Over 20,000 people volunteer nationally with their local Tidy Towns group, but insuring volunteers is a cost burden on the approximately 1,000 tidy towns groups around the country.

Jacqueline Cullinane, 90, and Dominik Wachta, aged nine, the oldest and the youngest members of Ballincollig Tidy Towns, were among the group hosted by the Lord Mayor, Dan Boyle, in City Hall on ...