Litter? Do it yourself!

Communities which are doing very well in the National Tidy Towns Competition are working themselves to keep their towns and villages litter free.

That was the point made to Kilcullen Community Action by Noel Clare, when he cited Birdhill as a case in point.

"Their Tidy Towns people organise that their litter is picked twice a day," he said, adding that the local organisation had actually paid school leavers to do the work, for fairly nominal sums.

J J Warren said that Aughrim -- a visit to which had been extensively discussed at a previous meeting -- was a similar example. "Really, the communities that are successful in keeping their towns tidy do it themselves," he said.

Brian Byrne.