Madam, - I wonder would your paper consider starting a "name and shame campaign" on the dirtiest places in Ireland by setting up a voting card on your website and then publishing a top 10 each week together with the names of the owners or those responsible for the building, site or area?
I have been prompted into requesting this by the unbelievably filthy state of the buildings on Essex Quay which I have to pass each morning and which hundreds of tourists also pass each day on their way to Merchant's Quay, Christchurch or Guinness.
Just start walking from Capel Street bridge on the the Sunlight Chambers side of the quay, keeping your eyes at ground level, and you'll see what I mean. It's hard to imagine how the people who work in the buildings can look at the squalor.
And what building is only 100 yards further up the same side of the street?. . . the Dublin City Council Offices on Wood Quay. - Yours, etc,
JOE VALENTINE, Avondale Lawn, Blackrock, Co Dublin.