Kildare village wins Age Friendly award
Joint winners of the Age Friendly Environment Award — Ballymore Eustace, Age Friendly Climate Friendly Village, Kildare County Council pictured with the Award Sponsor, Centre for Excellence in Universal Design at NDA and Awards’ Host Marty Whelan at the 2024 National Age Friendly Recognition and Achievement Awards. Photo credit: Fintan Clarke
Ballymore Eustace has been given national recognition as an age-and-climate-friendly village with an award at the 2024 National Age Friendly Recognition and Achievement Awards.
Announced at the 8th annual awards last week (7 November) the winning campaigns were chosen for their exceptional contribution to making Ireland an outstanding place to grow older.
Ballymore Eustace was chosen as a village to become Age Friendly and Climate Friendly by the fact that in the last census of 2016, Ballymore-Eustace had the largest number of older residents per head of population in the county.
From the climate action perspective, Ballymore-Eustace was chosen as an example of a rural commuter village and how it can integrate solutions at a community level to adapt to climate change.
Kildare shared the Award with Donegal County Council which has promoted age friendly inclusive beach access, an initiative is to enhance accessibility to Donegal’s beaches for all individuals, regardless of physical ability.
The event was presented by RTÉ star Marty Whelan and hosted this year by Fingal County Council at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry.
Ireland’s public libraries were also honoured on the night with the judge’s special recognition award, acknowledging the exceptional dedication of library staff nationwide.
