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MEMBERS of Tralee Tidy Towns, Tralee Lions Club, Team Bramble and volunteers gathered for a County Clean-Up event on Tuesday evening. They gathered at the Lidl Car Park on the Castlemaine Road where gloves, high viz vests, litter pickers and bags were provided before they set off cleaning the approach […]

IT might have been one of the wettest periods on record but it has been a great tree-planting season for Tralee Tidy Towns and they were delighted to partner up with the young energetic interns from JRI America to get the last of the native trees in the ground last […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is inviting volunteers to join them for their County Clean-Up event next Tuesday evening. With many County Clean-Up events around the county postponed this weekend due to Storm Kathleen, the local group is holding their clean-up on April 9 at 6pm gathering at the Lidl Car Park. […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns – with support from MTU Business students,  Transition Kerry, Kerry County Council and Irish Wildlife Trust (Kerry branch) are inviting the public to feed in to the Community Biodiversity Action Plan (CBAP) for the Tralee to Fenit Greenway by completing a short five-minute survey. The survey follows, […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is still celebrating its success in the national competition — the results of which were released last Friday — but are calling for more people to get involved. All involved in the Tralee Tidy Towns effort were delighted to retain the gold medal for the town in […]

TRALEE won its 11th Tidy Towns Gold Medal in a row today and in doing so upped their points tally significantly on last year. They were awarded 366 points, up an impressive nineteen points on 2022’s total of 347.  It was the fourth highest mark of all towns and villages […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns, with support from Transition Kerry, Kerry County Council and Irish Wildlife Trust (Kerry branch), will hold a community collaboration event at The Rose Hotel next Monday from 7:30-8:30pm. The aim is to work towards the creation of a Community Biodiversity Action Plan for the Tralee-Fenit Greenway. The organisers […]

Cara Credit Union was there to lend a helping hand to  a Tralee Tidy Towns Project by bringing a team of staff members out on a tidy towns work event on Tuesday. Twenty staff members from the Ashe St office, led by Pa Laide, CEO, arrived down to the car […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns are hosting a Pop Up Repair Café this Saturday from 10am to 4pm in Maddens of Milk Market Lane to help people mend or refresh belongings to extend their lifespan. It can often seem easier to throw away a damaged item than attempt to repair it. Sometimes, even […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is hosting a free ‘Reducing your Food Waste and Composting’ workshop on this Tuesday, July 11 from 7pm to 9pm in the Moyderwell allotments on Dean’s Lane. The workshop will cover tips and suggestions for how to limit your food waste in your home and how to make […]

EVERYONE involved in the Tralee Tidy Towns effort were delighted to see Tralee named among the best kept towns on the island of Ireland and attended the awards event in Farmleigh House on Tuesday. Tralee was up against stiff competition, in the same category as Antrim, Derry City and Limerick […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns will be out again in force this year for the annual County Clean Up which is supported by KWD and Kerry County Council. Volunteers are invited to join the main Saturday clean up at 9am at McDonald’s car park on this Saturday, April 15, where Tralee Tidy […]

FIFTEEN staff members from JRI America gave a half day to a good cause last Friday and partnered with Tralee Tidy Towns to plant 300 native Hawthorn trees with the permission and support of Kerry County Council at Clash. The event, which was organised to celebrate National Tree Week, with […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns collaborated with Mercy Mounthawk students’ council  and Team Bramble last Tuesday to plant hawthorns. Brendan O’Brien, Chair of Tralee Tidy Towns said: Tralee Tidy Towns was delighted to spend some of the funding from Tralee MD councillors on native Hawthorns. They planted 150 of them to add […]

WITH the judging for the Tidy Towns underway, it’s hugely beneficial that one of the most ambitious projects Tralee Tidy Towns has ever undertaken is ready in time for the adjudicators. The Creative Ireland-funded Street Art Project consists of three large murals and four utility box murals in locations around the […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is now looking for volunteers who want to show some pride in their town to step up and help out over the next two months as June 11th marked the beginning of the official adjudication period for the National Tidy Towns competition. The local effort is back […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns welcomed students from the Gaelcholáiste Chíarraí last Friday to plant 78 native Hawthorn trees on Bracker O’Regan Road. This builds on the trees already planted by Kerry Group staff last month. Anne Marie Fuller of Tralee Tidy Towns said: “Tralee Tidy Towns is delighted to work with the students […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is holding its annual general meeting this Thursday and they are welcoming new members. It comes in the wake of Tralee being awarded their ninth Gold Medal in a row last week. Joe Moynihan of the Tralee Tidy Towns committee said: “We are thrilled to retain our […]

THE Bracker O’Regan Road was a hive of activity last Friday as Tralee Tidy Towns volunteers and 23 staff from Kerry Group headquarters in Tralee came together to plant 236 native Hawthorn trees. Martha Farrell (Tralee Tidy Towns) said: “We were delighted to get this incredible number of trees planted. […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns has announced a series of free webinars on sustainability and biodiversity, highlighting the UN Sustainability Goals, taking place over the next month. The sustainability webinars, which will be delivered by Donal O’Leary of Waste Down will focus on the EPA Stop Food Waste programme and composting, are […]

CARA Credit Union have teamed up with the Tralee Tidy Towns committee to lend support to the fantastic work done by the local group. Pa Laide, CEO of Cara Credit Union, said; ““Every day we see ordinary  people going to extraordinary lengths to make our communities better places to live. […]

THE deadline for artists to apply to paint murals around the town has been extended. Last month, it was revealed funding had been secured for Tralee Tidy Towns through Creative Ireland for artists to paint murals in strategic locations around Tralee town centre. A call out was issued to artists […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is continuing to appeal to the people of Tralee to take part in a new survey (see link below) as part of a drive to get more people involved. The Tidy Towns competition has evolved considerably in recent years with marks awarded for streetscaping, landscaping,  biodiversity, sustainability, […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns is asking the people of Tralee to take part in a new survey (see link below) as part of a drive to get more people involved. The Tidy Towns competition has evolved considerably in recent years with marks awarded for streetscaping, landscaping,  biodiversity, sustainability, tidiness, approach roads […]

THE winners of the Tidy Tralee Together 2019 competition have been revealed. There were winners in the estates, businesses and gardens categories and the efforts made by entrants were exceptional. “The standard was higher than ever and we never had as many entries,” said Joe Moynihan of Tralee Tidy Towns, […]

AN allocation of €55,000 has been announced for 42 Tidy Towns committees in Kerry and Tralee will benefit to the tune of €4,000. The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Michael Ring, has announced a €1.4 million national grant scheme to mark the 60th anniversary of the Tidy Towns Competition. […]

THE winners of the Tralee Tidy Towns 2018 competition have been revealed. In the Large Estates category, Manor Village came out on top, retaining their title. Ashgrove, Ballyvelly won the Medium Estates category while Quarryvale in Mounthawk won the Small Estates category. There were also a number of businesses in […]

IF there’s any man who doesn’t know the meaning of retirement it’s Joe Moynihan. The Manor Village resident has been the driving force behind so many projects, from the Tidy Towns to being supervisor with the Ballymac Community Employment Scheme. Friday though saw him retire as supervisor of the CE […]

TRALEE retained its Gold Medal at the Tidy Towns Awards on Monday increasing its mark by two points. The judges report (detailed in full below) outlines where the town excelled and where it can improve calling Tralee a “very handsome town”. The Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Norma Foley, said it’s […]

CHAIRPERSON of Tidy Towns Tralee, Sam Locke, accepted a van on behalf of Tidy Towns Tralee, courtesy of Garvey’s Supervalu and Randles Bros, this morning. Sam Locke said the gesture is greatly appreciated by Tralee Tidy Towns, and will be used to maintain their Gold Medal status. The previous van, which […]