I'll say it again: We're a scruffy lot ...

The littering element in the Irish psyche continues to be depressing.

And it is even more apparent at the moment with the leaves in most hedges absent, and trimming of the same hedges reveals the amount of debris thrown into them.

But it's not all old: even yesterday morning there were fresh used drink cans thrown on top of the newly-trimmed hedges, presumably from Friday and Saturday night homegoers.



But the crowning insult has to be the stuff thrown underneath the sign that greets drivers coming into the town from the motorway side.

The bottom of it says 'Keep Kilcullen Litter Free'.

And behind the wall at its base is a veritable landfill of fly-tipped stuff.



The Tidy Towns committee have to be commended for retaining their will to keep going in the face of such blatant uncaring for the local environment.

Reminds me of a piece I wrote last year soon after the start of the school year, on my personal weblog.

If the youngesters don't care, the future looks even more bleak.



- Brian Byrne.

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