Historian and broadcaster John Bowman is to be made an Honorary Corkman while businessman and philanthropist Tom Cavanagh will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at next month's Cork Person of the Year awards.

Cork Harbour is one of the three most heavily littered waterways in Ireland, according to a study.

Our city centres are cleaner than ever, but problems of household waste presented for collection in bin bags are contributing to major litter problems in some areas.

Littering of disadvantaged city areas is getting worse, a new survey has found.

Ireland’s larger towns have cleaned up their act but litter is still a major problem in disadvantaged city areas.

Locals in the North Inner City of Dublin are defending their area after it was deemed "littered", according to the latest survey by Irish Business Against Litter.

Extra work still needed in some poorer, urban areas, survey finds

Local authorities showing favouritism to tourism and retail hotspots has left neighbourhoods without the necessary supports to fight litter, business leaders said.

This year marks a milestone in the life of North Cork dealership, Cavanaghs of Charleville, as it celebrates 50 years as a Ford main dealer.

A survey carried out by Irish Business Against Litter shows that rubbish is largely limited to neglected city areas.

IT is heartening to learn that not one town out of 40 surveyed up and down the country was deemed a ‘litter blackspot’ in 2015, according to the annual report of Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL). 

HIDDEN between the lines of the annual survey conducted by Irish Business Against Litter and An Taisce, ranking how badly littered cities and towns are in Ireland, one can see the countless faces and unread names of community activists who take pride in the places where they live and work tirelessly to improve them.

Kerry is king when it comes to being litter-free, but Dublin still has a capital problem with rubbish, according to the latest survey by by the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) group.

The tremendous response to the Team Limerick Clean Up is evidence of the importance that the city’s citizens attach to a clean environment. As Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) surveys show, our cities are more littered than our towns.

Protesters who successfully halted two consecutive meetings of Cork City Council were nowhere to be seen last night, as councillors finally managed to come together, uninterrupted, to trawl through the vast array of items accumulated over the past month.

People living in the area branded Ireland’s only litter blackspot have united to clean up their act.

Ireland's towns and cities appear to be cleaning up their act on litter.

Anti-litter campaigners have warned that the impending abolition of town councils could have a negative impact on the cleanliness of urban areas.

Kilkenny has retained the title as Ireland’s Cleanest City at an awards ceremony in Dublin.

Irish Business Against Litter’s annual Anti-Litter League results have been delivering good news in the first week of January for a number of years now.

The increase sales of in car, lorry and 4x4 during the economic boom means Ireland’s pollution levels now exceed EU standards.

Kilkenny has been named as the cleanest city in Ireland by the Irish Business Against Litter group.

Tourists landing at Dublin Airport are being met by littered approach roads, according to a nationwide survey by Irish Business Against Litter.

‘Welcome to Ireland, home of litter’ — the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) group has said visitors are faced with the wrong impression of the country due to rubbish-strewn roads on Dublin’s north side.

Nearly all of Ireland's third level colleges are now litter-free and a model for other public places to follow.

Litter wardens should regularly give on-the-spot fines to businesses who fail to clean up their surrounds and car-parks, according to Irish Business Against Litter.

A COUNCILLOR who represents a community labelled one of the country’s worst litter blackspots has launched a blistering attack on an anti-litter group.

BUSINESSES leaders have hit back at a survey which found that parts of Dublin were a litter blackspot.

Businesses leaders have hit back at a survey which found parts of the capital were a litter blackspot.

Dublin has been named a litter blackspot in the latest litter survey.

KILLARNEY in Co Kerry is the cleanest town in Ireland, according to the latest survey by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL).

ANTI-LITTER campaigners have called on the Government to launch an initiative to get major companies to sponsor the clean-up of the national road network.

CARLOW is Ireland’s cleanest town according to the results of a national litter league table announced yesterday.

The south-east has come up trumps in the latest litter survey by An Taisce.

CITIZENS can alert local authorities to litter blackspots under an initiative by the Irish Business Against Litter organisation after its latest survey showed a fall-off in the number of litter-free towns.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has called for the country’s road maintenance budget to be more than doubled to ensure real action to tackle litter on tourist thoroughfares.

A new campaign to tidy up key tourist areas is being criticised by a major anti-litter group.

Bray has gone from being one of Ireland's dirtiest towns to its cleanest in just one year.

I WOULD firstly like to commend Cork County Council for the recent clean-up operation on the main Cork-Dublin road between the Jack Lynch Tunnel and the Glanmire exit.