Ciaran’s call out forces dumpers to collect rubbish

By Paul Byrne

A proud Cornamucklagh man who called out dumpers on social media last month after he discovered bags of rubbish dumped near his home in the picturesque omeath village has revealed that the culprits have returned to the scene of the crime to take away the litter. Well known musician and Cornamucklagh native Ciaran phillips threatened to “name and shame” those responsible for dumping up to twenty black bags of rubbish close to his home last month. He released a video on social media shortly after finding the bags and called out the culprits saying

“There is an epidemic of it going on here. Where I live is the most beautiful quiet spot, full of nature, and then some dirty divil comes along and does this,” said a visibly angry Ciaran on the video.

He warned those responsible that he would go through the bags with a fine tooth comb to find evidence of who had dumped the bags. Ciaran and a friend of his spent a couple of days going through the rubbish while transferring it into two separate tonne bags. Following the search through the bags Ciaran is confident he knows who the person who dumped the rubbish is.

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