Sir, – For years I have been promoting the idea of neighbourhood clean-ups rather than those useless-to-society marathons, walks, climbs, boat trips, etc. When I see those thousands of people wasting energy on those marathons when they could have been cleaning up the streets from Dublin to Cork to Galway to Belfast, I wonder why anybody would give money to their causes for that.
If, however, we saw our streets, parks and rivers being cleaned, who would say that charity was not worth supporting? The Dodder Anglers Association has been running an annual Dodder clean-up for 50 years, with schools and neighbours all joining in. This task has now been taken up by the marvellous Dodder Action Group.
When I heard about and saw the Limerick people clean up their city, I felt vindicated. Well done all. You should be proud of yourselves and I know the feeling of satisfaction there is at the end of the day. And thanks also to the local councils; they are the ones who take all the bags of dirt away. – Yours, etc,
REDMOND O’HANLON,
Honorary Secretary,
Dodder Anglers,
Churchtown,
Dublin 14.