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Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
KILKENNY HAS BEEN named Ireland’s most litter-free town for 2012, taking the title from 2011 champion Trim.
The title follows a year-long audit of 44 towns and urban areas around the country, grading each based on the condition of its urban areas and the quantity of litter there.
The following is the final ranking for 2012. How did your town do?
Cleaner than European Norms
- Kilkenny
- Cavan
- Killarney
- Ballina
- Castlebar
- Trim
- Longford
- Buncrana
- Fermoy
- Clonmel
- Dun Laoghaire
- Tramore
- Wexford
- Drogheda
- Galway City
- Youghal
- Swords
- Tullamore
- Bray
- Waterford City
- Naas
- Cobh
Clean to European Norms
- Mullingar
- Sligo
- Kildare
- Athlone
- Ennis
- Dublin Airport Environs
- Roscommon
- Tallaght
- Monaghan
- Portlaoise
- Navan
- Tralee
- Tipperary
Moderately littered
- Cork City
- Dundalk
- Limerick City
- Carlow
- Dublin City
- Maynooth
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Littered
- (No towns earned this grade in 2012.)
Seriously Littered
- (No towns earned this grade in 2012.)
Litter Blackspot
- North Inner City Dublin
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