Dunleer Tidy Towns was started in 1978 by Paddy McGrory from Beechwood Drive, Dunleer. It began in a small way by cleaning the streets with litter picking and planting some flowers, which was good as the town was very unkempt at the time. As time progressed, we started to enter the Tidy Towns National Competition and gain some momentum in the work that was going on at that time. We probably shied away from the process and the paperwork that had to be followed to obtain funding.

In the last 10 years, we have been searching out sources of government funding to help the town modernize in a faster way and update some of the black spots. Each year we do several fundraising events to gather funds to cover the day-to-day expenses of the Tidy Towns and to help fund 10% of the funding needed by us to take on projects during the year. All funds raised go to support Dunleer Tidy Towns in its endeavour to make Dunleer one of the best small towns in Ireland where people will be proud of their town and help them take pride in it.