Hmmmm looks like Ballyloughan beach, that’s where I lost my virginity, that also was rubbish!

In California, locals walking on the beach bring a small litter bag with them and collect a few bits of litter as they walk. Over the course of the day, a lot of the mess is cleaned up through individuals doing a very little bit of clean up.

Great idea and nice to see some civic mindedness as it deters others from dumping their litter when they see people taking some pride in their locale.

In Ireland ‘why should I? I pay my taxes. The Government should do it.’

Hopefully the Property Tax collected in Galway will pay for a local litter collector as the locals themselves don’t know what a bin is.
Shameful that we are letting one of our few precious resources be ruined by litter like this.

great pictures very funny and thought provoking

And who’s gonna clean up all the little pairs of eyes she left around Galway?

You guys have too much time on your hands in there :)

I was on a beach in Salerno a few years back and struggled to find a clean space to sit down. Cigarette butts everywhere and we watched a family of five leave after a picnic and ‘forget’ to take their rubbish ! Wouldn’t have expected an Italian to be the one to point this out. Totally agree with her though, it is not acceptable but unfortunately all too common.

Sad thing is, it’s not just Galway. The rubbish problem, that is.

There are *some* Irish people who don’t litter.

However, in general Irish people are filthy – as our roadside verges, public parks, beaches, abandoned sites, beauty spots, (etc, etc) testify day-in, day-out to natives and visitors alike.

I walk my dog down a country stretch of about three miles. This route is littered with whiskey/coke filled bottles which in fairness looks more like pee filled bottle. I mean who would attempt to fill a litre milk bottle with whiskey/coke…. If was whisky/coke I’d be drinking it not chucking it.