Litter posters to be changed

The posters placed prominently around Kilcullen during the town's campaign to get Kildare County Council to play its part in keeping litter at bay are in the process of being replaced.

The original posters highlighted the fact that Kildare County Council was not providing an adequate street cleaning service in the town. The protest campaign culminated last summer in the presentation of a bag of litter to officials and members of Kildare County Council at the Council's headquarters in Arus Cill Dara.

Since then, the Council has undertaken a pilot programme of street cleaning in Kilcullen and a number of other towns in the area, sharing a dedicated cleaning crew. The results have been quite marked.

Now the organisers of the original protest, Kilcullen Community Action, have commissioned a new set of posters. These will use the original very effective graphics but with slogans noting that Kildare County Council IS helping to clean Kilcullen's streets, and asking for the support of the people by taking their litter home.

At KCA's most recent meeting, it was also decided to organise another 'litter event' at the Council's HQ, but this time to thank the Council for its street-cleaning initiative.

"We were quick enough to criticise them, now we should be proactive about complimenting them too," J J Warren said at the meeting. (As a result, members and officials of Kildare County Council were presented with an empty litter bag last Monday.)

In a further discussion about the street-cleaning, compliments were also paid to how quickly the Council crew removed the clippings during a recent cutting of hedges on the road opposite Brigid's Avenue.

Brian Byrne.