Volunteers give Offaly town a 'Spring Clean'

Spring Clean Tullamore took place recently with many people from across the community taking part in litter picks on the streets, estates, approach roads and along the canal.

It was great to see the residents' associations and estate teams working away on litter picking, sweeping and planting as Tullamore Tidy Towns prepares for another successful year in making Tullamore look as good as possible.

Special thanks to the Offaly Branch of the Inland Waterways and Tullamore Canoe Club for their clean-up on the canal.

Many thanks to the businesses who got behind the initiative and took on the clean-up challenge around their premises and offered some of their staff time to take help out.

Also thanks to those who couldn't help out but contacted us to let us know they would be out in the coming days and weeks ahead.

A group from Scoil Mhuire performed a litter pick in their area and schools are urged to continue litter picks over the coming months.

“The support from the community is stronger than ever, as Tullamore aims for another gold medal in 2022,” commented Shane Murray, Chairman of Tullamore Tidy Towns.

“We are not too far away from winning on a national level and Team Tullamore with the support of Offaly County Council, Tullamore Chamber of Commerce and Waterways Ireland, we can take the top spot if we all pull together.”

The groups are looking forward to their next official get together on Wednesday, May 10 at 7pm meeting up at Kilbride Plaza and will continue each Wednesday in the months ahead.

Many people, groups and businesses will plan their own time and organisers would ask you to share photos and videos of your projects on social media and email in any details to Tullamore Tidy Towns.

Join in, have fun and meet some new people. More details on  https://www.tullamoretidytowns.ie