The Margin could not suppress a wry grin when it heard Dublin corporation city manager John Fitzgerald promising that the corpo's avenging angels would pounce on every piece of litter and stomp on every litterbug as part of a £3 million cleanup of this dirty old town.

The Margin is prepared to offer the following suggestion: put litter bins along the Liffey boardwalk where hundreds gather every day, some to even eat their lunch!