Buncrana Tidy Towns cleaned up in the SuperValu Tidy Towns awards today – winning a Gold award and the county prize for the third year in a row!
Over 600 TidyTowns volunteers were present at the SuperValu TidyTowns awards ceremony at Croke Park in Dublin with the event live-streamed to many more online.
Buncrana scored 383 points from the Tidy Towns judges and also picked up a highly commended certificate for the Local Authority Pollinator Award.
There was just one point between Buncrana and Donegal’s second place prizewinning town of Letterkenny, which also won a Gold Medal. County third went to Carrigart.
Letterkenny’s overall score has grown by 13 points to 381.
Silver medals were won by Raphoe and Moville this year. Bronze medals went to Malin, Glenties, and Carraig Airt.
Donegal Town won the Endeavour Award – a prize awarded to the entrant in each county that made the biggest percentage improvement on the previous year’s score.
The national title of Ireland’s Tidiest Town this year went to Ballincollig, Co. Cork.
The Buncrana Tidy Towns team, celebrating their achievement today, said: “It feels amazing to represent our fantastic community and citizens and bring home the gold. Thank you to everyone who helped, donated, championed and supported us throughout the year, we couldn’t have done it without you.
“Well done and super congratulations to overall winners Ballincollig Tidy Towns, also regional winners Westport Tidy Towns.
“Also, well done to Letterkenny Tidy Towns and all the other gold medal winners. Onwards and upwards, the future is bright.”
