Municipal District chairman calls for setting up of Tidy Towns group in Carrick-on-Suir town

Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District’s Cathaoirleach has called on community volunteers from Carrick-on-Suir to come together to form a Tidy Towns Committee.

Carrick Cllr David Dunne issued the call as he launched Carrick-on-Suir Lions Club’s Little Green Book at Carrick-on-Suir’s Sean Healy Library on Wednesday, February 22.

The booklet details simple measures people can take in their daily lives to protect the environment and combat climate change, was funded through a Pobal grant for Tidy Towns projects that Carrick-on-Suir Business Association secured.

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The Sinn Féin councillor noted Carrick-on-Suir’s marks in the national Tidy Towns Contest have increased over the last few years and he credited the work done by Carrick Lions Club members for much of that improvement.

He said his appeal was for a little bit more support in the town to set up a proper Tidy Towns Committee like those operating in villages in the town’s hinterland.

Carrick Lions Club President Brian White told the launch he considered Tidy Towns to be the State’s greatest community organisation because of the work its volunteers do on the ground. And he noted that the one thing the town has never had was a strong co-ordinated Tidy Towns group.

Carrick Lions Club’s members, however, will be doing their bit to keep the town spick and span during National Spring Clean Month in April. The club will do a clean up of the Bogfield area in Carrickbeg on April 1

And the club will participate, in partnership with Transition Year students from Carrick’s Edmund Rice Secondary School, in litter picks and biodiversity days on the Suir Blueway on March 23 and April 17