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This Saturday (17th October) we will be working on the Riverwalk. Meeting at 10.30am at our container at the harbour. ...
15/10/2026

This Saturday (17th October) we will be working on the Riverwalk. Meeting at 10.30am at our container at the harbour. All are welcome. There will be just one meeting point this weekend for all including our Gaisce volunteers.

This week’s hedgerow fruit is the Rose hip. Commonly seen in our hedgerows at this time of year, their oval scarlet-ora...
11/10/2026

This week’s hedgerow fruit is the Rose hip. Commonly seen in our hedgerows at this time of year, their oval scarlet-orange fruits are a familiar sight. They’re a good food source for birds like the Song Thrush, Fieldfare and the endangered Green Finch. Field mice, Voles and Dormice also consider them a tasty snack.

Interestingly, they were apparently used to make a vitamin C rich syrup for pregnant women during World War II.

These days, they’re commonly used in herbal teas, dried for home fragrences and aromatic oils are extracted from them.

And that’s not all, in Hungary and Romania, brandy and other alcohol is made using rose hips. Soft drinks too are made using them - apparently Slovenia’s national soft drink is made from them and was developed to rival Coca-Cola. Who knew?!

Another busy Saturday for BTT 👏🏻Thanks the group of 16 who litter picked on the Southern Cross. This group included 9 of...
10/10/2026

Another busy Saturday for BTT 👏🏻

Thanks the group of 16 who litter picked on the Southern Cross. This group included 9 of our Gaisce volunteers. Plenty of bags of litter collected along with a bag of glass bottles for recycling and a box of used Nitrous Oxide canisters. Fantastic work 🙌🏻

Thanks also to the spectacular seven who worked on the median at Springfield. Tough working digging but great to see the pollinator plants planted earlier in the year still alive after the very dry summer.

A pic of the alcove in Springfield thrown in too - still in bloom 🌸🐞

And while most of us were still snoozing in our beds this morning, our volunteer Paul was doing Trojan work on the Riverwalk getting beds ready for topsoil and replanting next week.

And finally a shout out to members of our graffiti removal group who were out this afternoon removing some particularly offensive graffiti. Well done Ian, Ossian and Joe. No pics for obvious reasons 😉

What a day! Well done all! Up Bray!

There will be two meeting points for this Saturday’s call out.Gaisce volunteers - we will ask you to litter pick with us...
08/10/2026

There will be two meeting points for this Saturday’s call out.

Gaisce volunteers - we will ask you to litter pick with us on Saturday 10th October - meeting at Pettitt’s Supermarket on the Southern Cross. We will litter pick along the Southern Cross and perhaps the Boghall if we have the numbers. We will meet at 10.30am. If anyone else would like to join this litter pick please come along.

Springfield - Everyone else please meet us this Saturday 10th at 10.30am at the cemetery at Springfield. We will be working on the median.

Hope to see you then.

This week’s hedgerow fruit is the haw - the dark red waxy fruit of the Hawthorn tree. Sometimes known as Whitethorn or t...
04/10/2026

This week’s hedgerow fruit is the haw - the dark red waxy fruit of the Hawthorn tree.

Sometimes known as Whitethorn or the May tree, Hawthorn is one of Ireland’s most common native trees. Associated with local legend and folklore, the Hawthorn often appears as the Fairy Tree in lore of days gone by. It was said to be very unlucky to interfere with a hawthorn or to bring its branches or flowers inside the home.

The berries themselves are dry and bland tasting and not widely used in cooking however they provide food for birds especially Fieldfare, Thrush and migrating Redwing. They are also a nutritious food source for small field mammals.

A few photos from yesterday’s call outs. 12 volunteers worked on the Riverwalk - watering, splitting plants and preparin...
04/10/2026

A few photos from yesterday’s call outs.

12 volunteers worked on the Riverwalk - watering, splitting plants and preparing some of the raised beds for planting.

Separately, 11 volunteers including some of our Gaisce students litter-picked all around the Killarney Road.

A great morning’s work. Thanks to all.

There will be two meeting points this Saturday.First is for our Gaisce volunteers who will be litter picking along Killa...
30/09/2026

There will be two meeting points this Saturday.

First is for our Gaisce volunteers who will be litter picking along Killarney Road. Meeting at 10.30am at the little lay by in-front of Brendan Maloney & Company solicitors which is on the corner of Killarney Lane and Killarney Road. This call out is also open to non Gaisce volunteers so feel free to come along.

Secondly, we will be working on the Riverwalk. We will meet at our container at the harbour at 10.30am - this will be mainly gardening work similar to last week. 

This week’s berry is the humble Blackberry. Blackberries grow wild throughout most of Europe and their shiny purple/ bla...
27/09/2026

This week’s berry is the humble Blackberry.

Blackberries grow wild throughout most of Europe and their shiny purple/ black fruit are a common sight on roadside hedges and alongside fields.

Their stems are called briars and are heavily barbed with large sharp thorns. As most gardeners will know they spread invasively and will pop up all over the place.

Did you know that each fruit is technically an aggregate fruit made up of what we call small druplets?

Blackberries are delicious raw or cooked in pies, crumbles and jams. We’re not the only ones who think so. Foxes, badgers and mice find them irresistible! Birds also love them - particularly Blackbirds, Wrens and Chaffinches.

Have you picked blackberries this year?

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It was a beautiful sunny September morning today & we had a great group of volunteers out on the Riverwalk. Lots and lot...
26/09/2026

It was a beautiful sunny September morning today & we had a great group of volunteers out on the Riverwalk. Lots and lots of watering done - the beds haven’t recovered from the drought yet. Split lots of plants too which means more plants for next year! As always some litter picking to be done and lots of full dog poo bags…. Thanks to all who helped out.

This Saturday, we’ll be working on the Riverwalk - gardening, watering and litter picking. There will be plenty to do t...
24/09/2026

This Saturday, we’ll be working on the Riverwalk - gardening, watering and litter picking. There will be plenty to do to give the beds some attention after a dry Summer.

We’ll be meeting at the same place as last weekend - our container at the harbour. We’ll bring all the tools up to the Riverwalk in the trolley. If you are running late, please join us on the Riverwalk itself.

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