The city council is now facing calls for a special task-force to be set up, drawn from several directorates including environment, housing and law, to tackle the issue head-on in several pockets of Mayfield.

City Hall is working on a long-term strategy to eliminate the scourge of illegal dumping on a vast site on the northside of Cork city.

Local authorities need to work with the HSE and medical professionals to crack down on the illegal dumping of medical waste, according to one representative from a town where needles and other materials were found on a roadside.

The Environmental Protection Agency is coming under pressure to tackle long-standing issues with illegal dumping on the northside of Cork city.

The Environmental Protection Agency has asked Cork City Council for a full report on a vast illegal dump on the northside.

Cork City faces a potential €250,000 bill for the clean- up of a notorious illegal dump site — again.

A former waste company operator has been given another two weeks to come up with detailed information about what happened to the money he made from his illegal dumping activities in Co Donegal or else he will go to jail for contempt of a High Court order.

Social media is "hugely contributing" to illegal dumping in Meath, according to the local authorities who spent over €2m of taxpayers money in clean-up operations last year.

Two council waste management employees were caught red-handed by a member of the public - illegally dumping a mattress and a sofa on a public footpath.

Drones and CCTV are to be used in a bid to clamp down on illegal dumping.

Electrical appliances and children's swing sets are among the items still being cleaned up in parts of Tallaght in Dublin after Halloween.

Six cameras are to be placed in illegal dumping blackspots in top tourism areas in Kerry.

The extent to which people are illegally dumping rubbish on country roads was highlighted yesterday when it was revealed that a special team of council workers recovered 2.18 tonnes of rubbish in just 12 days.

The use of covert cameras is to be extended to more illegal dumping blackspots in Kerry in the hope of providing conviction-securing evidence.