National Spring Clean Good Friday
Swinford Tidy Towns would like to say a huge "Thank You" to 24th Mayo Swinford Scouts who took part in our National Spring Clean on Good Friday. We would also like to thank all the tidy towns volunteers that showed up to help out on the day. 61 hardy volunteers...
An Taisce National Spring Clean
Swinford Tidy Towns will again be taking part in this years An Taisce annual National Spring Clean. We had a very successful clean up last year in the national spring clean, with the help of 24th Mayo Swinford Scout Troop along with some very famous face's as...
St Patrick’s Day Parade Swinford 2013
Swinford Tidy Towns won 1st prize in "The most original" category in this years 62nd annual St Patrick's Day Parade. You can view all the photos here. Swinford Tidy Towns presented with 1st prize for "The Most Original" category to Deirdre Fahey by Mr Francis Brennan...
St Patrick’s Day Swinford 62nd Annual Parade
This Sunday 17th of March will be the 62nd annual St Patrick's Day Parade to be held in Swinford. The very first Parade was held in Swinford way back in 1952 and has continued every year ever since without fail! The theme for this years St Patrick's Day Parade is,...
New Mural at Chapel Street
Swinford Tidy Towns committee would like to say a huge thank you to Varina Mc Nicholas, for undertaking the project of desiging and painting the new mural at Chapel Street in Swinford. We would also like to thank Therese Hennigan who gave her time to help Varina....
WEEE Ireland Public Collection Days in Mayo
WEEE Ireland organises and promotes public collection events of waste electrical and electronic equipment (weee) and waste batteries. Any household item with a plug or battery will be accepted at these collection events – from large items such as fridges, dishwashers...
New Recycling Bank at Tesco Swinford
 New recycling bank at Tesco Swinford Tesco Swinford last week installed a new Recycling Bank at the entrance of their car park. Due to the huge number of Swinford residents now recycling their household waste on a regular basis, the two existing Recycling Banks were...
One Million Trees in One Day
One Million Trees in One Day have confirmed the dates when this project will take place. The planting of the trees will take place on Friday 22nd March and Saturday 23rd March. Swinford Tidy Towns Committee put in an application and our project was approved last...
Christmas Tree Recycling
Reminder for anyone with Christmas Trees left lying out in the back yard. Mayo County Council will take your Christmas for free recycling. You can drop off your tree at the council yard at Kilkelly Road Swinford. You will be able to drop off your tree up until...
1 Million Trees in 1 Day Project
Swinford Tidy Towns are applying to One Million Trees In One Day Charity, to add our project to the initiative. "One Million Trees in One Day is a charity, not-for-profit, cross-border, community and environmental initiative which will plant a million young native...
New Flower Beds
Swinford Tidy Towns Committee have been busy preparing for next year. We have constructed and installed six timber flower beds under the Swinford signs on the three approach roads into Swinford, from the Swinford bypass. Hopefully they will be in full bloom, when the...
Dulux Lets Colour Project
Last May Swinford Tidy Towns Committee applied to the Dulux Lets Colour Project. Dulux  had a huge amount of applications from all over Ireland. Thankfully Swinford was one of the 194 applications that was accepted. The project we had in mind was the car park wall at...
WEEE Recycling Day Tesco Swinford
WEEE reycyling day at Tesco Carpark next Sat 6th from 10am - 4pm for anyone with unwanted electrical item or battery operated items that they want to get rid of at no cost. Just bring along your items to the staff on duty in the carpark. Tesco serving the community...
Clean Street League Award Winners Announced
The 2012 Swinford Clean Street League Award winners were announced at the Awards ceremoney in the Gateway Hotel last night. Full Report here; It was a close battle all year between Main Street and Davitt Place! There was only ever a couple of points between them after...
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