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Tidy Towns Mary Jo Quigley, Bridie O'Sullivan, Gloria O'Connor and Anita Barber at Garveys Car Park.

Tidy Towns Put Finishing Touches To Garvey’s Car Park Project

October 13, 2023 at 12:13 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Tralee Tidy Towns volunteers were out planting again this week – buoyed by their impressive performance in the national Tidy Towns competition. The Greenspaces and Landscaping team put the finishing touches to their Garvey’s Planters Revamp. This was a collaborative project, involving the Kerry County Council Tralee MD team who […]

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Here’s What The Judges Said About Tralee In Their Tidy Towns Report

Here’s What The Judges Said About Tralee In Their Tidy Towns Report

October 6, 2023 at 2:01 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE achieved yet another Tidy Towns Gold Medal this year and it’s all thanks to the fantastic community effort and collaboration between a number of organisations, Maintaining Gold Medal status over the last eleven years has been hard work and great credit is due to volunteers who increased the points […]

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Suleman Kadiri, Eoin O'Connell and David Griffin of JRI America  painting a wall at Killerisk on Thursday.  Photo by Dermot Crean

JRI America Staff Volunteer With Tralee Tidy Towns To Paint Wall At Killerisk

May 19, 2023 at 8:29 am Comments are Disabled

JRI America staff spent some of their corporate volunteering hours to help Tralee Tidy Towns repaint a large wall at Killerisk which had been in need of a  fresh coat of paint. The project was supported by local residents and facilitated by Tralee Chamber Alliance and Kerry County Council. Brendan […]

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L-R: Brendan O'Brien (Chair, Tralee Tidy Towns), Cllr Mikey Sheehy, Niamh O'Sullivan (Tralee MD Manager), Anne-Marie Fuller (Tralee Tidy Towns)

Tralee Nominated For Ireland’s Best Kept Towns Competition

April 11, 2023 at 12:05 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE has been nominated to participate in the Ireland’s Best Kept Towns Competition for 2023. The town, which had another impressive result in this year’s Tidy Towns Competition, is an entrant in the Best Kept Large Urban Centre category. Adjudication will take place during the month of May and the […]

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Here’s The Judges’ Report After Tralee Wins 10th Tidy Towns Gold Medal In A Row

October 29, 2022 at 10:33 am Comments are Disabled

TRALEE won its 10th Tidy Towns Gold Medal in a row yesterday and in doing so upped their points tally on last year. They were awarded 347 points, up nine on 2021’s total of 338 with an increase in almost every category (see table below). Meanwhile, The Spa, Tralee received an […]

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Here’s What The Tidy Towns Judges Said About Tralee’s Entry

Here’s What The Tidy Towns Judges Said About Tralee’s Entry

November 13, 2021 at 9:34 am Comments are Disabled

YESTERDAY it was revealed that Tralee had received 338 points in the Tidy Towns Competition, thus receiving a Gold Medal for the ninth time. The judges, who visited town earlier this year, also issued a full report on the Tralee entry and you can read excerpts of what they had to say […]

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Tralee Wins Gold Medal Again At Tidy Towns Awards

Tralee Wins Gold Medal Again At Tidy Towns Awards

November 12, 2021 at 2:00 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE has once again received the Tidy Towns Gold Medal. While in 2020 the competition took a break, Tralee had previously received gold for eight years in a row, so this year takes up where 2019 left off. Tralee received 338 points, up eight on 2019’s total. Tralee was also […]

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Kerry Tidy Towns Groups Receive Funding As Go-Ahead Given For This Year’s Competition

Kerry Tidy Towns Groups Receive Funding As Go-Ahead Given For This Year’s Competition

May 21, 2021 at 3:59 pm Comments are Disabled

THE annual Tidy Towns contest will go ahead this year, Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys has confirmed today. Tralee Tidy Towns secured its eighth Gold Medal in a row back in 2019 and will hope another supreme effort will be made by volunteers to retain its status. […]

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Kerry Tidy Towns Groups Encouraged To Apply For Share Of €1m Fund

Kerry Tidy Towns Groups Encouraged To Apply For Share Of €1m Fund

March 7, 2021 at 11:09 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY community groups are reminded to apply for their share of a €1 million Tidy Towns top-up fund. Last December €1 million in Government funding was made available to support Tidy Towns groups across the country, with €1,000 available to every eligible group. The closing date has been extended until […]

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Public Asked To Give Half An Hour At ‘Day Of Cleaning’ This Saturday

Public Asked To Give Half An Hour At ‘Day Of Cleaning’ This Saturday

January 17, 2020 at 9:42 am Comments are Disabled

A ‘DAY Of cleaning’ is planned for this Saturday in The Square to welcome the Chinese New Year festival in a clean environment. The public is invited to volunteer and and join volunteers from Glan Tralee, Team Bramble, Tralee Tidy Towns, Kerry Sustainable Energy Co-op, Tidy Tralee Together, Kerry County Council, […]

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Colaiste Gleann Li students at the Neat Streets conference in The Rose Hotel on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Students Give Input On How To Make Tralee A Cleaner, Greener Town

January 15, 2020 at 4:33 pm Comments are Disabled

STUDENTS from all Tralee’s secondary schools were represented at a Neat Streets schools conference ‘The Tralee Town Takeover’ at The Rose Hotel on Wednesday. An Taisce’s Neat Streets programme aims to inspire young people to take environmental action in their town. The Tralee event, which was supported by Kerry County […]

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Tralee Tidy Towns Receives €4,000 In Funding

Tralee Tidy Towns Receives €4,000 In Funding

October 2, 2019 at 2:20 pm Comments are Disabled

FUNDING totalling €55,000 has been granted for 42 Tidy Towns groups in the county. It was announced recently by Minister for Rural and Community Development, Michael Ring TD. Tralee Tidy Towns will receive the largest allocation of €4,000, with Killarney getting €3,000, and €2,000 allocated to Dingle, Listowel Ballybunion, Abbeydorney, […]

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Here’s What The Tidy Towns Judges Had To Say About Tralee In Their Report

Here’s What The Tidy Towns Judges Had To Say About Tralee In Their Report

October 1, 2019 at 12:51 pm Comments are Disabled

SO Tralee increased its mark in the Tidy Towns competition, rising by eight to 331 this year. The hard work of the voluntary groups was rewarded with an eighth gold medal in a row and great credit is due to all involved. But what exactly did the judges like and […]

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Tralee Retains Tidy Towns Gold Medal

Tralee Retains Tidy Towns Gold Medal

September 30, 2019 at 12:58 pm 1 comment

TRALEE has once again retained its Tidy Towns Gold Medal for the eighth year in a row. It received 331 points, up eight on last year’s total. Kenmare, Killarney and Listowel also retained their Gold status at the Tidy Towns competition awards at the Helix in Dublin today. Bronze medal […]

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Kilmoyley To Host ‘Love Our Waters Weekend’

Kilmoyley To Host ‘Love Our Waters Weekend’

August 16, 2019 at 1:40 pm Comments are Disabled

WHILE Tralee is the place to be for the Rose of Tralee Festival next weekend, a village not far from town are hosting their own event. Tidy Towns Kilmoyley will host a ‘Love Our Waters Weekend’ in conjunction with the Local Authority Waters Programme as part of National Heritage Week […]

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Tralee Town, Co Kerry, Tidy Towns Volunteers, Cathaoirleach Cllr Graham Spring, Gillian Wharton, Cllr Sam Locke, Jim Garvey, SuperValu, Winners of the Tidy Towns Gold Medal Award 2018, which was presented by Cllr Mike Kennelly and Dolores Farrell, SuperValu Community and Sponsorship Brand Manager, at the Listowel Arms Hotel, County Kerry. The Competition now in its 60th year had a record 883 towns and villages entered. The Awards are hosted by the Department of Rural and Community Affairs, sponsored by SuperValu and supported by Fáilte Ireland.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan/FREE PIC

PHOTOS: Tidy Towns Awards Presented To Kerry Winners At Ceremony In Listowel

November 26, 2018 at 12:18 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE Tidy Towns was honoured for receiving the gold medal in competition at a Fáilte Ireland ceremony in the Listowel Arms Hotel at the weekend. They were joined by representatives from towns and villages all over the county and west Limerick at the event which honoured the efforts made by […]

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Tidy Towns Groups In Kerry To Share €55,000 In Grant Scheme

October 5, 2018 at 9:39 am Comments are Disabled

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. […]

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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

PHOTOS: Tralee Tidy Towns Award Winners Honoured At The Rose Hotel

September 26, 2018 at 3:24 pm Comments are Disabled

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, […]

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Here’s What The Tidy Towns Judges Said About Tralee

Here’s What The Tidy Towns Judges Said About Tralee

September 24, 2018 at 4:22 pm 1 comment

TRALEE retained its Tidy Towns Gold Medal status today at the Tidy Towns Awards in Dublin and the report from the judges has just been released. Tralee increased its mark from 314 last year to 323 this year, so the town is going in the right direction. The report makes […]

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Tralee Retains Its Tidy Towns Gold Medal

Tralee Retains Its Tidy Towns Gold Medal

September 24, 2018 at 1:28 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE has retained its Gold Medal for the seventh year in a row, while Listowel was named Ireland’s Tidiest Town for the first time. Listowel also won Ireland’s Tidiest Small Town. The awards ceremony is taking place this afternoon in Dublin. The Gold Medal is the seventh in a row for […]

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Byron Mulvihill of CBS The Green with his painting of Edward Denny. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: RTE Films Students As They Explore Tralee’s History Through Art Project

April 26, 2018 at 11:33 am Comments are Disabled

THE RTE cameras were in town yesterday as students from three secondary schools spoke to the ‘Nationwide’ programme about a wonderful art project which will see their paintings displayed all over Tralee. Students from Presentation, CBS and Mercy Mounthawk were in Denny Lane to display some of the works which […]

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Tralee Retains Its Tidy Towns Gold Medal And Is Also Awarded Purple Flag

Tralee Retains Its Tidy Towns Gold Medal And Is Also Awarded Purple Flag

September 25, 2017 at 1:02 pm Comments are Disabled

THERE was good news on the double this afternoon when it was announced that Tralee had retained its Gold Medal in the Tralee Tidy Towns competition and has also has been awarded Purple Flag status. The Gold Medal is the sixth in a row for Tralee and is testament to […]

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Tidy Towns’ Fantastic Five Golds Celebrated At Garvey’s

Tidy Towns’ Fantastic Five Golds Celebrated At Garvey’s

November 12, 2016 at 3:11 pm Comments are Disabled

A SPECIAL ceremony was held on Friday morning to thank everyone who helped Tralee get its fifth Tidy Towns Gold Medal in a row. Chairman of Tralee Tidy Towns Sam Locke was joined in Garvey’s Supervalu, the sponsor of the competition, by Tidy Tralee volunteers, Kerry County Council workers and […]

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Groups Come Together To Celebrate Tidy Towns Gold Medal Win

Groups Come Together To Celebrate Tidy Towns Gold Medal Win

September 27, 2016 at 4:06 pm Comments are Disabled

AS dust began to settle on the Tralee winning five-in-row Tidy Town gold medals, community groups and council members were in jubilant spirits on Tuesday afternoon as they gathered for a photo. “We are very proud,” said Frank Hartnett of Kerry County Council at the Clashlehane Roundabout at the entrance to town. […]

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Bars Pick Up Tidy Towns Business Awards

Bars Pick Up Tidy Towns Business Awards

August 7, 2016 at 11:59 am Comments are Disabled

THE Tralee Tidy Towns Business Award winners for May, June and July were announced recently. Francis Galvin of Slieve Mish Bar accepted the award for May while Baily’s Corner won the July award which was accepted by Conor O’Donnell at the recent Tralee Chamber Alliance Business Breakfast at Kirby’s Brogue Inn […]

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Call Goes Out For More Volunteers To Help Retain Tidy Towns Gold

Call Goes Out For More Volunteers To Help Retain Tidy Towns Gold

June 16, 2016 at 2:19 pm Comments are Disabled

IT’S that time of the year when the Tidy Towns judges make their way around the towns and villages of the country. Tralee is looking good, but more needs to be done if it is to retain the Gold Medal this year according to the local Tidy Towns committee. More […]

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Winners Of Tralee Tidy Towns Business Awards For March And April Announced

Winners Of Tralee Tidy Towns Business Awards For March And April Announced

April 28, 2016 at 1:08 pm Comments are Disabled

THE winners of the March and April Tralee Tidy Towns Business awards were announced at the Tralee Chamber Alliance AGM at the Grand Hotel on Monday evening. The judges were impressed by Borg Warner, Monavalley Industrial Estate, and H Factor, John Joe Sheehy Road, Tralee who both won framed paintings by renowned […]

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Tidy Towns Business Awards Announced For January And February

Tidy Towns Business Awards Announced For January And February

February 11, 2016 at 2:34 pm Comments are Disabled

TWO Tralee business received Tidy Towns business awards at a Tralee Chamber Alliance event on Thursday morning. The new Tidy Towns Monthly Business Awards scheme was launched last month by Tralee Chamber Alliance in association with Tralee Tidy Towns Group to help get Tralee into the best possible shape for success in this […]

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Tralee Receives Tidy Towns Award At Ceremony In Listowel

Tralee Receives Tidy Towns Award At Ceremony In Listowel

January 18, 2016 at 11:18 am Comments are Disabled

THE awards for SuperValu TidyTowns winners in the South West and Mid-West region for 2015 were presented on Friday at a prize-giving ceremony in the Listowel Arms, Listowel. SuperValu TidyTowns winners, including Tralee, were presented with their awards by Jimmy Deenihan T.D., Minister for Disapora Affairs, and Grace O’Dwyer, Community and Sponsorship Manager […]

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What The Tidy Towns Judges Said About Our Town In Their Report

What The Tidy Towns Judges Said About Our Town In Their Report

September 29, 2015 at 11:19 am Comments are Disabled

TRALEE has once again kept its Gold Medal status in the National Tidy Towns competition, but what had the judges to say about the town in their report. Here’s just a few extracts, but if you want to read the full report on Tralee or other Kerry towns and villages, click here. […]

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