Council spends €1,000 a kilometre to clean up Waterford tourist route

A councillor is pleading with the public to “act responsibly” and not litter, after a local authority spent €18,000 clearing an 18km stretch of road.

Waterford’s Cllr Liam Brazil said the cost to the council was “outrageous” and he said he wanted all litter offenders prosecuted.

The clean-up on the R680, between Kilmeaden and Carrick-on-Suir, took workers nine days.