Kinvara Tidy Towns

25/05/2026

What a beautiful morning for our Welcome Meitheal last saturday😎. It was such a great day weatherwise.☀️

Seven work groups with new residents in village, volunteers and our Kent State University students helped us get ready for ajudication with seven jobs completed. A really great help towards ajudication readiness. 💪

Mile buiochas to the ICA for all their baking, communitiy groups Kinvara Alive, Tidy towns, KAVA and ICA for promoting what they do. Thanks also to Mark Molloy from Galway Co Co for promoting anti dog fouling and litter campaigns and best practices.

We also completed a nature walk, including exploring our pollinator beds and two new biodiversity signs, more to follow tomorrow.

Grateful to all for their time and positive support to our team🙏😊

KAVA. Kinvara Area Visual Arts
Kinvara Alive
Kinvara ICA Guild
Galway County Council


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25/05/2026

Get your tickets for the Kinvara Community Orchestra Fiesta concerts this weekend.

Tickets available in ususal places 😀👎

Only 10 days to go until our Fiesta! Concerts.

📆 join us on May 30 at 8pm or May 31 at 4pm, Kinvara Community Centre.

Head over to KAM for online sales

https://kinvaramusic.com/box-office/
or buy in store at Healing Harvest # in Kinvara (cash only).

Tickets €15/adult, €5/child.

And thanks to
Creative Ireland Galway County
Galway County Arts Office
for their ongoing support of music in the community.

Kinvara, Buy Sell Information and News.
Kinvara Community Council
Kinvara Area Music
The Arts in Galway
Ballyvaughan Community
Music For Galway
Visit Galway
Discover Ballyvaughan
Gort Community and surrounding areas
Oranmore

25/05/2026

Mile buiochas to Kinvara GAA for hosting Kent State University play gaelic football and hurling on friday last.....The students loved it and did really well!

Really appreciate Garret Byrne, Joe and Pat Conole for facilitating and time🙏

24/05/2026

Thanks to St. Joseph's NS , Principal Dominic Gallagher and teacher Bronagh Crampton for hosting Kent State university students and faculty on friday.

They were so impressed with the sixth class STEM lego projects and how research and learning is supported by our community collaborations. They were most impressed with the students delivery and openess to share their projects.

Kent state university have been visiting Kinvara since 2021, to experience community groups and experience music and sport. Will share some more posts on their visit over the next few days.

23/05/2026

Thanks to our wednesday crew for prepping benches and railings for painting 😀

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22/05/2026

Meet our Kinvara solitary Bees Billy and Bella tomorrow on our Bee Fly path Treasure Hunt🐝🐝

We are all buzzing and looking forward to seeing ye all tomorrow, meet at Community centre at 10am🐝😃

Plan
10am - Litter pick/help a tidy towns workgroup
11.45 - Nature walk starts from Community centre
12.30 Tea, chat, meet comm groups, play boules or jenga

Looking forward to meeting new people!

21/05/2026

Are you coming to our welcome meitheal ? We would love to see you on saturday to help us get ready for ajudication 😀 The sun is also going to come out ☀️

Come along at 10am and work with one of our tidy towners?, Then go on a nature walk around our village at 11.30am and check out our pollinator planting beds and two new biodiversity signs🐦‍⬛🦢🐦🌊🌊

Children welcome on walks and can complete a litter scavenger hunt or follow the Bella and Billy flypath treasure hunt🐝🚮

After have a cup of tea, meet our community groups, check out community listing, play some boules or jenga.

See you at the Community centre at 10am😀

21/05/2026

Great biodiversity events in Loughrea😀

Check out programme below💪

🌿Loughrea to come alive with wildlife discoveries as Biodiversity Festival and BioBlitz kicks off tomorrow! We’re delighted that our festival will be officially opened by An Cathaoirleach of Galway County Council, Cllr David Collins.

From 7:30pm tomorrow, teams of ecologists, local schools and volunteers will come together to record as many species as possible across the town and lake in just 24 hours. Alongside the BioBlitz, there’s a full programme of free, family-friendly events at our hub on the Fair Green, including guided walks, talks and biodiversity demonstrations.

Hedgerows Ireland will be running an educational event throughout the day at Mad Yolk Farm on the 22nd May, with guided walks at 11am and 1pm. The walks will be approximately 1.5 hours in length.

If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you there, come along, get involved and help us celebrate the rich biodiversity of Loughrea. For more information, visit www.mkoireland.ie/bioblitz

Loughrea Anglers Galway County Biodiversity Office Loughrea Tidy Towns St Brigid's College, Loughrea CELT Gaelscoil Riabhach

20/05/2026

Great fun with our pollinator chalk art kicked off Biodiversity week with the magic second class from St. Joseph's NS

We also completed a litter pick around the village, ci******es are our main waste type being found these days!

Mile buiochas to Miss Kelly, Mr Sexton, Miss Crampton, Miss Leydon and to Hilary Sexton as always for helping facilitate five outreach initatives this past year! 😀

20/05/2026

Happy World Bee Day 🐝🐝🐝

Check out beautiful booklet produced by Biodiversity Ireland to celebrate pollinators and planting stories and examples across Ireland.

20/05/2026

Mile buiochas to our Scouts and Leaders Jamie and Aengus who were out last wednesday. We got lots of weeding of Boules court done and walls ready for painting.

Appreciate your much needed help🙏

Kinvara Scout Group - 28th Galway