January 24th 2019, Áras an Chontae -Seven young Kilteevan Tidy Towns members hand over 1,000 signatures (pledging to refuse plastic straws) and their final Report on the Straws Suck, #Refuse the Straw Campaign to Suzanne Dempsey, Environment Officer, Roscommon Co Council.

Easter Sunday April  21st 2019;  Click on the link below to view the outcome of their collaborative working.

https://www.facebook.com/RoscommonCountyCouncil/videos/vb.185096911834205/452358352182002/?type=2&theater

Heartiest Congratulations to everyone in Roscommon and Kilteevan for promoting and supporting this vitally important initiative.

Thanks to extraordinary community effort and collaboration Roscommon Town will be Plastic Straw Free this Easter Sunday (April 21st 2019) and hopefully continually into the future. Great coverage on Roscommon People this week.

Kilteevan Tidy Towns, Roscommon Co Council, Plastic Free Rosommon, Roscommon Chamber of Commerce, Roscommon Vintners Association worked together to bring about this historic day for Roscommon.

Major credit must go to Suzanne Dempsey, Environment Officer, Roscommon Co Council for her hard work and dedication.Very Well Done to  our  young Tidy Towns members - Éabha Dolan Sophie Coen James Mooney, Kevin Fannon, Kieran Coyle, Liam Egan, and Adam Lalwani,

Reflect on the following words of wisdom;

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors;  We borrow it from our children".

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In keeping with our interest in our environment, Kilteevan Tidy Towns is appealing for poster free 2019 elections. This follows up on our campaign during the Presidential Election and on the Straws Suck Campaign. We are appealing to the goodwill of all candidates in requesting a voluntary poster ban.

The very sad reality is that;

• Like other single use plastics, posters they take 400+ years to biodegrade.
• In the 2014 local elections, an estimated 611,000 posters were erected with a combined cost of €3M with posters covering the equivalent area of 23 Croke Parks
• This produced 366 tonnes of Co2, the equivalent of driving an average car non-stop for 592 days
• After 30 days of canvassing, the majority of these posters were sent to landfill.(Poster Free.ie)

We welcome the fact that the following candidates are poster free in Roscommon:

Dominick Connolly, Kathleen Shanagher, Valerie Byrne, Orla Leyden, Ivan Connaughton, John Cummins, Joe Murphy, Aidan Sampey and Donal Kilduff.

April 18th 2019