The Leitrim town was named Ireland's Tidiest Town for 2025 as well as Ireland's Tidiest Small Town.
The launch will take place on the boardwalk Monday morning between 11am and 12pm and Carrick Chamber of Commerce President Finola Armstrong McGuire said that it's another chance for the town to celebrate the amazing win. "Hopefully the weather will be kind to us because it will showcase the Shannon and the two counties."
Talking to the Leitrim Observer she said that Minister Calleary will also attend an awards ceremony later that evening. "That night in The Landmark Hotel, the presentation awards ceremony for everyone in the North West and West region takes place. That's a regional event for all the different areas so Carrick is hosting that this year. The event is by invitation only; every volunteer group in the region that will take part has already received their tickets."
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She said the recent Carrick-on-Shannon St Parick's Day parade featured significant numbers of volunteers as well as Tidy Towns stalwart, Kathleen Coleman who act as Grand Marshall on the day. "A lot of children participated in it. We saw through the parade the number of volunteers in our clubs and children can be involved in two or three clubs. It was very well represented. Scoil Mhuire were outstanding in their presentation of biodiversity and the Tidy Towns showed their silverware and were leading it out.
Kathleen Coleman was our Grand Marshall with her husband Padraig. She has done Trojan work for Carrick throughout the years and is a member of Tidy Towns for over 40 years. It's great to see that the culmination of her work is the overall win of the Tidy Towns competition. That was honoured on the day."
Ms Armstrong-McGuire said that they were hoping to replicate last year's success and are "pulling out all the stops" to try and make it happen. "We are going to showcase the town at it's very best and wclome the judges back again and see can it be a historic event and have two years of winning. We certainly have improved on it. Several groups are coming including volunteers from Longford and Roscommon visited actually on the Sunday before the win. There is great camraderie among the Tidy Towns groups. It's a competition and we do our best but we love to meet other Tidy Towns groups and see what they are saying and doing."
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The judges are due to do spot checks in towns across the country in June, July and August. "Nobody knows when they are coming. Nowadays they just have cameras with them; they used to have pads and pens."
