VIDEO: Model Manor Estate Making Supreme Effort For Entente Florale

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THE residents at Manor Village are no strangers to awards over the years, practically owning the Best Large Estate category in the Tidy Tralee Together competition.

But now they have been set a new task by the Council: to get their estate ready for the Entente Florale competition which will see judges in the Europe-wide contest enter their area on July 31.

Their estate is the only one in town in which the judges will view and it’s a big honour for the residents.

TraleeToday.ie visited the estate on Tuesday and spoke to Joe Moynihan and Jennifer Mackey of the Residents Committee about the effort that has gone into making the area so successful and the preparations for the Entente Florale judges.

See video below (camera and editing by Ryan Higgins)…

 

Walking around the estate it’s clear that it’s an all-estate effort with young and old out in every part of the Village sweeping the paths, cutting hedges and picking up any rubbish.

Six years ago the committee decided to take over a piece of waste ground at the end of the estate and they turned it into a walkway.

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The walkway in Manor Village which the residents transformed from waste ground six years ago. Photo by Dermot Crean

“We decided to develop a walkway around the village six years ago. We put in a composting bed to European standards, we also have bumblebee and butterfly flower beds and we’re very proud of it,” said Joe.

A local girl also decided to do a mural for the Entente Florale judges.

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John O’Sullivan, Tiny Callaghan, Dean Farrell and Brian O’Donoghue doing some work by the mural on the container in the Manor Village walkway on Tuesday. Photo by Dermot Crean

“Jane Carmody, who’s just 16 years old decided to do it on the container here. She designed it and did it all on her own over a few evenings and we left her at it,” said Joe, who gave huge praise to the committee and the residents.

“We’ve the best committee in Ireland I’d say. They never fail to turn up and work, they’re always coming up with ideas. We’re very proud of our estate and you can see that from the amount of people that come out here to help,” said Joe.

With the judging just two weeks away, Tralee can have faith that Manor Village will do us proud.

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Joe Moynihan and Anne McCarthy at one of the flower beds in Manor Village on Tuesday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

Joe Moynihan and Anne McCarthy at one of the flower beds in Manor Village on Tuesday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

Martin Gill at the entrance to the Manor Village Walk on Tuesday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

Martin Gill at the entrance to the Manor Village Walk on Tuesday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

Kerina Bulman and Dan Sexton helping with the clean-up at Manor Village on Tuesday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

Kerina Bulman and Dan Sexton helping with the clean-up at Manor Village on Tuesday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

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The Rose Garden near the Manor Village Walk. Photo by Dermot Crean

 

 

 

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