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Busy as ever, Kilsheelan are ready for another Tidy Towns campaign

Kilsheelan have won a cluster of Tidy Town and other National awards in last five years, and of course, Kilsheelan’s Tidy Town pedigree is well known with two National Tidy Town award wins in the 1970’s,
In 2021 we won the Regional Award (South East) – placing joint 3rd nationally
In 2022 we won Sustainability Development Goals Awards for small towns, in recognition to our comprehensive working on many of the UN goals In 2023 we won a Runner up award in Climate Action based on our Tree Planting record.

We also won the Junior Engagement Award in Sustainability Development Goals
Our Juniors won the Age 16-18 Junior Art Competition of the Sustainability Dev. Goals office in Dubin
Last year we finally won the All Ireland Pollinator award – South East – Small Towns, Clonmel has been a winner in Large Town category over many years and despite being so close geographically it was great to see both entries winning together

We also won the ‘Leave no Trace’ award focused on keeping the River Suir Blueway a pristine clean but more importantly natural nature walk in our locality. The judges also complimented our Biodiversity Projects with special attention also to the engagement of Juniors in Art creation reflecting nature and conservation.

We ranked third in the Tree Council of Ireland, Tree Project award having planted 1,800 Trees and 13,000 in last seven years. This is a prize target of our group to be first in this special Tidy Town award within the next two years and we are assured we are on right path
Locally we won the Suircan ‘Alian Species’ Photo competition in 2024.

Outside the remit of Tidy Towns, we won the ‘Volunteer Ireland’ Category for Environmental Protection announced at an awards ceremony in Dublin 2024. This was a massive endorsement of all our work Biodiversity related over last decade

We have rained Gold medal in Tidy Towns since 2017. We rotate 1st in Tipperary with Emly. Emly had the edge in 2024, are great competitors and friends and Tipperary is one if the highest performing counties in Tidy Towns.

This year we have applied for a €20,000 Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Grant to audit and champion more efficient energy usage especially in homes & commercial properties. We are confident of success. This is a key project targeted to us several times by Tidy Towns adjudication.

On March 21st it was formally announced that we had secured €10,000 Grant funding from Community Foundation Ireland supporting Biodiversity auditing and projects in neighbouring farms but also creating sensory garden and other Biodiversity related activities in Loreto School in Clonmel with Transition Year Students

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