Strike by Dublin binmen hits as waste is piled high on city streets.
Due to the industrial dispute between the municipal employees and Dublin Corporation over pay, household and business refuse collections have not been taking place. The result has approximately five thousand tonnes of rubbish dumped on the streets of the capital.
The area in and around Moore Street is particularly badly affected, with market and shop waste piled high in derelict spaces.
Creating an unsightly and stinking mess for the citizens.
Householders have the option of burning their rubbish, but some dispose of it at public green spaces.
Strikers have prevented the removal of rubbish and maintain pickets round the clock, preventing bin lorries from Dublin Corporation refuse services to pass.
The threat to human health from all of this has been debated, but a group of women describe what it is like to live next to heaps of uncollected rubbish.
The insects have crawled out of it night after night.
We have burned it, but it's still accumulating just the same.
The rats are all in the back gardens...late at night when its silent they come out.
A '7 Days' report broadcast on 16 July 1968. The reporter is John O’Donoghue.
