Watters urges public to keep on reporting dumping offences

By Brooke Bannon

THERE has been widespread disgust with the news of a mass dumping of rubbish in one of County Louth’s popular natural beauty spots in Omeath.

A total of eighteen black bags of rubbish and a large quantity of cans and bottles were found scattered just off the Turf Road in Omeath, along with the remains of a bonfire.

Local Sinn Féin Councillor Antoin Watters highlighted the issue on his social media claiming that evidence had been found with a name and address and that a fine will be sent out, while also prais- ing the Louth County Council Litter Wardens for their great work.

“Great Work from the Louth County Council Litter Wardens”.

When speaking to Councillor Watters he informed us that “Unfortunately rubbish dumpings have been happening every week in Louth’s rural areas, With large scale dumpings like this happening at least once a month”.

Councillor Watters claimed that a fine had been sent out to the person involved in this dumping but he would rather see a larger scale

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Councillor seeks booster pole to improve phone coverage

CLLR. John Reilly has recently conducted a door-to-door survey of phone coverage in the Kilkerley area as part of the Get Connected initiative.

“My recent survey in the Kilkerley area shows that the Vodafone coverage is particularly poor” Cllr Reilly claims. He says the response to the survey has led to Cellnex performing a drone survey on the area. Depending on the results of the data, Cllr Reilly says he is very confident that the Kilkerley area will be in line for a booster pole, which will greatly improve the mobile coverage over 2 square kilometres.

Kilcurry has also been surveyed with drone technology and suitable sites for booster poles will soon be looked into.

Cllr Reilly says that so much of our modern life revolves around technology. Long gone are the times when mobile phones were solely used for making calls and sending texts.

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