Tourists landing at Dublin Airport are being met by littered approach roads according to a nationwide survey by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL).

The study shows continuing improvement in many towns and cities.

It shows that 76% of cities and towns around the country are deemed to be clean.

But it says the area around the main Irish airport is a blackspot with dumping and casual litter on approach roads.

Over half of overseas visitors to this country come through Dublin Airport.

The study has named Cavan as the cleanest town in Ireland.

While north inner-city Dublin has once again been labelled a litter blackspot.

How often do you litter if at all? What would you define littering as ”“ would you consider cleaning up after your dog droppings or disposing of a cigarette butt for example?

Newstalk Facebook:

href="https://www.facebook.com/brianof">Brian O’Flaherty I’d say littering is dropping something on the ground that doesn’t belong there. I don’t litter and when I had a dog I picked up after it.

href="https://www.facebook.com/naomi.odonovan.9">Naomi O’Donovan Litter is so frustrating! There is a Big sack of Harvey Norman flyers dumped behind our house over 6months ago! We rang them and reported it and they. Never came to collect it and we called city council same! Grrrr

href="https://www.facebook.com/alanpbourke">Alan Bourke We’re a nation of litterers, not helped by the fact that there aren’t enough bins and the ones we have are too small and not emptied enough.

href="https://www.facebook.com/sheila.oflanagan">Sheila O’Flanagan If there isn’t a bin I take whatever it is home with me. And if I had a dog I’d pick up after it. Dog owners who let their pets foul the pavements shouldn’t be allowed to have dogs!

href="https://www.facebook.com/thomasmartin.oconnor.1">Thomas Martin O’Connor It’s shameful the state of the Irish countryside! Plastic bottles and litter abound in the hedgerows, bore end and lay bys of this country, and us trying to promote it as a tourist destination. Why is there not a provision to clear it, of course people shouldn’t dump litter but we live in the real world where scumbags do so we need the councils to do something ….for a change!

href="https://www.facebook.com/ElToten">ElToten KaLero Never. Ever. I don’t get people who see a nice untouched piece of nature and all they can do with it is dump their rubbish in it.
/> It must be a very special kind of low-life small brained ignorant and selfish people who are capable of this.

href="https://www.facebook.com/john.cartner.1">John Cartner This country is a kip, let’s face facts, dog s**t everywhere, litter-strewn hedgeways, fly tipping, cigarette butts, drink cans and bottles. Walk on most beaches and they are full of litter, raw sewage etc. If adults do not set their children a good example then what do you expect. It’s all down to respect…..or lack of it!

href="https://www.facebook.com/michelle.corry.75">Michelle Corry People who litter are disgusting. I wouldn’t and I teach my kids not too. Sadly the type of people who do litter probably don’t care what anyone else thinks of them.

href="https://www.facebook.com/greg.dunne.940">Greg Dunne Phil Hogan just threw away €600,000,000 of the Irish people’s money today. Does that count?