Campaigners to picket Cullen clinics

THE vigorous campaign of opposition to the introduction of new flat charges for refuse collection in Dungarvan town and throughout Co Waterford is set to escalate in the coming weeks.

Opponents of the €130 charge on households in Dungarvan and €150 in the county have pledged to take their protests onto the streets of the towns and villages, while it is also planned to mount pickets outside clinics being held by Transport Minister Martin Cullen and his Fianna Fáil colleague, Ollie Wilkinson TD.

Protestors who sat in on a Dungarvan Town Council meeting this week made no attempt to conceal their disappointment that councillors didn’t walk out in solidarity with them.