Cavan dirty and dear
For a number of years Cavan town has prided itself on being relatively litter free. This was because it came high in an annual survey carried out by a shadowy organisation called IBAL. In their most recent survey Cavan has fallen back – to 22nd place I hear.
If Cavan is starting to revert to its dirtier nature some of the blame must be laid at the hands of the local County Council. For a start morale amongst council workers is at an all time low. This isn’t helped by the spectre of a three-day week hanging over them, and it certainly hasn’t been helped by being summoned to meetings with the lazy County Manager who, in the first meeting, exhorted them to work harder, and then at a subsequent meeting a week or so later exhorted them to work really harder.
A scheme whereby young people were paid to pick up litter has been scrapped by the council: they need the money to pay councillors who lost their seats. This was quite degrading but it did put money into young people’s pockets, but because working on it was viewed as well not exactly the done thing there were no sons or daughters of sitting councillors being paid to pick up trash – oh no, they had to get far nicer jobs than that – and so the scheme was axed. (Personally I can’t see why a certain councillor’s son who works in Ballyjamesduff couldn’t be given a bag, a shovel maybe, and a bag and told to clean the streets. It’s hard but honest work, but he’s such a delicate little flower.)
