07/03/2019
1st place winners of the 3rd and 4th class category are students Alice Kennedy, 4th class, and Evelyn Ryan, 3rd class, from Mary Queen of Ireland NS, Caherdavin, with teacher Mary Shearin, JP McManus and Paul O'Connell at the 'Design a TLC Bottle' prizegiving at the Hunt Museum, Limerick. Over 50 primary schools across the county entered ahead of Team Limerick Clean-Up 5, which will see thousands of volunteers take to the streets of Limerick city and county for Europe's largest one-day clean up. Sponsored by the JP McManus Benevolent Fund, the event has seen over 360 tonnes of litter gathered from the streets since inception in 2015. Over 14,000 volunteers have already signed up for the 2019 event, taking place on Good Friday, 19th April.
Photo by Diarmuid Greene