while the bins pile up in Fingal

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Wednesday October 01, 2003 10:21

by conor (wsm personal capacity)

slow start in Dun Laghaire

tailing bin trucks through out Dun Laoghaire suburbs - collection continues

Meet and Greet Nonsense continues

About a dozen off us tailed a truck in Bayview/Cool even this morning. The bin men where quite friendly and said they didn’t know what was going on but had been instructed to pick up all bins. They believe that the grabbing of bins of non collectors would begin from 10th October. We are meeting next Wednesday at Tesco at 7.30 and hopefully this will grow in size !

Meantime the council have put it about that they are collecting all bins because they have been “flooded with calls” from people desperate to pay.
My own view is that 2 brief but well organised blockades in Ballaly and Dundrum are what has stopped them for now. And that further effective blockades would further slow them
– For now I am the only person with this view !

I did give out leaflets on the Grange gorman blockade (Thursday night 5 pm Grange Gorman depot) and people thought it was a good idea though I doubt any one will make the trip.

There were a similar number of people “tailing” trucks in a couple of other parts of Ballybrack at the same time and there are more organised from 11 today. As I was coming into work I noticed a small group following the truck in Sallynoggin as well

There was also a rumour that bins of non payers will be swept up in that small part of Bray that stretches into the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area – so there will be people trying to grab the bins back – Garda intervention also seems likely

Conor