Our History
Community Employment
About 30 years ago we took on a number of Community Employment Workers then known as the Fas Scheme(Today it's know as Community Employment Scheme). This helped to relieve some of the work load of the Tidy Towns Committee and it started to gain further momentum. This freed up the committee to seek out funding and organize more projects for the town. Louth County Council gave us the use of a small yard and out offices for the Tidy Towns on Barn Road beside the Fire station. This helped us to have space for meetings and a place to report for work for our CE workers etc.
Super Value National Tidy Towns Competition
We have made great interests in our marks in the last 8 years of the Super Value Tidy Towns all Ireland competition which is bringing us a bit closer to our goal of getting into the medals category, which we see happening in the next 3 or 4 years at the present rate of progress. Some of the projects which we were involved with in the last few years can be seen in the photographic section of the web site. We now have over 30 plaques and prizes to our name and so it is onwards and upwards for Dunleer Tidy towns.
Prize winner in 2021
Just before launching this web site, it has been announced that Dunleer has won the Bio Diversity Prize for the Louth in Bloom Competition 2021. It can be seen on the green area on the Barn Road near Maryville entrance.
Our Winning ways
During the Summer of 2016 our Secretary Pat Roche led the team of people from Dunleer in voluntary organization and in business to showcase Dunleer in the National Pride of Place Competition. This was our first time to be chosen by the Council to represent Louth in the All -Ireland Competition and we were very excited when Dunleer came in second in our category of small towns in the whole of Ireland in the Pride of Place Competition in 2016. The following year in 2017 we took part along with most of the community organisations in the Bank of Ireland Enterprise town of the year, led by Eugene Conlon from the DCDA Board. The results were announced at a presentation in Kilkenny. Three people traveled from Dunleer to represent the town in this competition which was highly contested. They got very excited when Dunleer was announced as winners of the Leinster Section of the Competition and then it went on to the All -Ireland results showing Dunleer also as the winner in the All -Ireland small towns category. Then when the All -Ireland overall winner was announced we were pipped at the post by just 2 marks. But our representatives just sailed home from Kilkenny sending the great news ahead of Dunleer’s double win in this Competition.