Co-ordinated by Millstreet Tidy Town and Tourism Association Dr. Mary Stack, Environement Awareness Officer Cork Co. Council, will present a talk on Environment and Waste at Millstreet GAA Community Hall on Wednesday, 30th November at 8.00 p.m. sharp. All invited.
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Members of Millstreet Tidy Towns Association receiving their presigious Litter Challenge Award 2011 in County Hall, Cork on Thursday, 8th Sept. 2011. From left: Pauline Lyons, Patsy Corcoran, Noreen Dennehy, Pat Randles, Official Presenter, Colman Culhane with Rebecca Enright & James Kelleher of Millstreet Macra na Feirme. We thank Noreen Dennehy for providing us with the picture.
Together with many representatives from various Co. Cork communities, Millstreet Tidy Towns Association were thrilled to be among the winners in their category in the Litter Challenge Competition 2011. Here we share images from continue reading…
Millstreet has just been awarded €1,750.00 for having come First in CategoryB1 of the Cork Co. Anti-Litter Competition. Members of Millstreet Tidy Towns Association are in Cork Co. Hall tonight receiving the prestigious award. What wonderfully uplifting encouragement for the superbly dedicated Association. All this on a week when Millstreet has shone so brightly in the National Tidy Towns Awards winning a Bronze Medal. Sincere and heartfelt congratulations to all involved. (S.R.)
Noreen Dennehy, as one of the principal co-ordinators in Millstreet Tidy Towns Association, is presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers at the Wallis Arms Hotel tonight (5th Sept.) on the occasion of a celebratory function when members of the dedicated Association marked the fact they wished to acknowledge the help accorded on the many Thursday night clean-up projects. And purely coincidentally, Millstreet was awarded not only a national bronze medal in category D but also a number of financial awards announced earlier today in Dublin at the National Tidy Towns Awards 2011 ceremony. Noreen in her address very especially expressed sincere thanks to Millstreet Macra na Feirme for their much appreciated help over the past number of months. With a hugely impressive mark of 291 Millstreet is only 19 marks behind Ireland's 2011 Tidiest Town, Killarney. Congratulations to both Killarney and Millstreet. Tonight's get together involved a group who assembled and worked together every Thursday night for the clean-up project over the past season. The overall Millstreet Tidy Towns Association will celebrate today's national award at a later point. (S.R.)
News today that Millstreet have again done well in the National tidy Towns Competition. We have improved our score by another 4 points from 287 to 291, and in the process won a National Bronze Medal for Category D (population of 2,500 to 5,000), come in second (and highly commended) in Cork North behind the village of Coolagown, and won the Category D section for North Cork.
On concluding the report, the adjudicator had this to say:
Millstreet is a vibrant, exciting town to visit and it has used its history and topography to excellent effect. Few towns have the advantage of such pleasant walks so readily to hand. Well done to all involved in this delightful presentation.
Well done and a big thank you to everyone involved the local Tidy Towns in any shape or form towards trying to make Millstreet a nicer place to live.
- Millstreet’s Adjudication Report for 2011 has been added below, [or the original document can be viewed on tidytowns.ie ]
- The full national result book can also be viewed on tidytowns.ie ( large 4Mb document )
Killarney has won the overall award today in this year’s Tidy Towns Competition. And we’ve just heard from Dublin that Millstreet has won a medal and a financial award in one of the national award categories also. More about this uplifting news later when it comes to hand. Sincere congratulations to Millstreet Tidy Towns Association on this very encouraging recognition of their inspiring dedication in constantly helping to make Millstreet look more and more beautiful. (S.R.)
Millstreet is looking good!
Sincere thanks to all those who are helping us to gain points in this year’s Tidy Towns competition….
by cleaning, painting and maintaining your home, shops etc.;
by displaying window boxes, hanging baskets and by planting flowers;
by not dropping litter and cigarette butts on our streets.
Now we ask you to go one step further – by cleaning/brushing outside your home, apartment or business premises each day.
We are aiming to win our category this year.
It can happen with your help.
Show your pride …. Keep Millstreet clean!
Mary O'Connor of Minor Row admires the very impressive window display at Justice's in Main Street. The window shows a selection of the many prestigious awards won by Millstreet Tidy Towns Association over the years. The perfect window setting has become famous when Justice's Bakery used to place the most delicious confectionary and bread on both windows. Gladly we still note that Geraldine still displays the wonderful "Hot Cross" buns at Lent and Easter annually. (S.R.)
Results from the second week of the Cork County Council Anti Litter Challenge. Just one week of judging to go:
CATEGORY B1
COMMUNITYWEEK 1WEEK 2TOTAL
Millstreet90 89 179
Macroom84 92 176
Bantry88 88 176 continue reading…
Enthusiastic members of Millstreet Tidy Towns Association with equally dedicated members of Millstreet Macra na Feirme at work in Drishane Road on Thursday, 30th June 2011.
Best Frontage Competition
Paddy & Helen Sheahan, Margaret Smyth, Reen’s Pharmacy and Clara Inn – all did our town proud in last year’s Best Frontage Competition – along with several others in Minor Row, Woodlands Drive, Murphy’s Terrace, Station Road and Killarney Road.
This year Clara Inn and Murphy’s Terrace are setting the pace so far.
Will your Frontage catch up and possibly overtake?!
The poor weather has been a factor in this year’s slow start.
But don’t give up!
Millstreet needs you.
Judging has now commenced.
The first set of results (26th May – 8th June) from the Cork Inter-Town Litter Challenge 2011 have come to Millstreet Tidy Town Committee. Millstreet scored a very good 90 points, and lie in second position behind Charleville (92 points), and ahead of Blarney, Bantry, Bandon, Kinsale, Macroom, and Ballincollig. The challenge is ongoing and judging will finish on July 7th, so please get out and pick up any bits of rubbish you see lying around if we are to come out on top this year. A summary of the initial results are given below, with the full scorecard at the bottom of this article:
| Description of Area | From | To | No. of Pieces of Litter (10 butts = 1 piece) | Marks (max 10) |
| Town Centre | Carton House Chinese Restaurant | McCarthy Bar | 4.6 | 9 |
| Town Centre | Mlulchys Pharmacy | Millwheel Take away | 7.9 | 9 |
| Town Centre | Garda Station | Reens Pharmacy | 9.7 | 9 |
| Town Center | Razor Sharp Barbers | Cream House | 1.8 | 9 |
| Town Centre | Corkery Bar | Door of John Moyhihans Rallying | 6.4 | 9 |
| Town Centre | Nibbles Restaurant | Tarrants- The Bridge Bar | 3.1 | 9 |
| Residential Area | Murphys Terrence, House #1 | Pier of House no 7 | 0 | 10 |
| Residential Area | House No 1 of Old Coach Drive ( Down from Murphys | Start of wall of House No 7 | 3 | 9 |
| Service/School | Esso Centra- Entrance from the Town | Raiding where tractors are parked | 13.3 | 8 |
| Green Glens Area | Picnic Area at the start of the town – Seat before the | Tree | 4 | 9 |
| Total: | 90 |
Dedicated Millstreet Tidy Towns Association Volunteers on an impressive painting project at Drishane Road on Thursday, 5th May 2011.
Many visitors to Millstreet remark on how well our town and its environs look. Millstreet Tidy Towns Association must take much of the credit for these uplifting visitor comments when one considers the Trojan work consistently carried out by truly dedicated members. But they need lots more Volunteers to continue such continue reading…
Helen O'Sullivan (with book) of IRD Duhallow was at the Wallis Arms Hotel, Millstreet on Wednesday, 17th Nov. 2010 where she gave a very interesting and most informative presentation to a representative audience from the overall Millstreet area on the regulations governing the availability of grants from IRD Duhallow funding. The audience (some of whom are pictured here) were able to explore a whole range of relevant questions following Helen's very useful talk to which concrete answers were given. (Seán)
Pictured in the Canon O'Donovan Centre tonight at the Annual General Meeting of Drishane Region Project Ltd. supported by FÁS - Seated (from left): Sharon Lane (Acting Secretary & G.A.A.), Gordon O'Keeffe (Chairman & Tidy Town Association), Pat Breen (Treasurer & Millstreet Pitch & Putt). Back row (from left): Gerry McGrath (FÁS Senior Development Officer), Denis Hickey (FÁS Supervisor, Millstreet), Cllr. Noel Buckley (Millstreet Community Council), Jerry Lehane (Millstreet Town Park Committee) and Sheila Murphy (representing Mary Feeley, Canon O'Donovan Centre Projects). Behind the camera - Seán Radley (Millstreet Museum/Tourist Information Centre).
Last night (Wednesday 29th September) we had our prize giving for the annual best frontage in Millstreet. The prizes were presented by our chairman Mr. John O’Keeffe, Margaret Moynihan and Kathleen Crowley. The prize winners were:
- in the Commercial Category – Reen’s Pharmacy, Main Street, and
- in the Residential Category: Mrs. Mgt Smith Murphy’s Terrace.
The following were highly commended: Noel & Eileen Collins, Clara road; Paddy & Helen Sheehan, Murphy’s tce; Joan Wall, Station Road, Mary Murray O’Callaghan, Woodlawn Drive.
with thanks to Millstreet Tidy Towns for the above article
The results of the Tidy Towns are out today, with the overall winners being Tallanstown from County Louth. Millstreet got 287 points (up 3 from last year) and are winners of North Cork Category C, and finished second across all of North Cork behind the village of Coolagown (which is on the border with Waterford)
CATEGORY C: Millstreet 287, Newmarket 259, Kanturk 221, Rathcormac 210
Read the full report below, or on tidytowns.ie
Read the overall scores for all competing towns in Ireland
Visit the Millstreet Tidy Towns website, and get involved!
Marking the 10th anniversary of the Millstreet Eurovision a very impressive Street Display Unit was put in place at West End, Millstreet in 2003. Lots of Eurovision memories will be evoked on this forthcoming Thursday and Friday when a prestigious Australian Television Crew will be filming in the area. Winner of Eurovision 1993, Niamh Kavanagh, will visit Millstreet on Friday, 10th September to participate in this highly significant Documentary which deals with the History of Europe from the First Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 and onwards to 2010. (Seán)
(Seán Radley for www.millstreet.ie )
Millstreet Tidy Towns members relaxing at work
THE enthusiastic Millstreet Tidy Town Association delved into an analysis of its 2009 submission that earned a rewarding nine mark increase in the national competition. Jumping from 275 to 284 points it follows a 53 mark increase over the previous six years.
The positive reaction from the Tidy Towns adjudicator together with a number of exciting developments in the pipeline augurs well for the future. Some eighty five towns and villages entered the tidy towns within County Cork, Millstreet maintaining its high ranking position.
The positive feedback from the Adjudicator gives a dedicated Millstreet Tidy Towns Association the impetus to continue with a series of projects to enhance the town’s image…
The article can be read in the Millstreet Matters column on the Corkman newspaper this week which also contains other news from Millstreet
The Full Adjudicators Report can be read below
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