Five retail outlets in Dublin's Temple Bar, a cinema and the defunct celebrity newspaper Stars on Sunday are among those named today by Dublin City Council as having breached the litter laws.
Redline Entertainments Ltd operating as The River Club, the Temple Bar Natural Healing Centre's therapy outlet Melt and the popular tourist restaurant Gallaghers Boxty House were among those to fall foul of the litter wardens in Dublin's so-called "cultural quarter".
Other names listed in a public notice, carried in today's newspapers, are: Bunnys Cabaret and Restaurant; Tivoli Cinema; and Mr Barry Austin, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, trading as the Heavenly Food Company.
Fines of up to €1,500 in addition to costs of up to €190 were awarded to the city council in each case following successful prosecution under the Litter Pollution Act, 1997.
Previous offenders are Dublin Bus, Temple Bar's Thunder Road Café and the Hot Press Music Hall of Fame.
The council decided to begin the "name and shame" policy against offenders in April 2000. The move was described at the time as a "publicity stunt" by the campaign group Irish Businesses Against Litter, which said it distracted from the need for more litter wardens with greater powers of enforcement.
