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New Pollinator Bed at Church Green

HUGE thank you to Fingal County Council for fulfilling our request for the planting of a pollinator-friendly bed at Church Green, off...

Saturday Clean Up - 27th Aug 22

Just shy of 25 volunteers showed up on Saturday and together they spent a sunny morning outside the Castleknock Gate at the Phoenix Park....

Sat Clean Up - and a busy week too!

Sat 20th was another fine, dry day - the volunteer crew worked hard on the Old Navan Road mini roundabout clearing weeds and debris. A...

Sat Clean Up - 25 out in 25 degrees!

Hot, hot, hot! Saturday's Clean Up was a warm affair with 25 volunteers working on Auburn Avenue (in the shade, wherever possible)....

Calling Castleknock Amateur Photographers

Castleknock Tidy Towns Calendar 2023 Following the success of our CTT Calendar 2022, we are preparing the 2023 version and would like to...

Sat Clean Up - 6th Aug '22

A huge turnout of over 25 volunteers showed up 'raring to go' on College Road on Saturday. The weather was superb - a big change from the...

Little Village Article - Jun/Jul '22 issue

Nice to see an article in the July issue of Little Village magazine about the defibrillator now located at Myo's of Castleknock. In May...

Rain stopped play on Saturday

Unfortunately Saturday's Clean Up was cancelled due to heavy rain. We still got a decent Tidy Up completed on last Wednesday evening with...

Funding for Castleknock Heritage Trail

Great news. Just heard we have been allocated €23,400 in funding under the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) to develop a...

Sat Clean Up 23rd July - quite the party!

Despite the rain, 20+ volunteers worked on Castleknock Road at the entrance to Park Avenue and Beechpark Avenue. Weeding, deadheading and...

New planting at Laurel Lodge

Good job FCC for the new planting at the entrance to Laurel Lodge. Thanks to Laurel Lodge Environmental Group (LLEG) and the volunteers...

Sat Clean Up - 16th July '22

Saturday's hot weather didn't stop the 25+ volunteers out once again on Auburn Avenue, working from the entrance to The Pines in the...

Finally - chains restored and painted

A team of seven volunteers were out last night to complete the work painting the chains and bollards in the village. Huge thanks go to...

Sat Clean Up - 9th July '22

On Saturday we had another fine crew of 25+ volunteers out getting stuck in once more (including some very welcome new faces). This time...

Wed Tidy Up - 6th July 22

Last Wednesday three volunteers were out painting bollards and chains. They made good progress on the stretch outside the Guinness...

Céile in Castleknock

Trad session at LIDL Plaza, Castleknock today. Great music from Slí Dhála Comhaltas, Dublin 15, impromptu céile dancing by passers by and...

Fixes around Castleknock village

Good to see two businesses responding positively to CTT's requests for 'fixes': ESB Networks removed a large coil of cable (which was...

1,000+ Tree planting project update

Lovely to see our tree planting efforts doing so well. The two open orchards are very popular with the local community. Little apple buds...

BIN YOUR GUM, WHEN YOU'RE DONE

Last week Evelyn Pender CTT met up with Sinéad Fox, Environmental Awareness Officer at FCC at the BIN YOUR GUM awareness campaign held at...

Sat Clean Up - 2nd July '22

Saturday's Clean Up was a great success with 25+ volunteers out in force to do serious work on College Road. The paths and verges were...

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