Sleepless in Kilkee: a holiday horror story
Our annual rent in the caravan park is €1,000. Before I left my home in Carrigaline, Co Cork, I paid my refuse charges of €390 for 2003.
Adjacent to our caravan park a large number of Travellers have taken up residence.
Each day they make a large, smokey bonfire of their rubbish, defecate in the surrounding fields in full and run a compressor into the early morning.
Their half-burnt rubbish attracts a large flock of jackdaws and crows which arrive in the early hours and march up and down the roofs of the caravans and mobile homes in our park while the Travellers’ free-to-roam dogs bark madly at them.
All in all, this is turning out to be a fairly disappointing holiday with little sleep. I have complained twice to Clare Co Council’s environmental division, but they still allow this blatant abuse of the environmental laws. Could I have refrained from paying €390 refuse charges to Cork Co Council and burnt domestic rubbish in my back garden? I think I would be swiftly prosecuted.
The Travellers seek rights. Well, so do I, my family and all the people whose holidays are being destroyed by these inconsiderate members of our society.
Gary Benson,
5, Glenwood Grove,
Carrigaline,
Co Cork.
