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Garda Aidan O’Mahony makes a presentation to Brendan and Lorna Enright at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
A LARGE crowd gathered last night at The Rose Hotel for Tralee Tidy Towns awards which honoured, businesses, estates and individuals for their efforts over the past year.
Taking place just a day after hearing the news that Tralee had won its seventh Tidy Towns Gold Medal in a row, Chairman of Tralee Tidy Towns, Joe Moynihan, welcomed all present and thanked everyone for their efforts throughout the year.
A short film was shown to the audience of various projects undertaken during the past year, including the murals in Milk Market Lane and paintings by secondary school students which currently hang in Denny Lane.
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Garda Aidan O’Mahony makes a special presentation to Michael McCarthy at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
Special presentations were made to Michael McCarthy for his work at Baile Mhuire, to Town Park gardeners Brendan and Lorna Enright to mark their retirement, to Tidy Towns stalwart Mary O’Brien on her upcoming turns 90th birthday and to Mary Lucey and Mary Kirby of Kerry College of Further Education for the work students did at Milk Market Lane.
Below are photos from the night and the list of winners and runners-up…
Mayor Graham Spring with art teacher at KCFE Mary Kirby, Jean Foley of Kerry County Council and Mary Lucey, Principal of KCFE, at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Joe Moynihan receives a token to mark his retirement from the Ballymac CE scheme at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
Mary O’Brien with a special token to mark her 90th birthday with, at back; Mairead Fernane, Katie Bolger, Josephine Griffin and Garda Irene O’Riordan. In front is Una Buckley and Garda Aidan O’Mahony at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Manor Village residents Freda Conroy, Joan Lynch, Jennifer Mackey and Joe Moynihan at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
LARGE ESTATES
1. Manor Village — 98pts
2. St Brendan’s Park — 93
3. Shanakill — 89
4. Spa Road and Balloonagh Estate — 85
Ashgrove residents at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
MEDIUM ESTATES
1. Ashgrove, Ballyvelly — 94
2. Knockmoyle — 92
3. O’Rahillys Villas — 91
4. Killeen Heights — 89
SMALL ESTATES
1. Quarryvale, Mounthawk — 95
2. Beenoskee — 93
3. Lohercannon — 89
4. Ballinorig Estate/Ballinorig Close — 87
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Hotel category winners Jane Boyle of The Ashe Hotel, Mark Sullivan of The Rose Hotel and Eleanor Carrick of Benners Hotel at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
HOTELS
• Benners Hotel
• The Rose Hotel
• The Ashe Hotel
Pub category winners Tommy Comerford and Lorna Galvin of The Slieve Mish Bar, Carmel Turner of Turners Bar, Rose Dennehy of The Munster Bar at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
PUBLIC HOUSES
• The Munster Bar
• Slieve Mish Bar
• Turners Bar
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Public Buildings/Spaces category winners Jean Foley of Tralee Muncipal District, Joe Moynihan of Rath Cemetery and Fr Padraig Walsh of Our Lady and St Brendan’s at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
PUBLIC BUILDINGS/SPACES
• Tralee Municipal District Offices
• Church of Our Lady and St Brendan
• Rath Cemetery
Gard Irene O’Riordan with Billy Nolan of the Castle Street Revitalisation Group, Michael O’Shea of Tralee Townhouse, Lorna Galvin representing Every Occasion Florists and Ken Tobin of Tralee Chamber Alliance at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
BUSINESSES
• Castle Street Revitalisation Group
• Tralee Townhouse
• Every Occasion Florist
• Ella Maria
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Restaurant Category winners Ronan Hurley of The Roast House, Noreen O’Mahony of Kirby’s Brogue Inn and Emma, Willie and Noreen Connaire of Bella Bia, at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
RESTAURANTS
• The Roast House
• Kirby’s Brogue Inn
• Bella Bia
Mayor of Tralee Graham Spring with Filling Station category winners Kieran O’Shea of O’Shea’s in Blennerville, Vivien Nolan of Nolan’s North Circular Road and Joe O’Connor of O’Connor’s in Rathass at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
FILLING STATIONS
• Joe O’Connor’s Rathass
• Nolan’s, North Circular Road
• O’Shea’s Blennerville
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Some of the winners of the Best Gardens awards at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
GARDENS AWARDS
• Michael Whyte, O’Rahillys Villas
• Sean Hutchinson, Rae Street
• Mary Foley, Knockmoyle
• Helen Leahy, Knockmoyle
• Irene Foley, Knockmoyle
• Mary Daly, Knockmoyle
• Marie O’Regan, Ashgrove
• Tracey Bolger, Ashgrove
• Mr and Mrs O’Shea, Ashgrove
• Bernadette O’Donnell, Ashgrove
• PJ Higgins, Lohercannon
• Marie Sheehan, Lohercannon
• Eileen McCord, Connolly Park
• Helen Lynch, Connolly Park
• Brenda O’Connell, Killeen Heights
• Ina and Teddy Lynch, Killeen Road
• Irene O’Donnell, Oakpark
• Sheila and Denis O’Sullivan, Laurel Court
• Bernadette McMahon, Ash Court
• Denis and Gina Culloty, Ash Court
• George Lynch, Manor Court
• Martin Walsh, Manor Park
• Freda Conroy, Manor Place
• Peter and Anne Coffey, Cloonbeg Terrace
• Eleanor Collins, Castlemaine Bridge
• John O’Sullivan, Killerisk Road
• Brendan Hussey, Rahoonane
• Delip Shett, Deerpark, Manor West
Ashgrove residents Marie Regan, Anne Lynch and Bernadette McDonnell make a presentation to Joe Moynihan for his assistance to their Tidy Towns effort this year, at the Tralee Tidy Towns Awards at The Rose Hotel on Tuesday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
