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  • 1 week ago | independent.ie | Myles Buchanan

    The PAL Awards, presented by the Association of Landscape Contractors of Ireland (ALCI), acknowledge excellence and professionalism across the Irish landscaping industry. The award celebrates Avondale’s role in transforming Myrtle Square as part of a wider urban revitalisation project led by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The judges commended the project for its high standard of finish, thoughtful tree transplantation, and delivery under challenging urban conditions.

  • 1 week ago | independent.ie | Myles Buchanan

    Grandparents and special people invited to the school to show the important role they have in young people’s livesBlessington Community College pulled out all the stops as the grandparents of attending students were invited to the school for a morning of music and chat. The school’s wellbeing committee came up with the idea in order to foster closer links between the school and the local community, and decided on a grandparents and special persons day.

  • 1 week ago | independent.ie | Myles Buchanan

    The draft River Basin Management Plan aims to set out the measures that are necessary to protect and restore water quality in Ireland. Under the draft River Basin Management Plan, protections for 456 water bodies nationwide are at risk of being diluted by being classified as ‘highly modified’. If this goes ahead, it will mean that these water ways will no longer be subject to water quality standards.

  • 1 week ago | independent.ie | Myles Buchanan

    Jennifer Whitmore says proposed changes to water quality standards could lead to pollution and long-term ecological damage in Vartry and Dargle rivers. A Wicklow TD with a background in ecology, marine science and environmental law fears that a recent government decision will weaken environmental protections which could have ‘disastrous’ consequences for Wicklow waterways such as the Vartry ad Dargle rivers.

  • 1 week ago | independent.ie | Myles Buchanan

    ReWild Wicklow held its first peatland restoration day of the summer carrying out work alongside rangers from Wicklow Mountains National Park up on Kippure Mountain. The volunteers were greeted by beautiful blue skies as they hiked up to one of the new trail restoration sites in the Wicklow Mountains in order to start their works.

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