You Need Oxygen Near Oxigen

There are days when you're tempted to jump the lights at the junction at the Northside Retail Park on the Dundalk by-pass, or as the Town Council prefer to call it, the Inner Relief Road, (which sounds like gastric complication) due to the stench emanating from the Oxigen Depot beside the junction.

In case you've been puzzled by the awful pong that reaches you, even with the windows tightly shut as you drive past, it's coming from their base located just beside the truck diesel stop across the road from the Millenium Centre.

In these times of 'correctness' and health and safety, it's really puzzling how this operation, of waste sorting and recycling, is allowed  to operate with the town boundary, and at times the stench is unbearable in adjoining housing estates of St Alphonsus Road, Cluan Enda, Oaklawns, and Meadow Grove.

Far lesser problematic enterprises have been forced into extinction through non-compliance agenda and the resulting Court appearances.

What's also very strange is the fact that Fine Gael TD Peter Fitzpatrick lives just over the wall from the stench in Belfry Gardens, and the silence from him on the matter is absolutely deafening.