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Cobh Great Island Tidy Districts Awards
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The Cobh Great Island Tidy Districts Awards ceremony, held on Thursday night last in Cobh Heritage Centre was a wonderful night of community celebration.
The awards sponsored by Cobh Credit Union are now in their fifth year since being relaunched in 2010. Colman Rasmussen, the chairman of Cobh Credit Union revealed that their sponsorship of the competition is the largest individual sponsorship by Cobh’s largest community based organisation. He also spoke of the transformation in Cobh throughout the last five years. The judge Terry O’Regan spoke of his difficulty in deciding the winners in each category because of the particularly high standard of estates, gardens and individual flower displays entered.
The overall first place was awarded to Rushbrooke Links, an estate with over 600 houses. Chairman of Cobh Tidy Towns, Hendrick Verwey spoke of pride in our own community being the very
essence of the Tidy Towns ethos. Pride in our homes and gardens, in our streets and neighbourhoods and in our town are what keeps people going. He went on to say that Cobh is very fortunate to have a Cobh person of the calibre of Sonia O’Sullivan to be proud of. Cobh Tidy Towns is fully supportive of the initiative to have a bronze statue of Sonia unveiled in 2015 and the proceeds of the raffle held would be donated to the fund.
In spite of a smaller than normal attendance at the awards €430 was raised. On the same night, at the Muintir na Tíre Pride in Our Community Awards ceremony held in Ballincollig the Titanic Memorial Garden scooped Best Tourism Project and Best Town Awards in this intensely fought competition.
The Titanic Memorial Garden was jointly entered by Cobh Tourism and Cobh Tidy Towns and the awards were accepted by former town councillor Paddy Whitty, Paul O’Halloran and Vincent McMahon.
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