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Tralee Town Park And The Wetlands Receive Green Flag Awards

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TRALEE Town Park and Tralee Bay Wetlands have received 2021 Green Flag Awards.

The awards were announced by An Taisce Environmental Education, acknowledging Ireland’s best public parks and gardens. Childers Park & Woodlands in Listowel also received the flag award.

The Green Flag awards are available to public town parks, country parks, gardens, cemeteries, nature parks and green spaces from across the whole country.

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Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Johnny Wall stated that; “these awards are due to the work of not only Kerry County Council staff but also the huge efforts of the Tidy Towns Groups and park users in Tralee, including local community groups and volunteers, with the assistance of NEWKD who operate various community employment schemes as well as the local Gardai who regularly patrol the areas.”

“It is great to see Tralee Wetlands receive this accreditation as it is a fantastic facility and visitor attraction. I hope that over the coming years other Kerry towns and villages will also enter this competition.”

Ireland was awarded a total of 103 Green Flag sites, comprised of 84 formal public Green Flag Park sites, along with 19 volunteer run Green Community Sites.

More Green Flag Awards have been secured by Irish parks and gardens than by any country, other than the UK where the scheme originated in 1996.

This year participating countries include: Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Blennerville School’s Green And Active Efforts Paying Off

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Pupils of Blennerville National School.

BLENNERVILLE is celebrating this week after attaining another flag at the school.

The staff and pupils at the school are delighted with the recent news that they have been successful in obtaining their second ‘Greenschool Flag’, this time in the area of Energy Conservation.

There are seven Green Flags that you can obtain so this is a big step forward for the staff, pupils and all associated with the school.

This is not the only bit of good news for the school. They only recently received word that they will also this year be receiving their ‘Digital Schools Award’. This along with the ‘Active Flag’ that they have already achieved means that there’s great cause for celebration.

The school have announced that they will be holding a party in June for the pupils so that they can celebrate the achievements. Well done to all those at Blennerville NS on their fantastic work!

PHOTOS: Presentation Girls Doing Their Bit To Tidy The Town

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Transition Year students from ‘Presentation Secondary School’ with their teacher Mr. Gay Will as they help clean up the local park. Photo by Fergus Dennehy.

STUDENTS from a local school were out and about on Friday doing their own little part in keeping their town tidy.

It was definitely not the weather that the TY students from ‘Presentation Secondary’ school wanted on the day, but they chose to soldier on through the wind and rain armed with gloves, ‘litter pickers’ and rubbish bags.

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They gave one half of the local park a good scrubbing and going over. Evidence of this work can be seen as I arrive at the school, with multiple bags of already collected rubbish sitting near the entrance ready to be taken away.

Their endeavours are all part of the ‘Green Flag’ initiative of which the school has been an active and prominent participant over the last number of years.

“April is ‘National Spring Clean Month’. We’ve got the ‘Green Flag’ for the school and we achieved this by helping the children to become more environmentally aware. There’s a litter and waste programme for the green schools and this [the clean-up] is part of that litter and waste programme,” said teacher and organiser Gay Will.

“We’ve actually got the ‘Green Flag’ already so we’ve got to maintain it. There are seven Green Flags, you can get one every second year. The first one is for litter and waste. Today, the class will be doing the far of the park. It’s amazing what you would pick up. When you look for it [rubbish], it’s there.

The girls were certainly in high spirits as they set off to scour the grass for any more undesirable litter, let’s hope that we can all take a lesson from this and learn to be more litter conscious.

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Transition Year students from ‘Presentation Secondary School’ with their teacher Mr. Will as they help clean up the local park. Photo by Fergus Dennehy.
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Transition Year students Aisling Walsh, Chloe Burke & Clodagh O’ Sullivan take part in ‘National Spring Clean Month’ as part of the ‘Green Flag’ initiative. Photo by Fergus Dennehy.
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Transition Year students take part in ‘National Spring Clean Month’ as part of the ‘Green Flag’ initiative. Photo by Fergus Dennehy.