Plea for 'respect for private land'

"I wonder do the people who don’t clean up their shit understand that the field beside New Abbey is not a public park and that access to privately owned land has been traditionally available because those who availed of it in the past were respectful of it?"

That's the blunt comment from a local resident who supplied these pictures after a 'beautiful evening river walk' tonight, writes Brian Byrne. Our correspondent gathered the rubbish together, but didn't have a bag in which to take it away.

The Diary has received a number of reports about similar issues on walkways by the river. Including evidence of 'drinking parties' in private woodlands.

"I don't know what can be done, except to keep highlighting it," another contributor wrote, adding that there's a real danger that landowners will have no option but to close access to their lands if the litter issue, and the sheer bad manners of it, continues.

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