Pride of Place Awards 2025

Dromiskin Tidy Towns were delighted to be nominated to represent Louth in the annual Pride of Place competition. Three representatives from Dromiskin attended the 2025 awards ceremony in the Strand Hotel, Limerick, on Friday 7 November in an event hosted by Limerick County Council. Master of ceremonies was media personality Dermot Whelan with Limerick Mayor, John Moran, and Pride of a place founder, Tom Dowling, among those in attendance.

Also nominated from Louth was the Boyne Camino group and both nominees were

accompanied by members of Louth County Council - Chief Executive, David Conway, Joanna

Kelly head of services and Finbar Gethins Senior Executive Officer. Sean Kelly, Chairperson

Dundalk Municipal District also attended. Communities from all over the 32 counties were present at an impressive prize giving ceremony. Dromiskin was thrilled to be runner-up in the 1000-2000 population category, pipped by Piltown, Co Kilkenny. The Boyne Camino were also runner-up in the tourism category making it a great night’s work for the Wee county.

Many thanks to all the local groups and organisations who worked together to represent our

community on the national stage. Our appreciation too goes to Louth County Council who

provided assistance throughout the project.

Green Flag

The Green Flag Award scheme aims to encourage the provision of good quality public

parks and green spaces that are managed in environmentally sustainable ways.

The scheme is a non-profit international accreditation program that recognises and

rewards well-managed parks and green spaces. It is managed by the UK environmental

charity Keep Britain Tidy, under license from the UK Government and delivered in

partnership through a network of national operators around the world. In Ireland, An

Taisce is the national operator, and has delivered the Green Flag Award since

2016.

The international Green Flag Award was awarded to 128 Irish Parks, Gardens,

Greenways and Wildlife Sanctuaries, around the country, on Wednesday the 12th

of November 2025, an increase of 8 awards since last year. The awards ceremony

took place at Maynooth University Campus in County Kildare.

Two members of Dromiskin Tidy Towns attended the ceremony and were

delighted when we retained our two Green Flags - one for the Heritage Park and

the other for Ginnety’s Pond Nature Park. We remain the only local community in

the country with two flags.

Click HERE to a access Heritage Park report

Click HERE to access Ginnerty’s Pond Nature Park report

Louth Looking Good Awards 2025

The Fairways Hotel was the venue for the 2025 Louth Looking Good Awards where Tidy

Towns groups and residents associations throughout the county were recognised for

their unrelenting efforts to deliver clean, green and sustainable communities in Louth.

The First Citizen of County Louth, Councillor Sean Kelly, was in attendance to thank

every single volunteer for the huge effort made to present our county to the highest

possible standard. Chief Executive of Louth County Council, David Conway, attending

his first Louth Looking Good Awards, added his fulsome praise to all involved and

reminded attendees of how successfully Louth had performed in the National Tidy

Towns Competition bringing home 8 medals, a regional award and a national award.

The Lead Sponsor of the campaign, Dundalk Credit Union, was represented on the

night by Naomi O Donoghue who stated how proud they were to support an initiative

that shines a light on the people that make a positive impact in our towns and villages.

Thanks was also expressed to Special Awards sponsors Drogheda Credit Union,

Greenore Port, V & W Recycling, Glassco Recycling, O Neills Flowers, FESP as well as

the fourteen County Councillors that generously made donations to the prize fund.

Fresh from their success at the National Tidy Towns Awards in Dublin, Dromiskin Tidy

Towns continued their winning ways being named the Overall Winner of Louth Looking

Good as well as winning the Waste Minimisation Award, the Climate Action Award and

the Youth Award while being named Runner Up in the Biodiversity Award and the

Seasonal Display Special Award. Church View was named Best Overall Housing

Estate another great achievement by Eileen Mulligan and her team.

The coastal village of Blackrock was Runner Up with the judges commenting that the

committee and volunteers have left an indelible mark on the county’s tidy towns

programme and wishing the village the very best of luck as they represent Ireland in

Entente Florale 2026. Team Tallanstown, whose Tidy Towns journey is packed with

achievements at local, national and international level, were placed third while

Monasterboice were awarded the Adjudicators Award as well as winning the

Biodiversity Special Award and Graveyard Category and coming in third in the Climate

Action Award. Omeath TT Chairman, Gus Brennan, was named County Louth Environmentalist of the Year with Mary Mc Donnell from Louth Village the deserved runner up in this prestigious award.

Now that the Awards Season is over for this year it’s back to planning and strategising

for 2026 when collaboration and hard work will ensure that Dromiskin will be Looking

Good!

Click HERE to see the official adjudicator’s report