Cork City's northside jumps eight places to 31st in national litter league

Cork city centre and Mahon managed to hold onto both their 'clean' status in the latest Irish Business Against Litter rankings

Last June, Cork City's northside was deemed to be 'seriously littered', coming in 39th out of 40 places. File Picture: Damian Coleman

Cork City’s northside has achieved its best ever result in the Irish Business Against Litter rankings, in what has been one of the city’s best over-all showings.

The latest litter survey for Irish Business Against Litter shows the northside has jumped eight places in the national litter league year-on-year, with the city centre and Mahon holding their "clean" status.

Last June, the northside was deemed to be "seriously littered", coming in 39th out of 40 places, behind only Dublin’s north inner city. This latest result sees it "moderately littered" in 31st place.

The city centre has maintained its "clean to European norms" ranking, jumping from 26th place last June to 17th this year, while Mahon is also "clean to European norms", and has gone from 27th to 23rd.

'Moderately littered'

In Cork county, past winner Fermoy has improved slightly to 29th place from last June’s 32nd place, but is still deemed "moderately littered".

Nationally, Sligo again topped the ranking, with Limerick city centre the only area branded "littered".

No town or city occupied the "seriously littered" or "litter blackspot" categories at the bottom of the league table.

Overall, litter levels were on a par with last year, with 27 towns deemed clean. Sligo finished ahead of Monaghan and Leixlip, with Waterford — again Ireland’s cleanest city — in fourth spot.

Conor Horgan, of the Irish Business Against Litter, said that with the peak season for tourist visitors approaching, there were fewer littered areas in the country than at any time over the past 25 years.

“The job’s not done, but across the country, local authorities appear to have upped their game when it comes to tackling persistently littered sites and dumping in our towns and cities,” he said.

CORK BUSINESS

A collection of the latest business articles and business analysis from Cork.