80% of Irish towns as clean or cleaner than European norms

Ireland’s tidiest town is poised to make a clean sweep today.

Killarney, which won the national Tidy Towns competition last year, is in the final shake-up with Cavan and Kilkenny to top the Irish Business Against Litter’s (IBAL) anti-litter league and be named the country’s cleanest town.

But despite a major improvement in the overall cleanliness of towns and cities over the last decade, absentee landlords in north inner city Dublin, and littered train and bus stations, are still posing a problem.