Cork dog wardens to get new technology to track licences

Council also highlights the health dangers of dog waste

Dog dirt can pose a number of health risks to people. Children are especially vulnerable to a parasite which lives in it and can cause blindness.

Plans are being drawn to equip dog wardens in Co Cork with new technology allowing them to remotely access dog licence information, while the council is to beef up educational briefings to highlight health dangers of dog faeces.

The local authority's environment director, Louis Duffy, has said that a number of new measures are being looked at to combat the increasing scourge of dog dirt on footpaths and to identify areas where dog warden deployment would be most effective.