The drain in the front garden which overflows with sewage
70-year-old forced to climb into ‘shit’ to clear blockage
“Can you imagine an elderly man in his ‘70’s climbing into shit to shovel nappies into an overflow pipe to clear a drain?”
This is the horrendous image that confronts Diane Byrne whose parents, Tony and Margaret Byrne, who live in Alderwood Grove, Tallaght and who have been trying to deal with sewage overflowing from a manhole cover in their front garden for the last ten years.
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