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Litter League – the worst Towns in Ireland

census-analysis — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:28:42 +0000

Tallaght is the dirtiest town in Ireland – that’s according to “Irish Business Against Litter “ They are an alliance of companies who say they share a sharing a belief that continued economic prosperity is contingent on a clean, litter-free environment. As part of the IBAL Anti-Litter League, An Taisce monitors all towns of population 6,000 and over, independently in accordance with international grading standards.

The first round of results were published today and 3 towns came out as being Litter Blackspots. These towns were Tullamore , Roscommon and worst of all was Tallaght .
The towns of Bray , Ballina, Cobh, Enniscorthy, and Longford did not come out too well either – they were all classed as Seriously Littered.

Slightly better – but still classed as Littered were the towns of Athy, Kilkenny ,Limerick City, Cork City, Ranelagh and Mallow
Ennis came out top of the League out of 55 towns and cities in Ireland.

Edenderry most Early Risers

census-analysis — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:39:58 +0000

Edenderry in County Offaly has the highest percentage of early risers out of all the towns in Ireland with a population of over 5000.
According to Census 2006 figures - 18.84% of workers in Edenderry have to leave their house before 6.30am to go to work. (498 workers out of 2963) The top 10 towns for leaving home before 6.30am are:
Edenderry
Portarlington
Navan (An Uaimh)
Athy
Ceannanus Mór
Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington
Rush
Trim
Kildare
Balbriggan

Longford tops Unemployment Blackspots

census-analysis — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:04:34 +0000

The town of Longford has the highest unemployment rate in Ireland – of all towns over 1500 population.
Census figures show that the percentage of unemployed people in Longford is 11.14% – compared to a national figure of 5.89%. Longford has almost double the average rate of unemployment.
Top Ten Towns for Worst Unemployment
Rathnew
Abbeyfeale
New Ross
Ballina (Mayo)
Carrick-on-Suir
Enniscorthy
Athy
Castlecomer-Donaguile
Cootehill
All these towns have rates of unemployment above 8.68%

Balbriggan has highest percentage of Africans

census-analysis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:42:57 +0000

Africans in Ireland
Of all the towns with a population over 5000 – Balbriggan Co Dublin has the highest concentration of residents of African Ethnic origin. In Balbriggan 5.85% of the population recorded their ethnic origin as African in the 2006 census (890 people).
In all of Ireland there were 39734 people of African origin – that is 0.98% of the total population.
Other towns in Ireland (5000 plus population) where the percentage of Africans is over 3% :Longford 4.1%
Athy 4.02%
Lusk 3.64%
Ennis 3.61%
Dundalk 3.53%
Drogheda 3.25%
Navan 3.18%
Kilkenny 3.05%

According to the census returns there are only 3 Africans in the town of Dungarvan. (It is possible that people did not answer the question) – so this town has the lowest percentage of Africans in Ireland at 0.037.
The percentage of African residents is also low in Roscommon Town (2) , Newcastle West (4) and Tipperary Town (5)