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Offaly Town Considered One Of The Cleanest In The Country

Monday, 5 January 2026 06:58

Tullamore is considered cleaner than European norms.

An Offaly town is now among the cleanest in the country.

This year's IBAL litter rankings sees Tullamore move up to fifth, up from seventh six months ago.

Other Midlands towns are sliding down the rankings however.

Mullingar went from 11th down to 15th, Portlaoise fell to 25th from 20th, and Athlone from 18th to 32nd.

Irish Business Against Litter spokesperson, Conor Horgan says other urban areas are getting tidier, with less dumping going on:

Mr Horgan says there's a clear path for Athlone to improve:

The An Taisce report for Tullamore stated:

Another excellent result for Tullamore with seven out of the ten sites getting the top litter grade.  These included Axis Business Park (exceptionally freshly presented and well maintained);  Market Square was attractively presented and well maintained with a virtual absence of litter throughout; the Main Street had some lovely features (colourful tiered planter boxes, attractive paving and trees looking very autumnal);  Lloyd Town Park is certainly a gem – all aspects of were in very good order and clearly it’s a very well respected park environment.

For Mullingar the report says:

A typically solid performance by Mullingar with six top ranking sites and just one heavily littered. With so many top ranking sites, there are a few which deserve special mention: Mullingar Town Park is a lovely environment with all elements in very good order;  County Buildings / Mullingar Arts Centre presented very well and a welcome features is the drinking water fountain at the main entrance;  Oliver Plunkett Street was very much deserving of the top litter grade, where clearly a careful eye is kept on the various closed down / vacant premises. 

Portlaoise:

Another solid showing by Portlaoise, despite the majority of sites falling short of clean status. Top ranking sites included the residential area of Aghnaharna Drive, Glass Bottle Bank at Dunnes Stores and R445 Approach from M7.  There were four sites which just missed the top litter grade – not much effort would be required for this to be achieved.  Improvements were noted at Carmody way – previously a heavily littered site, not so this time, but still somewhat littered. Harpur’s Lane & Environment was partly brought down by the derelict site, but not solely, as there were heavy levels of casually discarded litter. 

Athlone:

Four heavily littered sites saw Athlone lose clean status. These included John Broderick Street, Paradise Row and Shops at corner of Southern Station Road & Ballymahon Road.  They need to be addressed if the town is to move back up the rankings. Dublin Gate Street / Church Street were very freshly presented and deserving of the top litter grade.  A vacant property at Southern Station Road showed notable improvement from a previous IBAL survey when this was heavily littered – this time around it was very much deserving of the top litter grade. 

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