Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua

Group of Volunteers passionate about our town & #LiffeyLinearPark
Help enhance your local environment in planned / coordinated way.
#Vision4Newbridge 🇮🇪

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

June 5th is #WorldEnvironmentDay

The 2026 theme is #ClimateChange

The earth is sending signals - rising seas, heatwaves, melting glaciers

We need more energy generated from solar panels & wind turbines

We must redesign towns for people, replant our forests & protect wildlife.

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Cigarette butts dropped onto our footpaths can make their way into surface drainage systems which often feed into our rivers & from there onto our beaches & into our lakes & oceans.

They leach arsenic, lead, nicotine into aquatic environments, our parks & your local environment.

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Today June 3rd is #WorldBicycleDay

Cycling is a healthy, energy efficient & non-polluting mode of transport;

Cycling requires pedal-power with no resulting exhaust fumes or battery charging;

Cycling is:
Great exercise!
Environmentally Friendly!
Cost-effective;
Family friendly!

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

As we continue our work into 2026 we thank all who have lent us your talents & given us a hand to date.

Our volunteers turn their hands to any task from tree planting to litter management.

If you have an hour to volunteer - please give us a call

https://t.co/8LDtjBy6vg

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The wildflower area in @dunnesstores #Newbridge is blooming very well this week, a good number of #bumblebees spotted

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Newbridge In Bloom

Thanks to all who helped with installation of Newbridge In Bloom over the weekend.

There are some more planters to address.

Thanks to Jer Delaney planned, designed & provided a wonderful summer floral display.

https://t.co/6kdsq9cy3c

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Red Horse Chestnut
Aesculus x carnea Briotii
Crann cnó capaill

Flowering wonderfully with spectacular bright red flowers this May.

An introduced species, not native to Ireland.

A lovely ornamental tree.

#LiffeyLinearPark
#WildflowerHour

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Bog Cotton
Common Cottongrass
Eriophorum angustifolium
Ceannbhán

AKA Common Cottongrass

This native plant is generally found on bog land or peaty ground.

Its flower is coloured white & grows from tallish stems.
A wonderful plant.

#WildflowerHour

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Yellow Rattle
Rhinanthus minor
Gliográn

AKA ‘the meadow maker’ completes its life cycle in one year.

Flowering now until August with wonderful yellow flowers with blueish / violet tips.

The seeds are inside capsules & when ripe make a “rattling” noise.

#WildflowerHour

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Swedish Whitebeam
Sorbus intermedia

White flowers in May, orange-red berries appear in the autumn & are consumed by birds.

This deciduous tree grows to a medium-size, has a dense canopy & dark green leaves

Attracts wildlife - bees, butterflies, hoverflies etc.

#WildflowerHour

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Star-of-Bethlehem
Ornithogalum umbellatum
Réalta bain na Beithile

Blooming now - a star shaped flower, its white petals have a green stripe on the reverse.

Narrow leaves with white stripes down their centre.

A garden escape, plenty in the #LiffeyLinearPark

#WildflowerHour

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St. Mark’s School Duck Race on the Liffey

Where: Liffey Linear Park
When: TODAY Saturday 30th May 2026
Time: 12:00 – 13:00

We welcome the annual duck race & fund-raiser in the #LiffeyLinearPark

Sponsor a duck and be in with a chance to win a prize.

@StMarks1974
@June_Fest

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Lebanon Cedar
Cedrus Libanii

This Lebanon Cedar tree is the original tree planted in the #LiffeyLinearPark wildflower meadow to commemorate members of the defence forces who died while on UN service.

This is the original tree is the smaller of the two & is thriving since 2006.

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Today 29th May is the
International Day of UN Peacekeepers

This Lebanon Cedar (Cedrus Libanii) tree was planted in the #LiffeyLinearPark to commemorate & honour the memory of members of Irish @defenceforces who have lost their lives in the cause of peace while on #UN service.

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Bee Highway

We are facilitating development of a Bee Highway along the towpath from the Watering Gates to the Strand.

Some nice wildflowers popping up & more will appear as perennials tend to take a little more time.

These patches are #ManagedForWildlife & cut once per annum.

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Daisy
Bellis perennis
Nóinín

A native plant & very easily recognised, frequently seen on lawns & grasslands.

Children & the young at heart often made “daisy chains” in the summertime & still do.

Visited by key pollinators - bees, butterflies, hoverflies etc.

#WildflowerHour

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Cow Parsley
Anthriscus sylvestris
Peirsil bhó

AKA Devil's Parsley

A native wildflower, generally flowering from April to June often in shaded areas.

Can reach a height of 1 Mtr.

White 5-petalled flowers & relatively large triangular leaves.

#WildflowerHour

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Borage
Borago officinalis
Borráiste Gorm

A garden escape which has become naturalised in some locations.

Five blue coloured star-shaped flowers appearing May to September.

These at the end of Chapel Lane here in #Newbridge

#WildflowerHour

[Newbridge Tidy Towns Association #DroicheadNua @TTNewbridge]

Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna
Sceach gheal

The Hawthorn is a native tree with shiny dark-green lobed leaves & blooms extensively with white flowers in May

Common in traditional hedgerows - in the autumn it is covered with bright crimson berries.

#LiffeyLinearPark
#WildflowerHour

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Red Campion
Silene dioica
Coirean coilleach

A native pinkish-red flower with hairy stalk, which can grow in shaded spots & grassy banks.

Can reach 1 Mt. high with five split petals without any perceived fragrance

Flowering May to September.

#LiffeyLinearPark
#WildflowerHour