Littering, illegal dumping top list of voters' complaints

Website shows scale of problem across the country

Padraig O'Sullivan, a Fianna Fail East Cork candidate, stands where part of a rural road has collapsed in Knockraha, Co Cork. Picture: Clare Keogh

Littering and illegal dumping are the biggest cause of complaints from voters ahead of the local elections, according to the new figures from a national website.

The fixyourstreet.ie website, which was set up to give voters an easy way to report problems in their area, received over 4,400 complaints last year about dumped matresses, black bags and plastic in hedgerows. This represented almost half of all complaints made last year to the website.

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