Cork's Lord Mayor honours Tidy Towns winners, with volunteers from nine to 90

The members of Ballincollig Tidy Towns were praised by the Tidy Towns committee for its 'truly exceptional level of community involvement'

Cork City Council chief executive Valerie O'Sullivan, nine-year-old Dominik Wachta, Ballincollig Tidy Towns chairman Tom Butler, Lord Mayor councillor Dan Boyle, Cork City Council assistant chief executive Brian Geaney, and 90-year-old Jacqueline Cullinane. Picture: Brian Lougheed

From nine to 90 — the devoted inter-generational volunteers behind Ireland’s tidiest town have been honoured with a civic reception in Cork.

Jacqueline Cullinane, 90, and Dominik Wachta, aged nine, the oldest and the youngest members of Ballincollig Tidy Towns, were among the group hosted by the Lord Mayor, Dan Boyle, in City Hall on Tuesday night, to mark their town winning the national SuperValu Tidy Towns Competition last month.