TRASHED!

There is trash…everywhere…in the street, in the bushes, in the canal…EVERYWHERE!

Ireland has laws against littering, but just like most other low level laws, they are fairly lax about enforcing them. It seems that no one here can bear to hold a piece of garbage for more than a few seconds. Possibly an allergy… I am no tree-hugger, but I am getting close to picking up a plastic garbage bag and forming my own road crew. (They do have road crews here as well for criminal community service, but it must not be up to par with our road crews… Our shoplifters and vandals know how to clean a road!)

This is really the only thing I have found so far that really bothers me. Not in a break-your-heart sort of way, just in a fingernails-on-chalkboard, irritating-sibling, dirty-diaper sort of way. It seems to be more than just laziness on the part of drivers and walkers to hold on to their trash. It is willful (garbage lodged in bushes and the like). Fortunately when it’s gray and rainy, you don’t notice it so much…and it’s gray and rainy a lot…

I guess this is why some call it "Dirty Dublin."