SHANKILL AND BRAY WIN TIDY TOWNS MEDALS
BRAY was awarded a bronze medal for its Tidy Towns efforts this year, and Shankill a silver for the second year running.
In Bray, the Tidy Towns team achieved 296 points, up 10 points from last year’s 286.
‘ This is significantly up from the 2014 score of 278, when we began our work on Albert Walk,’ said Chairwoman of Bray Tidy Towns Mimi Megannety. ‘We hope that we will continue with this steady progress over the coming years.
‘Bray Tidy Towns says a big thank you to all our hard-working volunteers for coming out to help; hail or rain and even those beautiful days you would rather have been on the beach. At Bray Tidy Towns we consider the people of Bray who look after their own areas by carrying out tasks including picking up litter, weeding and planting, part of our volunteer community,’ said Mimi.
‘ Thanks must also go to the businesses in Bray who sponsor Bray Tidy Towns as well as those who keep their premises looking lovely with flowers, fresh paint and neat shopfronts and exteriors. There are a number of community groups we have worked with successfully this year, their input has been invaluable in achieving our result. Finally, thank you to Bray Municipal District with whom we work closely to achieve a tidier town.’
Bray Tidy Towns would like to encourage everybody in Bray to take pride in their own areas or ‘adopt’ an area to keep clean and tidy. Bray Tidy Towns are always looking for volunteers and welcome individuals, community groups and business to work with them.
They can be contacted through their Facebook page or by e-mail on braytidytowns@gmail.com
In Shankill, the committee and volunteers were celebrating their silver medal on Monday. They achieved 312 points, up three from last year.
‘We got silver last year for the first time,’ said Chairman Diarmuid McAree. He said that one of their projects this year was completing the planting of a tree for ever one of the people in Shankill. They planted more than 13,000 trees.
‘ The Shankill community collectively and individually did it all,’ he said. ‘ They were great. We have a fantastic team in Shankill. The volunteers were exceptionally good and people rallied around. We are absolutely delighted. We also enjoy ourselves and have great craic, and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council are absolutely brilliant in helping us.’
Elsewhere, there were improvements across the board.
Delgany got 275 points, up two from last year. Kilcoole achieved 246, an increase of five. Greystones took a break last year and this year earned 289, up six from 2015.