Tidy Towns 2016: Skerries this year’s tidiest town with Munster close to clean sweep

The seaside location topped the poll of some 859 entries around Ireland to be crowned winner of the annual Tidy Towns contest. It also won the prize for Ireland’s Tidiest Large Town.

The win for Skerries marks just the second time that a Dublin entry has won the national prize, in 58 years of the competition. Malahide won the award in 1990.

Skerries scooped the national prize with 327 marks. It was followed closely by Birdhill, Co Tipperary, and Ennis, Co Clare, with both entries earning themselves 326 marks each.