KKB volunteers clean up 'shocking' laneway in Kilkenny

Approximately seven years worth of rubbish (judging by the dates on some of the discarded items) have been cleared from a laneway in Kilkenny City.

Volunteers from Keep Kilkenny Beautiful (KKB) recently attended to the laneway behind a row of residential properties at Francis Mac Manus Square.

It took about three visits and about seven hours of volunteer work but the KKB team were delighted with the final result.

KKB volunteer Fabian Gaspari, who was raised in Francis Mac Manus Square, is now hopeful that the area can be regularly maintained.

“The amount of rubbish we found was shocking,” he said.

“The pile we had at the end must’ve been at least a metre tall.”

KKB have also placed a lot of recent attention on cleaning around the ring road, and were helped in their latest efforts by members of staff at State Street, who they have taken to social media to thank for their time.