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TY Students from St Vincent’s Castleknock College Complete Community Care Week with CTT
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


Coffee and a chat on our final litter pick of the year!
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.


Fingal Volunteers Appreciation Evening/Fingal Managing Awards 2025
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


Lighting up of the Castleknock Christmas tree!
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


Innovative smart parking system launched in Castleknock to reduce bicycle clutter
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


TY Friday, 7th November
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!


TY Friday - 24th October'25
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


Thanks to Election Teams for Supporting Poster-Free Zone
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.


Tidy Town Competition 2025 results
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


Spot the issue here?
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.


With Gratitude from Caoimhe Murray to the Castleknock Tidy Towns Team
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


A new granite name-stone has been installed on Castleknock Road, at the Hawthorn Lawn roundabout
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. 👏


TY Friday! 17th Oct
Edmund Rice College TYs Students in Action with CTT Leaf Harvesting to start the process for rich leaf mulch next year. Great activity!


CTT QUIZ NIGHT'25
A fantastic Quiz night. Well done everyone! A great success with 30 Teams. A fabulous result, we raised a total €3015.40. Huge thanks goes to Volunteers involved in organising and all our supporters. Thanks to everyone who brought teams along. Thanks to Public Representatives who formed teams. Special thanks goes to business sponsors for their generous raffle prizes. Allcare Pharmacy, Bradys Castleknock, Butler’s Pantry, Castleknock Hotel, Choice Boutique, Educo Gym, Manhatta


Ty Friday!
25 Students from Edmund Rice College TYs and the Phoenix Class Students plus Elaine, Danielle & Michael cleared around the base of young...


Castleknock - new stuff happening!
A stroll around Castleknock this week had added excitement and things to note: Wines to browse in the beautiful new O'Brien's Wine store....


TY Friday!
Big thanks to Edmund Rice College TYs, the Phoenix Class, Elaine, Daniela & Michael for today’s amazing work! Cleared a seed bed &...


Castleknock Poster-Free Zone
It’s election time again! We love democracy but we also love sustainability therefore Castleknock Tidy Towns has this week urged all...


TY Fridays!
Huge thanks to the TY students & Phoenix Class students, plus Elaine, Daniela & Michael, for their great work on today! 25 Students from...


Castleknock TidyTowns is celebrating the completion of the installation of a significant enhancement of the approach to the village on College Road
Following lobbying by Castleknock TidyTowns the Operations Department of Fingal County Council installed a beautiful pollinator friendly...
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