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Communities all around Westmeath are doing their part over the Easter bank holiday weekend to make their local areas a cleaner place to live with An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign. The National Spring Clean campaign is Ireland’s largest anti-litter initiative organised by An Taisce and funded by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

A number of farmers in Kilkenny have been served with notice under section 9 of the litter pollution act informing that them unless they have cleared up rubbish on their land within 21 days, fines of up to €130,000 may be issued.

An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign is well underway in County Westmeath with hundreds of groups organising clean-up events throughout the county during April. The National Spring Clean campaign is Ireland’s largest anti-litter initiative organised by An Taisce and funded by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign, begins next week and runs throughout the month of April and, already, community groups from all over Kilkenny have signed up to take part.

A large scale clean-up operation had to be undertaken next to one of the county’s top beauty and tourist spots — which included the deployment of an abseiling team — Ballina District Court heard on Tuesday.

Coláiste Iognáid has been named overall winner in the Galway City Council's Adopt-a-Spot Competition 2010.

Inspector Martin Byrne told a meeting of the Castlebar Joint Policing Committee this week that he would endeavour to get the gardaí in the town to carry out more enforcement on litter offences. The members of the committee were given a presentation at the meeting by Sharon Cameron, the environmental awareness officer from Mayo County Council, on the issue of litter and enforcement in the county.

A man from Ballyvary was convicted at Castlebar District Court this week for illegally dumping litter.

Fine Gael town councillor Alan Shaw has welcomed the latest IBAL (Irish Business Against Litter) report which highlights the continued need for targeted investment in litter control measures all year around.

The Mayor of Castlebar, Cllr Ger Deere, is to personally go through late night CCTV footage to identify people responsible for late-night littering on the streets of the town centre and have them fined for their actions.