Cigarette butt woes

St Patrick’s Day has become a day to celebrate drink and tobacco if our city streets are anything to go by.

Drinking in public is banned under law. However, the so-called law can go out the window on this red letter day. In addition to the drunks, binge drinkers, vociferous trouble makers, and those who vomit and urinate all over our cities, a new problem has also arisen on St Patrick’s Day.

A person cannot walk a foot without stepping on a cigarette butt. Cork city was covered in a blanket of butts the day after the festival. St Patrick’s Day has been celebrated for driving the snakes out of Ireland, but he did nothing to drive out the drunken yob and litter-bug chain smoker.