Nun broke hip in slip on dog mess

DOG owners who don’t clean up after their pets soil town and city streets have been branded vandals after an elderly nun slipped on a canine mess, breaking her hip.

The Sister of Mercy nun slipped on excrement on O’Rahilly Street in Nenagh and sustained an impacted fracture of her left hip. Her ordeal prompted a colleague, Sr Anna May Guest, to write to the council “to complain about the unsightly and dangerous condition of the footpaths in Nenagh town due to dog soiling”.

Sr Guest said the other nun, who was not named, had to undergo follow-up surgery at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital following the fall.

Sr Guest said whatever regulations exist in regard to dog soiling are not being enforced. “I do not want to hear of someone else falling and breaking a bone. I request that action be urgently taken to remedy this dangerous condition of dog soiling.”

Fianna Fáil Councillor Jimmy Moran said the victim was still on crutches more than two months after her accident. “It’s time to implement the law. I feel sorry for this lady for that to happen to her. Regulations on dog soiling are not being enforced.”