An 'Aladdin's bag' of rubbish dumped in rural Kilkenny

Less than two weeks after seeing the amazing cleanliness by comparison of the rural and urban areas on the trip to Belfast for the Leinster senior hurling championship game against Antrim, the great work of local community volunteers has taken another hit.

With fast food wrappers and bottles being continually thrown from passing vehicle windows, a black refuse sack was dumped close to a local stream. Having failed to fall down the bank and disappear, it disintegrated in the briars and became a public eyesore.

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An Aladdin’s bag of bits and bobs, it included some blue rope, orange and white twine, blue paper hand towel, four lids off fast food plastic containers, lucozade bottles, a Slusher drinks Cup and an Irish Spring water still bottle complete with its recycling instructions for the bottle, cap and label.

Also present were pages from the newspaper dated April 30 that contained bristles from an old scrubbing brush, two manure bags, a couple of Staffords smokeless fuel coal bags, a green coloured hosepipe connector, yards of psychedelic green strimmer cord, mains screw driver, plug, black cable tie, a long brass screw, a small spark plug, jubilee clip, sanding pads, and a rusty Stanley knife blade.

The contents also included Powermaster electrical insulating tape, Lotus and Oleomac two stroke engine oil mix bottles, clear plastic wrapping from a Westaro Dexter Pro paint and roller tray set from Brett’s hardware Store, along with a yellow paint brush and its Fleetwood package.

Amazingly it also included potential ownership details from cash machine withdrawal dockets on mid-mornings in late April from AIB in Carrick-on-Suir and a St Luke’s Hospital car park ticket.

The throwaways were all finished accompanied by a beer can, some luncheon sausage packaging, the wrappings from a packet of Fruit Pastilles.

All are available for collection.