Council clears over 100 dumped tyres

The county council has removed 109 illegally-dumped tyres from a stream in Canningstown.

Last week, gardai were appealing for information from locals in the Canningstown area about the dumping of the tyres in a river - the second time in recent weeks - at Ardmone, Canningstown.

They were dumped in the river some time between Tuesday, June 18, and Saturday, June 22.

Previously around 30 tyres had been cleared from the same spot by locals and used on farms.

Bailieborough councillor Niamh Smyth is urging locals to be vigilant and to search their memories if they saw anything suspicious in the area.

“It couldn’t have been easily done,” she told The Celt. “Obviously, after the first time, the same culprits, whoever they are, came back to the spot and dumped more tyres, probably hoping that they would be taken away as before.

“To get rid of 120 tyres would cost a lot of money and it’d be a big job. Just getting rid of them would require a lorry, a large van, maybe a trailer and couldn’t be done by just one person.

'A local farmer will be able to reuse them at his silage pit, which is, obviously, far better a solution than just dumping them,' she said.

The Bailieborough councillor was initially told it would take 'a few weeks' but this morning she was informed that they were being cleared.

Bailieborough Garda Station can be contacted on (042) 966 5102.