Thank you to the Northside People for featuring Castleknock Tidy Towns’ Christmas cheer lights up Castleknock.

Three TY students from St Vincent’s Castleknock College successfully completed their Community Care Placement week with Castleknock Tidy Towns. The students worked diligently from 9.00am to 3.30pm over four days, contributing enthusiastically to a wide range of CTT activities, including: • Hedgerow planting with native Irish trees and primroses • Tree planting • Washing and maintaining the polytunnel • Waterproofing new outdoor benches • Bulb planting • Hedge clipping • Sorti

A big thank you to our regular volunteers 👏 and to those who join us whenever they can. Every effort counts. Thanks to you all, the village is cleaner, greener — and a better place for us all including wildlife, who appreciate a plastic free environment.

Five CTT Volunteers representing Castleknock Tidy Towns were delighted to attend the annual Volunteers Appreciation Evening and Fingal Volunteer Managing Awards 2025 A big congratulations to all the Volunteer groups who attended and were awarded for their dedication to voluntary and community activity, making meaningful contribution to the quality of life within their communities. Community volunteering remains a cornerstone of Ireland’s sustainable and connected society. Cas

There was a huge turnout and lots of festive cheer at the annual lighting-up ceremony of the Castleknock Christmas tree. Seven year-old Elian Pérez - our youngest Volunteer - had the special honour of lighting the Christmas Tree this year. The event began inside St Brigid’s Church with a short performance by the award-winning St Brigids NS choir. The official lighting of the Christmas tree followed outside, accompanied with carols by the Castleknock Tennis Club choir. Refresh

Fingal County Council is the first Local Authority in Europe, outside of Norway, to install smart technology at shared bike parking zones and we are pleased Castleknock has been chosen to trial the project. The main aim of the technology is to eliminate the problem of mis-parked and badly parked hired bikes which are a hazard and unsightly. The technology involved is a wireless solar powered Bluetooth device placed on top of a pole adjacent to the bike parking area which beam

Thanks to the Dublin Gazette for mentioning Castleknock Tidy Towns with Students from Edmund Rice College.

Transition Year students from Edmund Rice College joined CTT volunteers for a leaf collection along Auburn Avenue. The gathered leaves were added to CTT’s leaf mould cages for composting. A big thank you to all the students for their great teamwork and enthusiasm!

The cleaned up, recycled, reused and repositioned name stone has been installed in the rose bed in the centre of the village. Thanks FCC Operations Department and Darren from Liffey Memorials.

Thank you to all who helped in the production of the Castleknock Tidy Towns 2026 Calendar. Out Now! Thanks to the photographers: Declan Mescall, Evelyn Pender, Linda Byrne, Ruth Murphy and Stephanie Ryan. Photographic editor Paul Redmond, editor Patricia Sheehan, Printer SchoolPrintResources, Businesses who are stocking the CTT Calendars: The Village Shoemaker Castleknock and Educogym Castleknock. We simply couldn’t produce our fundraising calendar without your support. Your

Castleknock Tidy Towns would like to thank Little Village magazine for featuring Castleknock Tidy Towns’ initiative to make Castleknock more accessible and age-friendly through the installation of a new bench and pollinator bed at the pedestrian entrance to Peck’s Lane. This spot is now a welcoming haven to rest, chat, and enjoy the beauty and life of the pollinator-friendly flowers.

Edmund Rice TYs joined CTT volunteers and planted locally gathered wildflower seeds of Oxe-eye Daisy, Poppy, Cowslip and Vetch on Auburn Ave green.🌱 Seeds today, blossoms for the future. 🍃🌸 #TYFriday #CTT #Seedstoday #Blossoms

Castleknock TidyTowns wish to once again thank each and all of the local campaign teams for the Presidential Election for respecting the Castleknock Poster-Free Zone. The initiative was, once again, an outstanding success and received phenomenal support from all concerned and this is very much appreciated by the community of Castleknock.

Thanks to Castleknock Lawn Tennis Club for arranging the removal of graffiti from the side of their premises following request from CTT.

We are delighted to announce: the Tidy Town Competition 2025 results are out. Thank you to all Volunteers, Businesses, Residents and Fingal County Council for all the work. A great achievement to everyone who played their part, no matter how big or how small. It all counts to making our community of Castleknock a great place to live, work, play and for all to enjoy. We received 313 marks, a nearly 6% increase on last year’ 296. We increased our marks in each of the 8 categori

The sign for St Vincent’s Castleknock College is pointing the wrong way. We have reported it to FCC. If you spot issues in the public realm please report them to casmuloparea@fingal.ie Telephone: (01) 890 5000 Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm; Friday - 9am - 4.30pm.

Pleased to advise the post box on Auburn Avenue has been repaired and is functioning again.

To all of the volunteers of Castleknock Tidy Towns, I wanted to thank all of the volunteers of Castleknock Tidy Towns for your hard work and dedication over the past few years. Your work has quickly turned our village into a beautiful haven, as well as made it easier and safer for all of our community to spend time out of doors. On behalf of those of us whose health prevent our participation, Thank You! Yours Sincerely,  Caoimhe Murray

This Guinness house in the centre of the village had been vacant for over thirty years and was deteriorating rapidly and at great risk of vandalism. The vacant premises behind it had been burned down maliciously. Castleknock TidyTowns played a significant part in preserving and restoring this historic building by contacting the owner encouraging him to take positive actions which resulted in the property being put on the market. The new owner has carried out a substantial res

Following our representations to Fingal County Council this new granite name-stone has been installed on the Castleknock Road at the Hawthorn Lawn roundabout. Thank you FCC Operations Department. 👏