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Winners from across Ireland honoured by Clean Coasts being Ocean Heroes 

Dec 10, 2021 Awards, News, Waterways 0


Winners from across Ireland honoured by Clean Coasts being Ocean Heroes 
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Meet Ireland’s Ocean Heroes! 

Over the past two weeks Clean Coasts have honoured winning groups, individuals, communities and businesses who have won an Ocean Hero Award for outstanding work and commitment to their coastlines and areas.

Clean Coast’s Ocean Hero Awards 2021 Beach Clean Bubble award winners Keep Our Beaches Clean volunteers at a clean-up event in Mayo.

Each year, the Ocean Hero Awards honour the invaluable contribution Clean Coasts volunteers, groups and communities have made towards conserving our spectacular coastline. The awards, originally called the ‘Clean Coasts Merit Awards’, were conceived in 2006. Being Ireland’s foremost community-based coastal education programme, the Clean Coasts programme can count on the work of over 1,800 volunteer groups and over 37,000 volunteers. The involvement and support of the whole community are essential to the work of Clean Coasts and the Ocean Hero Awards is an award thought to recognise the invaluable contribution volunteers, groups and communities have made towards conserving the Irish coastline.

It has been an unusual year, and, like everyone, Clean Coasts and their volunteers have had to adapt. The continued support, engagement, and interest from the many Clean Coasts volunteers around the country has been outstanding, showing dedication and resilience through these testing times. Clean Coasts understands that it was not possible for everybody to take part in clean-up activities this year and for some it was incredibly frustrating not to be able to get out to those places that they love and normally care for. Nonetheless, there is great value in sharing examples of the creative solutions that groups have come up with to inspire us all to look ahead to the new year.

In an effort to recognise the growth of our volunteer groups, the number of Ocean Hero categories have expanded to include ten categories in 2021.

The categories include:

  1. Clean Coasts Group of Year
  2. Clean Coasts Volunteer of the Year
  3. Clean Coasts Youth of the Year
  4. Clean Coasts #2minutebeachclean Leader Award
  5. Clean Coasts #BigBeachClean Award
  6. Clean Coasts Beach Clean Bubble Award
  7. Clean Coasts #EnjoyandProtect Award
  8. Think Before You Flush Community of the Year (supported by Irish Water)
  9. Clean Coasts Corporate Volunteering Award
  10. Clean Coasts Amazing Achievements Great and Small Award

In 2021 a total of 36 groups, organisations and individuals were shortlisted for the title of Ocean Hero within each of the ten categories.

All shortlisted nominees were sent a congratulatory package to thank them for their contribution to coasts across Ireland despite the various challenges that 2021 brought.

The ten winners from each of the categories hail from all over Ireland, including Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Wexford.

This year in place of a traditional awards ceremony Clean Coasts decided to do something a little bit different. They surprised the winners in each of the ten categories located across Ireland with their very own Covid safe awards ceremony where they were presented with their very own engraved Ocean Heroes trophy.

Sinead McCoy, Clean Coasts Manager said: “I would like to congratulate all of the Ocean Hero Awardee, our shortlist and winners are incredibly inspiring volunteers, groups and communities that have made an outstanding contribution to protecting Ireland’s coastal environment.  The Clean Coasts programme’s Ocean Hero Awards have been celebrating the incredible efforts of volunteers around the Irish Coastline since 2006. Although 2021 has been challenging at times it has been an incredible year for Clean Coasts and our network has grown so much and shown an incredible amount of dedication and care for our beaches, coastline, marine life and oceans. We were delighted to have received so many inspirational nominations that show not only the true dedication of these coastal custodians, but also that their efforts don’t go unnoticed by the community.” 

These various ceremonies were filmed and compiled into a celebration video that can be found on Clean Coast’s YouTube Channel here: https://youtu.be/4dkQ4TxfusU

2021 Ocean Hero Award winners included:

Group of the Year Award Winner 2021 

Cooley Community Alert Peninsula Marine, Dundalk, Co. Louth

Individual of the Year Award Winner 2021 

Mairead Staunton Keep Our Beaches Clean, Co. Mayo

Youth of the Year Award Winner 2021

St Colman’s Community College, Midleton, Co. Cork

#2minutebeachclean Leader Award Winner 2021 

Sean Ferguson, Co. Wexford

Big Beach Clean Award Winner 2021 

Banna Beach Coastcare Group, Tralee, Co. Kerry

Enjoy and Protect Award Winner 2021 

Subowti, Co. Cork

Beach Clean Bubble Award Winner 2021 

Keep Our Beaches Clean, Co. Mayo

Think Before You Flush Award 2021 

Martina Butler – North West Sea Kayaking Association, Co. Sligo

Corporate Volunteering Award Winner 2021 

Lidl Ireland

Amazing Efforts Award Winner 2021

Caroline Davy, Co. Cork

Shortlisted nominees

Group of the Year 2021

Winner: Cooley Community Alert Peninsula Marine, Dundalk, Co. Louth

Shortlist:

Group  Location 
Friends of Rossnowlagh Co. Donegal
Clean Coasts Ballynamona Youghal, Co. Cork
Ring Peninsula Community Group Co. Waterford

Individual of the Year 2021

Winner:  Mairead Staunton Keep Our Beaches Clean, Co. Mayo

Shortlist:

Individual Location Group
Clare Wall Co. Donegal Friends of Rossnowlagh
Rachel Saint Sevin Arklow Co Wicklow Arklow Coastcare Group
Sally O’ Reilly Youghal, Co. Cork Clean Coasts Ballynamona

 

Youth of the Year 2021

Winner: St Colman’s Community College, Midleton, Co. Cork

Shortlist:

Group Location
Scoil Mhuire Buncrana Co. Donegal
Hazel and Jesse Hastings Co. Mayo (Keep Our Beaches Clean)

#2minutebeachclean Leader Award 2021

Winner: Sean Ferguson, Co. Wexford

Shortlist:

Group Location
Keep Sligo Clean Co. Sligo
Mark McCarthy

(Mark Schull or The Plastic Bandits)

Skull, Co Cork
Leitrim Litterpicker Co. Leitrim

Big Beach Clean Award 2021

Winner: Banna Beach Coastcare Group, Tralee, Co. Kerry

Shortlist:

Group Location
Bettystown Tidy Town Co. Meath
Gormanstown Community Association Ltd. Co. Meath
Tramore Eco Group

(Also mention Ann and 2minutbeachclean in write up).

Co. Waterford

Enjoy and Protect Award 2021

Winner: Subowti, Co. Cork

Shortlist: 

Group Location
Wexford Sub Aqua Club Co. Wexford
Heron Help Co. Cork
Our Crossing Co. Sligo

 

Beach Clean Bubble Award 2021

 

Winner: Keep Our Beaches Clean, Co. Mayo

 

Shortlist: 

Group Location
Killaspugbrone Clean Coasts Co. Sligo
Bettystown Tidy Towns Co. Meath
Wexford Estuary Group Co. Wexford

 

Think Before You Flush Award 2021

Winner: Martina Butler – North West Sea Kayaking Association , Co. Sligo

Shortlist:

  • Citibank
  • DCU Canoe Club
  • UCD Surf Club

Corporate Volunteering Award 2021

Winner: Lidl Ireland

Shortlist:

  • Salesforce
  • Ulster Bank
  • EY

Amazing Efforts Award 2021

Winner: Caroline Davy, Co. Cork

 

About Clean Coasts:

Clean Coasts is a charity programme, run through the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce, which engages communities in the protection of Ireland’s beaches, seas and marine life. Clean Coasts works with communities to help protect and care for Ireland’s waterways, coastline, seas, ocean and marine life. Clean Coasts thrives to create tangible and immediate improvements to Ireland’s coastal environment, involving thousands of volunteers removing large quantities of marine litter from our coastline each year.

Clean Coasts has grown over the years and now includes two main national clean-up drives. Other initiatives include the Green Coast Award, the Love Your Coast Photography competition, the Clean Coasts Roadshows for coastal communities and the Ocean Hero Awards. All these initiatives are aimed at celebrating the beauty of our coast and the efforts of our volunteers across all of Ireland.

Currently, there are over 1,800 registered Clean Coasts volunteering groups. There are a variety of group types such as community groups, residents’ associations, tidy towns groups, sports clubs, schools, businesses, universities etc. Clean Coasts organises hundreds of beach clean-ups annually mobilising thousands of volunteers, removing considerable quantities of marine litter from Ireland’s beaches and waterways.  Our volunteering has expanded to also include Corporate Volunteering.

Clean Coast’s Ocean Hero Awards 2021 Group of the Year winner Cooley Community Alert Peninsula volunteers at the beach in Cooley, County Louth.

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