With no National Tidy Towns competition in 2020 due to the Covid shutdowns, it became clear when the 2021 results were announced last Friday that the effects of the pandemic are still being felt, with a big fall-off in the number of entries, down by more than 20% on the 2019 Westmeath entry.
Once again, Ballinahown and Tyrrellspass are Westmeath’s two front-runners, with Ballinagore improving their mark of 332 in 2019 by 12 points to reach 344, while Tyrrellspass moved still closer to them, up by 14 points from 327 to 341 this year.
