The latest nationwide survey by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) shows Monaghan among the country's cleanest towns, and rising to 6th position in the ranking of 40 towns and cities.
Cavan, is again clean but has slipped from 7th to 12th place. An Taisce, who carry out the surveys for IBAL said Monaghan retained its consistency of recent years, with seven out of the 10 sites surveyed getting the top litter grade and, most notably, no heavily littered sites.
It added that the Diamond Centre had frequently been a heavily littered one over many previous IBAL surveys - not so, this time around it was Grade A status. Monaghan Bus Station, Market House Museum and a couple of the approach roads were also very much deserving of the top litter grade.
The chair of Monaghan Tidy Towns Eimear Brennan spoke to the Wider View following these latest developments. She began by highlighting the positive impact these latest results will have on Monaghan town and the effort to keep it clean.
