See on the Midland Tribune this week that Tullamore had a celebration to mark the arrival of the Railway 150 years, the Distillery 175 years, and the Grand Canal 200 years ago. A number of people dressed in medieval costume including Catrioa Hilliard - a daughter of Oliver and Margaret Hilliard.Find more under unison webpage.
The national school at Clonmacnois won The Green Flag in a recent competition based on their work for the environment that involved field trips, a clean up day and cleaning out the water chutes after the starlings.They had two recycling projects collecting 20Kg of waste batteries and stamps.They identified two main litter / waste problems generated in the school as A. Lunch Packaging and B. Paper Waste.
They bought a compost bin and encouraged lunch boxes and reusable drink bottles. They got students to use more environmentally friendly lunch packaging in not using cling film or aluminimum foil etc.They used recycable paper and old work books for Junior Art.Response rate was over 90 %. Great praise was awarded to Frank Norton and Margaret Lantry for keeping the school and grounds in tip top condition.
Congratulations and well done everybody.