Waste charge arrears silence

Stubbs Gazette says it won’t be publishing the names of thousands of people who have failed to pay a combined €1.5 million in refuse collection charges owed to Cork County Council.

The private debt-collection agency, which was brought in by the council to collect outstanding charges, said it wouldn’t be printing the names of those who failed to pay because it only does this if a judgement has been granted against defaulters in the courts.

The council sold its refuse collection business to private contractors Country Clean in 2010 and then had to pursue the money it was owed by its former customers.