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The room is now equipped with 18 computers - including 12 donated along with two printers and a scanner by Hewlett Packard, which continues to … Emma Mhic Mhathúna, a mother of five who was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer following an incorrect smear test result, vowed: “I’m going to … 424 72 0000124739 00000 n Community Members . The mum-of-five is one of the women who have discovered that their cancer was missed by CervicalCheck after a smear test was wrongly found to be negative. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar spoke of his "disgust" at an unofficial Fine Gael proposal to make a terminally ill woman a "Government advocate" in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal. 0000008907 00000 n “If you just go back to now and the previous few weeks you’ll realise that people did panic-buy food.”Waste collectors say there’s more going into brown bins, too – and people are buying more food with packaging because they want to make sure food isn’t contaminated, he says.With the council’s services stretched, Breen wonders if there is more dumping or fewer resources to clean up the streets, he says.“We don’t actually know if there has been an increase of it or has there just been a decrease in the other services,” he says.“Street cleaning has decreased, the emptying of bins on streets doesn’t happen as regularly,” says Breen.Burke, the independent councillor, says he thinks the uptick in dumped domestic waste is because those who would normally have dumped illegally have more waste at home to get rid of.“It’s just people with a mindset, ‘Ah sure, I’m not going to pay and I don’t have to pay and I’m just going to dump’,” says Burke.Others, though, point to the other side of the waste equation. 0000128275 00000 n
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0000124517 00000 n Sorcha Nic Mhathúna spotted the poem, scrawled on two pieces of paper and taped on the side of a street bin on South Circular Road in Dolphin’s Barn. Five minutes of silence was reportedly held, before Emma spoke to the crowd. She comes from a real teaching background with her father, mother, sister, sister in law and grandmother all being teachers. 0000127720 00000 n Ms Mhic Mhathúna (37) is not able to receive treatment for it as she also suffers from Crohn's Disease. 0000118819 00000 n 0000019612 00000 n “Basically people using this opportunity to put out their rubbish,” he says.“The word from the council is that they don’t have the capacity to be dealing with the increase in illegal dumping at the moment,” says Horner, the Green Party councillor.Big items left on the street are not being collected as regularly at the moment, she says.This service requires two people to go round in a van which is not possible because of social distancing, says Horner.The council has had to bring in precautions to keep staff who collect waste safe too.Including new work schedules to allow for social distancing and new hygiene and safety protocols, said the council’s chief executive Owen Keegan in response to a recent query from People Before Profit Councillor Hazel De Nortúin.On Monday, a spokesperson for the council said that: “All waste services are operating as normal in the Dublin City area.”Those needing extra waste disposal should contact their private service provider, the spokesperson said.“Waste companies have indicated that they may be able to provide additional short term options to customers who need assistance,” said a spokesperson for the council.While in areas which use bag collection instead of wheelie bins, additional pre-paid bags can be presented for collection, the spokesperson said.Nic Mhathúna, who lives in Kilmainham, says that the council is normally good for collecting illegally dumped rubbish.
“There might be three or four bags normally.”Households seem to be creating more waste, says Declan Breen, a waste prevention officer for My Waste, a government initiative that guides people on managing waste.Part of that is a hangover from the early pandemic, says Breen. “It’s at a crisis.”Last week, Nic Mhathúna sent a photo of a bin in Kilmainham that is being used as an illegal dumpsite, too.The bin is full. Emma Mhic Mhathúna obituary: Young mother at the centre of the cervical cancer scandal ‘I shouldn’t be dying, that’s what makes this a tragedy’ Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 00:57. 0000001736 00000 n