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Wexford Tidy Towns – Gold Medal 2025

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National Tidy Towns Award Announcements 2025  –  Gold for Wexford!

 

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October 24 2025.

Three of our team travelled to Croke Park today for the announcement of the National Tidy Towns Awards for 2025.

We were overjoyed to hear the announcement that we had once again won Gold! This marks the fifth year in succession for which we have been awarded the Gold Medal. We are so grateful to have such a committed and hard-working team of volunteers, the many local people who keep their own estates clean and attractive, and to the many local businesses who take great care in keeping the areas outside their premises litter free and tidy.

 

Our overall score in the marking system was 393, over 8 Categories. This was just 7 points behind the overall National Winner, Carrick-on-Shannon, to whom we extend our warm congratulations!

 

Our score was 18 points higher than in 2024, and significantly, our points in each of the 8 scoring categories was higher than in 2024, the second year in a row in which this has been achieved. This indicates to us that we are not only maintaining our impact on keeping our Town looking good, but, with everyone’s help, improving on it’s attractiveness each year.

 

 

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This is our 5th Gold Medal, having first achieved Gold in 2021.  We will continue our push for excellence for 2026 and beyond!

Philomena Murphy,

Chairperson, Wexford Tidy Towns

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Wexford Tidy Towns – National Tidy Towns Award Ceremony April 2025

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Co. Wexford County Awards & Medals, Gold Medal & Highly commended – Wexford Tidy Towns Presented by Minister Timmy Dooley & Yvonne O’Brien, SuperValu Community & Sponsorship Assistant Brand Manager to Anne McCann, Ann Fenlon & Phil Murphy

Co. Wexford County Awards & Medals, Gold Medal & Highly commended – Wexford Tidy Towns Presented by Minister Timmy Dooley & Yvonne O’Brien, SuperValu Community & Sponsorship Assistant Brand Manager to Anne McCann, Ann Fenlon & Phil Murphy



On Monday 14th April,2025, three of our committee members attended the SuperValu/TidyTowns awards presentation night where Minister Timmy Dooley presented us with our Gold Medal and Highly Commended Certificate for 2024.

This marks our 4th successive year winning the Gold Medal,  progressing from having previously been awarded Bronze and Silver medals over a number of years.   Significantly, we increased our marks in all 8 categories over the previous year – our aim is to further increase these scores in the 2025 competition!

This is a great testament to the work put in, week after week and in all weathers,  by our fantastic group of volunteers, who continue to litter-pick, plant, paint and keep our town looking at its sparkling best.

 

Philomena Murphy,

Chairperson, Wexford Tidy Towns

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Civic Reception & Mayoral Award for Wexford Tidy Towns Volunteers

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Mayor Garry Laffan with Wexford Tidy Towns chairperson Philomena Murphy at Civic Reception for Wexford Tidy Towns.

 

Wexford’s Mayor, Garry Laffan hosted a Civic Reception on June 20th 2022 to congratulate Wexford Tidy Towns on the award of the Gold Medal in the National Tidy Towns competition 2021, and acknowledge the efforts of volunteers whose tireless work over the years led to this notable achievement.  The Civic Reception was attended by Mayor Laffan, Councillors, Tidy Towns chairperson Philomena Murphy, and Tidy Towns volunteers.

 

Wexford Mayor presents award to Tidy Towns chair Philomena Murphy at the Civic Reception on June 20 2022

Wexford Mayor presents award to Tidy Towns chairperson Philomena Murphy at the Civic Reception on June 20 2022

 

 

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Mayor Garry Laffan, Ann McCann (Wexford in Bloom), Philomena Murphy (Chair, Wexford Tidy Towns) and Mary Bowie (Secretary, Wexford Tidy Towns) at Civic Reception for Wexford Tidy Towns / Wexford in Bloom.

 

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Wexford win Gold Medal in National Tidytowns Competition 2021

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We are over the moon to announce that Wexford Tidy Towns has won a Gold Medal in the 2021 SuperValu National Tidytowns Competition!!!!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the volunteers who gave their time, ideas and friendship to our group, and who turned out in all kinds of weathers throughout the year to attain this fantastic achievement.

 

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Thanks also to Wexford Local Authorities, Staff and Councillors, who have been a huge support over the years, facilitated all of our projects, and funded and carried out improvements to our town’s environment based on requests from our group and recommendations from the Annual Adjudicator’s reports.  Some councillors are regular attendees at our cleanup and other projects.

A big thanks  to the many Wexford Businesses who have helped by keeping their own premises clean and bright,  to those who have participated in our annual Summer Wexford in Bloom project,  and others who have kindly provided tea/coffee and refreshment to our volunteers at the end of  the hard hours of work making our town sparkle.

Not forgetting the many Housing Estates and Community Groups who regularly organize their own cleanups and plantings and keep their areas in top condition.  We provide assistance for these teams with litter-pickers, bags, gloves and organize collection of the rubbish.

This is the first time Wexford have won Gold in the competition, having won Bronze Medals in 2013-2016 and Silver Medals in 2017, 2018, and 2019 ( No competition was held in 2020 ).   Now we begin the push for Gold#2 in 2022!!

Philomena Murphy,

Chairperson, Wexford Tidy Towns

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Wexford in Bloom 2021

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The flowering of the town, both in communal areas and for local businesses committed to flowering their own premises, requires planning by our team from early April, with the ordering of the window boxes, the selection of flowers and plants, and the expertise of the nursery in tending to them to produce an explosion of colour at just the right time to provide the uplifting and dazzling colour transformation of the town in early June.

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Unfortunately, in 2020, the Covid situation meant that, for the first time in 10 years, we were unable to carry out this beautiful transformation. For 2021, however, we made the decision to put the machinery in motion, and all of the flower displays are being implemented on June 1st. Our planting collaboration with the nursery will ensure that there will be a rainbow of colours in the town all the way to September!

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Wexford Tidy Towns – January 2018 to date

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Check out the posts on Wexford Tidy Towns Facebook Page to keep up with all the good things we’ve been getting up to!

June 2019

–  25th June.  We were at Farmleigh House today, as we were shortlisted for the Ireland’s Best Kept Town Awards – an all-island competition which sees the best towns in the TidyTowns competition compete against their counterparts in Northern Ireland’s Best Kept competition.  We were delighted to finish runner-up in the Best Kept Large Urban Centre category.  Congratulations to Bangor, County Down who pipped us to first place in the category, to Bantry Co. Cork who won the overall award, as well as the Best Kept Small Town category, and to all the other category winners and runners-up.

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–  10th June.   Thanks so much to the ten volunteers who did a great job on a Monday evening, weeding, planting and cleaning in 1798 Street and environs.

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– 8th June. Grasscutting and clean-up at the Angel Garden, Ferrybank, before the “Life after Loss” Vigil.


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May 2019

– Flowering the town with Wexford In Bloom:


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October to December 2017 with Wexford Tidy Towns

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Wexford Tidy Towns volunteers continued their trojan efforts to keep Wexford clean and beautiful in the later Autumn and Winter months. Action Days and clean-ups saw lots of tasks tackled included planting around the town in areas such as Kennedy Park and Peters Square and four window boxes at the Wesleyan Church. Volunteers did lots of litter picking, sweeping and painting around the town. Wexford Tidy Towns even had a meeting with Santa in December in his new location on the Quays of Wexford! Check out the photos below to see some of the activities we got up to during these months. We just want to say thank you to all the Wexford Tidy Towns volunteers for helping keeping our beautiful town as litter free as possible.

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Another big achievement for Wexford Tidy Towns group during this time was our trip to Tipperary on 20th November to collect our Silver Award and the Clean Air Award at the SuperValu South East Region Tidy Towns Awards having been awarded these at the National Tidy Town Awards in September. It was great to see all our hard work rewarded and we couldn’t have done it without everyone’s efforts. Have a read of the adjudicators report here.

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Thank you to all those who helped us in any way in 2017 the volunteers who turned up for clean-ups, local residents who cleaned their own areas, businesses who maintained their premises or donated to our efforts, and every individual who cleans up after themselves. Remember to bin your litter and butts, pick up after your dog, report illegal dumping and we always need more Volunteers, so please join us and help us maintain our Silver Award and win Gold for Wexford in the future just get in touch or turn up at one of our clean-ups. Thanks for the continued support from the community and local businesses. Everyone can help keep Wexford clean and beautiful!

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