Lorry loads of 'evil smelling' offal causing huge issue in Kilkenny
Here's what made the front page of the Kilkenny People on this week, fifty years ago! (October 3, 1975)
The members of Kilkenny Corporation have got their noses up over evil smelling trucks which carry stinking offal through the city.
“The smell would knock you kicking,” declared Ald M McGuinness.
“The stench is unbelievable,” added Mr M Lanigan.
“It’s a disgrace,” said Ald K Crotty, TD.
“We must prosecute,” asserted Miss M Tynan.
“It will have to be eradicated,” said Mr T Martin.
Acting Co Manager Mr P Whelan said he was concerned about the problem being created by the trucks and it was his earnest intention to stop it.
What he was seeking at present was the best method of stopping the problem.
Ald M McGuinness, who raised the matter, said that one of the foul-smelling lorries had been parked in Assumption Place for four days and ‘you would want a peg in your nose’.
Kilkenny was trying to promote itself as a tourist centre, but the lorry loads of stinking offal being carried through the city was not helping.
LOCAL FARMERS GETTING OLDER
Almost 50% of all farmers in the South-East are over 55 years, while a substantial number of holdings are occupied by persons who have no direct descendants.
This information was given to a meeting of the South Eastern Regional Development Organisation on the discussion of the EEC’s voluntary scheme retirement for farmers.
The Organisation felt that the structural reform of farms in the region was very necessary.
Owing to the very good quality of land in the region productivity would be increased considerably if holdings were restructured.
The consequent improvement in farmers’ incomes would ensure that the greatest possible numbers are retained on viable holdings in the region.
At a time when manufacturing and service sectors cannot provide sufficient jobs for those seeking employment it is important that as many of the active age groups as possible are retained in agriculture.
The age structure in many rural parts of the region is such that unless positive steps are taken to retain or attract the younger age groups serious socio-economic problems will arise.