Author Archives: Gez Bettney
St Patrick’s Day Parade – 2025
Presentation to Athboy Scouts for their Pride of Place, Young Persons category award.
2024 All Meath Pride of Place awards
Athboy was successful in winning awards in the Best Heritage category (the Heritage Trail project) and the Best Apartment Complex (Branmount/Millview).
2024 Supervalu Tidy Towns awards in Croke Park
Athboy Tidy Towns were delighted to have retained the Silver medal award and winning the Local Authority Pollinator Award for Midlands & East (Small town category).
Cowpark Orchard – 07 Nov 2024
Additional native Irish apple trees were added to the Cowpark orchard in a project that has been growing for several years.
Town-wide Fruit Tree Project
For the past few years, ATT have been sourcing native Irish fruit trees & gifting them to local schools, associations & families in order to build a town-wide fruit tree orchard to encourage birds & insects to the area. These photos are a selection of plantings done in October 2024.
2023 Supervalu awards presented in September 2024
2024 Kells district Pride of Place awards
Athboy had a remarkably successful night last night at the Kells District Pride of Place awards. The successes were: Best Large Town; Heritage (Heritage Trail); Meadowlands (Runner-up Medium Housing Estate); Millview/Branmount (Best Apartment Complex); Clann na Gael Health Club (Community Wellbeing); Priory Gate (Best Newcomer) . Congratulations to all the town for contributing to these achievements, including Athboy Tidy Towns, Friends of Athboy Tidy Towns, Athboy Businesses, Athboy Men’s Shed, Athboy Scouts, Community Employment workers and the many clubs & individuals that support us.
