Members of the Buncrana Tidy Towns group have announced a stop to street cleans as the town remains without a road sweeper.
Donegal’s second largest town has had no road sweeper service since it was withdrawn in May due to reported budget constraints.
Throughout the summer, volunteers have been picking up litter almost daily.
Now that the judging period of the Tidy Towns competition has passed,, the group says it cannot maintain the intensive effort. “Rewarding as the work is, it’s also exhausting as we all also have jobs, families and busy lives,” the notice said. “We will no longer be maintaining the same level of work and will be stopping the street cleans for the foreseeable future.”
The Buncrana Tidy Towns group has appealed to the public and local businesses to help keep the streets clean, urging private citizens to “litter pick, weed and scrape the paths outside of your facades.” They also called on people to highlight the issue to local councillors until the sweeper service is restored to its previous schedule of 5 days per week.
According to the group, Donegal County Council has been “working in the background to provide another service, but to no avail.”
Exhausted Tidy Towns volunteers halt street cleans in Buncrana was last modified: September 1st, 2025 by Staff Writer