Bandon Tidy Towns Group

06/11/2026

Some great signs highlighting the biodiversity work in Charlie Hurley Park.

28/10/2026

If they bring their bakery it could be dangerous 😋 Welcome to Bandon Scally's Super Valu Clonakilty

Scally's SuperValu in Clonakilty have confirmed that they will acquire SuperValu Bandon next month.In a major expansion for the Clonakilty-based family retail business, which opened their Clonakilty SuperValu store in 1984, this will be their second retail outlet in West Cork.It

25/10/2026

Another victory for Bandon, putting our town on the map for all the right reasons! Well done to all involved.

24/10/2026

Exciting stuff coming for Christmas in Bandon. Drop into O'Farrell's to pick up raffle tickets for some great prizes including a massive prize from Desmonds Jewellers & Goldsmiths. Bandon is the place to be.

23/10/2026

Bronze for Bandon in the 2026

We have retained our Bronze medal in this year’s Tidy Towns Competition but have had our biggest increase in points ever and just missed out on a silver medal by just 2 points. The adjudicators final comment was “Bandon was a revelation to this adjudicator and the work that you have been carrying out in every category and at every corner of the town is exemplary”

We would like to thank all of the clubs, schools, community groups, CE and TUS participants, businesses and state agencies who worked with us and supported us over the year. A big thank you also to Cork County Council who get behind our efforts every year and support a community led effort in shaping our town.

As always the biggest thanks goes to our volunteers who give up their free time on top of work and family commitments to make a real difference to our town.

For us, success is a town which people enjoy living in, working in and visiting and which supports the amazing wildlife we share it with. Medals and prizes aside, we are well on our way to achieving that.

19/10/2026

Protect The Park and make Bandon a leader

As a country we love to, justifiably, pat ourselves on the back. Whether it is the friendliest country, the country who does most good in the world, among the most competitive for business, among the highest educated… the list goes on. To be fair, we are pretty great!!!

But when it comes to nature, our beautiful “green” country is abysmal. The Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index placed Ireland 13th from the bottom out of 240 countries. We are behind war torn countries, rich countries, poor counties and industrial powerhouses.

Last year, 90% of Ireland’s EU protected habitats were in ‘unfavourable’ conservation status, while 51% were showing deteriorating trends.
We are ranked third from bottom in percentage forest cover within the EU. Our global ranking for forest cover is 168th. Our whole country ranks lower for tree cover than London!

For a country that once had 80% forest covered we have dropped to 12% and the overwhelming majority of this is non-native plantation forests which do little for nature. Native forest makes up around 2%. Native, ancient rainforest makes up much, much less. The Park in Bandon is one of these incredibly rare examples.
We could go on, but it is all a bit grim.

We hear of grand policy ambitions, increased budgets, action plans and all that goes with them in response. But what if the starting point was even more simple… as simple as a quick e-mail from you.

After much joint campaigning from This is Bandon, Bandon Tidy Towns and BEAG, Cork County Council have stepped up and proposed a protection order for the ancient temperate rainforest at The Park in Bandon.

This will only pass with public support, so we are asking everyone to simply take a few minutes to send an e-mail to [email protected] supporting the preservation order for these woodlands (see notice attached).

By all of our community coming together to protect this space, Bandon can become a leader in protecting our natural environment.

18/10/2026

18/10/2026

Well done to Bandon GAA on all of their sustainability initiatives. If you are taking actions in your business or club please reach out to us and let us know how you are getting on

17/10/2026

🐝A big shift put in today at the Riverview Walk. It is now walkable from end to end, but there is another day of tidying to be done to finish it off.
🐝A huge thanks to all the volunteers who came out today and nice to have Bandon Environmental Action Group representation with us too. Town does not look as good as it does by accident and it is thanks to their efforts that everyone can enjoy this walk again.
🐝Unfortunately we had to fish another shopping trolley out of the river again today. It takes a special kind of moron to throw one in there in the first place.

16/10/2026

🐝We are continuing work tomorrow (Saturday 17th) on the Riverview Walk. Any volunteers will be welcome.
🐝Meeting 10:30am at the top of the Lidl Car Park.