Letters to the Editor: Dublin City Council needs to invest in cleaning

Discarded Rubbish pictured on South William Street Dublin.

Thank you so much Daniel McConnell for describing so accurately the filthy state of our capital city (‘ My dear old Dublin is fast becoming a dirty old town’, Irish Examiner, August 6).

I have a shop in Chatham St just off Grafton St and find myself in a constant battle to get Dublin City Council (DCC) to do the most basic cleaning in the area. I walk to work every day along Merrion Row, and in the morning I see the cigarette butts and broken glass from the night before. And in the afternoon, I have to step over the food waste liberated by seagulls from plastic sacks left out by the local cafes.