We Are The Champions

The sun always shines…

n truth, no one was really interested in entering Greystones into this year’s Word’s Most Liveable Community competition.

We had won it way back in 2008, at the inaugural ceremony in China, and hey, they probably weren’t going to give it to the same town twice.

Besides, with the jetlag of all these Covid lockdowns weighing ever-harder on our shoulders, working up the energy and enthusiasm to sell the wonders of Greystones to an international panel of highly-qualified and enormously critical judges just wasn’t anyone’s idea of fun.

Or common sense, for that matter, since it had been over a decade since our last win.

Young Crean

The one exception in the town being Cllr Mags Crean, who put Greystones forward for LivCom 2021 back in May. And whaddaya know, the town only went and got shortlisted.

Which is when the likes of the new and improved Greystones Town Team and other equally community-minded folk turned the campaign all the way up to 11, meeting daily as they pulled together facts, figures, folk tales and images, and created a spiffing video too.

And whaddaya know, this afternoon, the LivCom committee announced that Greystones had won the gold this year.

BOOM!

We’ll have more details later – including a list of all those fine people who wowed those judges – but for now, let’s all bask in the fact that Greystones is officially The World’s Most Liveable Community.

Congrats to Mags and all the team, and to everyone in the town who made this award possible. Even you.