After many years of transporting plants, water, tools and machinery all around Swords in our own cars, on trolleys or over our shoulders, Swords Tidy Towns are now able to travel in style.

The good people of Windsor North Dublin have sponsored a van for our exclusive use.

The van presented is a Renault Master 100 percent electric.

We are all very grateful to Ken Walsh and all at Windsor North Dublin for this godsend.

Noel Cosgrave from Swords Tidy Towns accepted the keys from Ken Walsh, Windsor, on behalf of the group on July 31st.

The following day Noel took the van out for the first time, taking fellow members Dympna and Catherine as passengers. They really appreciated the convenience of being able to transport heavy weeding equipment about the town so easily.

This Saturday, member Georgy Hughes had the honour of baptising the van, as she was the winner of the naming competition amongst our members. The van is now called Winny.