Quentin Gargan

I always wanted to write headlines for tabloids. The burning issues are rubbish and gorse - they’re both going up in smoke. Lets start with the rubbish….

An ESRI survey commissioned for the EPA showed that 42% of households burn rubbish, and that this increased when the pay-by-weight refuse charges came in. That’s five out of twelve families! People surveyed willingly admitted to doing this, so obviously they don’t know that it is illegal, and downright dangerous. I regularly see galvanised bins with a chimney lid for sale in Bantry.

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Many of us feel frustrated at the corruption in politics and a national agenda set by big business to the detriment of ordinary citizens. But today the environmental consequences are perhaps the most important issue.

Global warming is a huge threat, oil stocks are depleting, and we just can’t afford yet another election in which the environment is either ignored or spun. That’s pretty much the reason I’m running for the Greens in Cork SW. I haven’t been particularly political in the past - I’ve almost always voted for whoever was in opposition, (only to be disappointed when they won).

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