{"id":583948,"date":"2026-07-13T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/583948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:26:24","slug":"cobh-selected-to-represent-ireland-on-european-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/583948\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobh selected to represent Ireland on European stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\n             <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41877620.html\">Cobh<\/a> has been selected to represent Ireland at the one of Europe&#8217;s most prestigious community and environmental competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cobh will go up against entrants from Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Hungary in the Large Town category of the 2027 Entente Florale Europe competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The competition, established in 1975, places an emphasis on partnership between local authorities and communities in delivering lasting improvements to their towns and villages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Cork County Council spokesperson said Cobh nomination reflects reflects the town&#8217;s impressive track record in the Tidy Towns competition. Cobh earned its first Gold Medal in 2015 and has retained Gold status every year since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In 2021, it was named Ireland&#8217;s Tidiest Large Town..<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cobh was nominated for the competition by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, following the town\u2019s impressive track record in the Tidy Towns competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judging will take place during summer 2027, when an international jury will visit Cobh to assess a range of criteria including environmental management, community involvement, sustainability initiatives and the overall quality of life within the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The results will be announced at an international awards ceremony later next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe look forward to supporting Cobh as it prepares to represent Ireland on the European stage,\u201d said the mayor of the county of Cork Bernard Moynihan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cobh has been selected to represent Ireland at the one of Europe&#8217;s most prestigious community and environmental competitions.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[781,187774,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-583948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-cork-news","tag-echo-instagram","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116914552016212713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}