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Not content with a fourth place finish in this year’s Tidy Towns competition, Kilkenny Borough Council has vowed to pull out all the stops to secure the coveted top spot next year.

Nessa Childers MEP hosted a County Kilkenny Tidy Towns’ delegation to the European Parliament in Brussels. The group travelled on Thursday October 6 and attended a briefing in the Parliament on Friday October 7.

The pretty village of Ballinahown has once again topped the Tidy Towns list in Westmeath for the seventh year in a row.

The Ballinrobe Tidy Towns committee would like to thank all those who supported their efforts which have been rewarded in the form of a 21-point increase in their score in this year’s Tidy Towns Competition; 226 points up from 205 last year.

Minister for State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has congratulated Pamela Flanagan, chairperson of the Westport Tidy Towns Committee, and the committee itself, on the wonderful results for Westport in the Tidy Towns competition 2011. Westport just lost out to Killarney on being overall winner by one point.

Galway’s good showing in the Tidy Towns competition, which found the city “very well presented and spotlessly clean”, is a positive start and something to build on.

Volunteers across the city and county are celebrating this week following news that Kilkenny has been named Ireland's Tidiest Large Urban Centre following the publication of the results of the annual Tiday Towns Competition this week.

Kilkenny was so close to scooping the top prize in last year’s Tidy Towns Competition that director of service at Kilkenny Borough Council John Mulholland has put out a plea to business owners and the general public to clean up their areas this month in a bid to grab the last all important points which would lead to the big win.

Mullingar Tidy Town Committee submitted the town’s application for the national Tidy Towns competition this week. Pictured are Michael Donnellan, Marguerite Buckley and Brian Reidy (all Mullingar Tidy Towns committee) finalising the application form.

The Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring, will officially open the Westport Greenway Park today (Friday April 15) at 3pm.