Great Island Spring Clean

The Television show Dirty Old Towns will be filming in Cobh on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, an episode of Nationwide will be filmed in Cobh on Easter Monday and thousands of visitors will come to Cobh for the Titanic 100 commemorations and events from 9th to 15th April. It is essential to show Cobh at its very best, as a town that looks amazing, where the people show pride in their homes, businesses and town and are willing to roll up their sleeves to make Cobh a nicer place to live in, work in and to visit. Cobh Tidy Towns is urging businesses, Sports clubs, Residents’ Associations, community groups and individuals to come out and give the Great Island a thorough Spring Clean by picking litter, sweeping, painting, washing, cutting grass, removing weeds and planting flowers and shrubs on Good Friday and Easter Saturday.

The projects lined up by Cobh Tidy Towns for the Dirty Old Towns programme include the painting of a huge Titanic related Mural on the retaining wall on the Low Road. For this alone we will need at least ten competent painters working long hours over 2 days to complete the “Weekend Challenge”. The television production schedule takes no account of the fact that the 8th April is Easter Sunday! Other projects will require countless volunteers. It is intended to complete power washing and removing chewing gum from all of the brick paving in the town centre, to plant shrubs and flowers in the Promenade Flower beds, to plant shrubs at various locations around the town, to paint lamp posts and bollards, to wash and dress the windows of vacant shops, to clean the stone work of the Marian Shrine and to put O’Hanlon’s Meat Car and horse in their new location. The Promenade Flower bed project is particularly suited to Parents and their children from the age of 5 upwards.

We encourage everyone to get involved all over the Great Island; Parents and their children, teenagers and their friends and see what a difference can be made when we work together over a weekend while being a star of a television programme!  As yet there isn’t a timetable for the weekend’s activities, but the Wall Mural project will start at 7 am on Saturday 7th April. If you would like to help out in any of the mentioned projects please email cobhtidytowns@gmail.com, message us on Facebook or phone 087 2593850 and we will update you nearer the time.