and not a fine

Yeah. Why are the murderers and rapists taking up that valuable prison space when we could have littering and TV Licence dodging types in there.

The place is a kip but I think fines are ok for the moment for littering.

Mr. Presentable · 30-04-2008 03:28PM

MooseJam wrote: »

Don't know why people say it's not as bad as it was, it certainly is if not worse the place is an absolute sty, Dublin city is the worst, any green area is full of litter as is any road generally, there should be more litter wardens and it should be a prison sentence for those caught and not a fine

Anywhere where there are numbers of people on social tends to be worse for litter and dumping. It must be to do with not having pride in or respect for whatever you didn't earn.

MooseJam · 30-04-2008 03:29PM

they are obviously not ok with the state of the place, littering is destroying the country and should be viewed as a serious crime and offenders locked up

stevoman · 30-04-2008 03:29PM

here's a pic of carlow i got from the internet. typical of every town in ireland. the goverment thinks if they just throw money at an advert campaign it will go away. in all their wisdom its beyond them to hire more wardens....

nice1franko · 30-04-2008 03:29PM

yore ma

RedXIV · 30-04-2008 03:32PM

when we went to vienna on a school tour i can remember looking around the city trying to see if i could spot ANY litter. took me about 2 and a half hours to find a sweet wrapper and then to my utter shock, an old guy walking down the street, passed it, stopped, picked it up and dumped it in the bin about 100 metres away.

He got a bit worried when 40 irish students started to cheer for him though....

Phaetonman · 30-04-2008 03:35PM

Its not filthy. You should visit more countries if you think Ireland is filthy.

bluto63 · 30-04-2008 03:42PM

Seriously, how much effort is it to carry a piece of rubbish for an extra couple of minutes? Really? There's bins all over the place, use them!

MooseJam · 30-04-2008 03:42PM

lol I've been to many countries and the first thing you notice is how clean they are, Ireland is a filthy pigsty

chickenhawk · 30-04-2008 03:48PM

There is a narrow road behind my house and it is rarely used. People sometimes dump on it. One day I was walking the dog and found a guy dumping a fridge on it. There is a place about ten miles down the road where you can bring most things to be recycled legally and he couldn't have been bothered. I pointed out to him that he could have brought it there. Him and his mate replied with a few choice words. It would have cost him two euro in petrol. His new windscreen probably cost him 200. You should drive carefully on bad country roads, stones can fly from anywhere.

Don1 · 30-04-2008 03:57PM

Phaetonman wrote: »

Its not filthy. You should visit more countries if you think Ireland is filthy.

Visiting poorer countries maybe, but in terms of economic wealth and development Ireland is one of, if not the, dirtiest.

There are nowhere near enough bins still. Better than it was, but more are needed. (with small openings to stop f**kers putting their household waste in them!!

Illegal dumping needs waaaay stiffer penalties. Manditory jail time I think. Out the country road I live on there are several bags dumped each week. Also matresses, a mircorwave, wardrobes and even a cooker!

Some w**kers also stole our wheelie bin, emptied the contents out further out the road and obviously is now using our bin, just to avoid the rental! What the hell like!

ART6 · 30-04-2008 03:58PM

I have a friend who, some time ago, saw a passing car passenger toss half consumed fast food and packaging out of the window. When the car stopped at the traffic lights my friend toosed the lot in the window with the remark "I think ye droppped this?" I've always admired his neck!

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CodeMonkey · 30-04-2008 04:11PM

f*ck em. Let them cycle in England.

The dublin city centre is not too bad anymore because dublin city counsil have cleaning trucks sweeping the streets all the time. But that just hides the problem which is people's attitude to littering. Ireland is really quite bad.

johnny_adidas · 30-04-2008 04:15PM

along with the fine, people caught littering or dumping should be forced to do a days work cleaning up messes of an equivalent size with a pink luminous vest and 'im a dirty ****' written across the back. the embarrassment should make them think twice the next time. fining them wont stop them doing it again, but at least this way they would be improving the situation.
they should have prisoners out earning their free meals too but thats for another day

bluto63 · 30-04-2008 04:24PM

They should be punished like dogs when they let one go on the carpet. Stick their noses in it

120_Minutes · 30-04-2008 04:32PM

this country is a ****heap and its the fault of the people living in it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 30-04-2008 04:33PM

Phaetonman wrote: »

Its not filthy. You should visit more countries if you think Ireland is filthy.

I've been in nineteen of them and, with the exception of India, Ireland is the dirtiest.

What countries have you been in that are worse? Apart from third world ones?

What your post highlights is the massive amount of denial we have in this country.

I am pie · 30-04-2008 04:55PM

"...What your post highlights is the massive amount of denial we have in this country..."

eh ???

1 post = massive amount of denial

Did you not read the other posts saying Ireland has a litter problem, which it does, or are you sabre-rattling with an agenda ?:rolleyes:

AnonoBoy · 30-04-2008 05:21PM

I am pie wrote: »

"...What your post highlights is the massive amount of denial we have in this country..."

eh ???

1 post = massive amount of denial

Did you not read the other posts saying Ireland has a litter problem, which it does, or are you sabre-rattling with an agenda ?:rolleyes:

He was talking about the massive amount of denial in the country. Not on boards.ie

Isnt Ireland Filthy

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