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Athlone’s Tidy Towns committee needs greater buy-in from the business community if it is to keep the town looking its best.

Community groups in Westport have one last opportunity to apply for funding under the amenity grants scheme operated by Westport Town Council.

Westport continued its success at the National Tidy Towns competition, the winners of which were announced on Monday at an awards ceremony in Dublin.

Westport Train Station was this week awarded the accolade of best in Ireland as voted by its passengers and tourists.

Fáilte Ireland’s method of selecting the top towns and villages for the 2013 Tourism Towns Awards has been described as “lazy” by County Mayor Tom Welby as the criteria for entering does allow inclusion of hugely popular tourist towns such as Clifden, Oughterard, Spiddal, and others.

Mullingar Tidy Towns committee is holding its first public clean-up morning of the summer on Saturday. Members of the public are asked to gather at the Market Square tomorrow morning, May 18, at 10am.

The Galway City Tidy Towns group is calling for volunteers this Saturday to help remove fly posters and graffiti, weeding, and picking up of litter.

Westport made national headlines again last Friday at Fáilte Ireland’s inaugural Tourism Towns Award presentation in The Gibson Hotel, Dublin. The town was shortlisted with nine others for the final adjudication which was held in October – the other towns in the final shake down were Ballyvaughan, Clonakilty, Dundalk, Ennis, Kilkenny, Killarney, Letterkenny, Trim, and Portmagee, which won the overall title.

Kilmaine village enhancement will host an information session on the National Tidy Towns adjudication process on Sunday November 4, in Kilmaine Community Centre.

Retail Excellence Ireland (REI), Ireland’s largest retail industry body, has announced that Westport is Ireland’s best town. Kilkenny was nominated as Ireland’s best city. This is the third time in only a few months that Westport has won a national award after receiving its first award from the Irish Times. On that occasion the coastal town was crowned the Best Place to Live in Ireland and the second was the coveted Tidiest Large Town in Ireland award.