Advertisement Signup for the Limerick Post newsletter Sign Up“I wish to thank the Farranshone residents who initially raised their deep concern about Limerick Council spraying glyphosate, a poisonous herbicide, in their community last September. And it doesn’t wash off in the rain, unless you have a power washer – once its dry, it’s made to stick,” Beyond Glyphosate Limerick claim. The group says there are plenty of alternatives such as Foamstream, mechanical weeding machines, mulch, salt, or organic vinegar-based weed killer. Since 2020, Louth County Council are using only “organic non-pesticide products”, Cork City Council, Dublin City Council, and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council are only using chemical herbicides to treat invasive species. Limerick Council said it would look at all the elements raised by councillors around the use of glyphosate and come back to them on it.