Madam, – I saw two young girls rolling a large truck tyre down Townsend Street, Dublin, last Saturday. Presumably they were preparing for a bonfire in three weeks’ time in their locality.
It is a disgrace that each year Halloween revellers break the law by creating huge fires with dangerous materials including rubber tyres and foam mattresses producing pollution on a catastrophic scale.
For tyre companies, Halloween may be an opportunity to conveniently dispose of their waste, with willing children as their hauliers.
Is it not time for the Garda Síochána to step in during the “gathering period” and insist that these materials be returned to their collection points, and that failure to do so may result in prosecution for gatherers and suppliers alike? – Yours, etc,