Diageo should pay to clean up our streets after Arthur’s Day

When eminent emergency consultant Stephen Cusack describes the streets of Cork as being like the “last days of Sodom and Gomorrah” (Irish Examiner, Sept 29), it scarcely leaves anything to the imagination with regard to the “success” of Diageo’s day of disaster.

If your own newspaper report by Claire O’Sullivan is reliable (and I’m sure that it is) then Arthur’s Day must have been a nightmare of biblical proportion!

The description by a fast food trader in Washington Street who posted that “a walk through the city at 4am before the street cleaners would be a sight never forgotten”, is a disgraceful commentary on those responsible for the hedonistic behaviour of so many of our (mainly) young people.