Irish Towns Guide

E Coli in the Water Supply  in Several Irish Towns
A recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that there are a few places in Ireland with E Coli in the drinking water . E Coli is usually derived from faeces - human or animal - and can cause severe illness and possibly death .

According to the EPA - the following large towns water supplies  “failed to meet E.coli standard as reported in the Drinking Water Report and need investigation and improvement if necessary - to ensure that the root cause of the problem has been rectified.”
Waterford City
Athlone
New Ross
Swinford

There were many other smaller water schemes that failed the  E Coli tests including

Lanesboro , Inishmore, Mullenbawn, Leap ,Ball ,Clarinbridge ,Kilcolgan
Boyle Ardcarne Avoca Templemore Pettigo Ballingeary Drimoleague Gowna
Rahan Craughwell Omeath Donoughmore Kilbritten Kiltealy Adrigole Ballinaclose
Kilconell Clare Island Keadue

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Most of the date used on this site is from the Census - but a recent interesting  litter survey was published on all towns in Ireland with more than 6000 population.
The littering survey ranked the 50 towns in order of cleanest first, The full table is shown below (From the Irish Business Against Litter). Sligo came out worst (dirtiest) and Dundalk came out the best (cleanest)

1. Dundalk “Litter Free”
2. Cavan “Litter Free”
3. Fermoy “Litter Free”
4. Trim “Litter Free”
5. Killarney “Litter Free”
6. Monaghan “Litter Free”
7. Carlow “Litter Free”
8. Galway City “Litter Free”
9. Youghal “Litter Free”
10. Bray “Litter Free”
11. Letterkenny “Litter Free”
12. Ballina “Litter Free”
13. Naas “Litter Free”
14. Roscommon “Litter Free”
15. Thurles “Litter Free”
16. Drogheda “Litter Free”
17. Athy “Litter Free”
18. Waterford City “Litter Free”
19. Midleton “Litter Free”
20. Wexford “Litter Free”
21. Arklow “Litter Free”
22. Castlebar “Litter Free”

23. Swords “Moderately Littered”
24. Ballinasloe “Moderately Littered”
25. Maynooth “Moderately Littered”
26. Kilkenny “Moderately Littered”
27. Greystones “Moderately Littered”
28. Tralee “Moderately Littered”
29. Portlaoise “Moderately Littered”
30. Gorey “Moderately Littered”
31. Ennis “Moderately Littered”
32. Leixlip “Moderately Littered”
33. Longford “Moderately Littered”
34. Limerick City “Moderately Littered”
35. Cobh “Moderately Littered”
36. Clonmel “Moderately Littered”

37. Dungarvan “Littered”
38. Wicklow “Littered”
39. Tullamore “Littered”
40. Mullingar “Littered”
41. Newbridge “Littered”
42. Navan “Littered”

43. Athlone “Seriously Littered”
44. Dun Laoghaire “Seriously Littered”
45. Cork City “Seriously Littered”
46. Enniscorthy “Seriously Littered”

47. Mallow “Litter Blackspot”
48. Tallaght “Litter Blackspot”
49. Nenagh “Litter Blackspot”
50. Sligo “Litter Blackspot”

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According to census 2006 figures on the time that people leave the house to go to work - Westport has the highest percentage of workers who don’t leave the house until after 9.30 am. (Out of all towns with more than 5000 population)
298 workers in Westport out of 2013 (1.48%) said in the census that they left their house to go to work after  9.30am. Other towns with high percantages of  late risers include  Ballina Longford Birr
 Castlebar Athlone Galway City Sligo Killarney .
At the opposite end of the scale is Lusk - where only 0.38% of workers manage to get such a good lie in each weekday.

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There were 16250 people of Chinese ethnic origin living in Ireland at the 2006 census. This is 0.4% of the population.
Bray has the highest proportion of Chinese  with 1.42% .
Athlone is the next highest with 0.99% and the Greater Dublin area has 0.98% of residents with Chinese ethnic origin.
Kells (Ceannanus Mor) is the least popular town for Chinese people - 0.058% or just 3 people. That is slightly lower than the whole Rural area which has 0.064% Chinese.

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