Here’s a lovely bit of community spirit.

Bradley’s Off-Licence on North Main Street is serving up free coffees to volunteers on Tuesday, April 29th from 8am until 1pm.

It’s all part of a local drive to support the Cleaning and Greening Street Initiative, to refresh and revitalise Cork city streets — starting in this neck of the woods.

Organised by Cork Business Association (CBA), in partnership with Cork City Council and working closely with local businesses on the street and CBA volunteers, the initiative will focus on deep cleaning, power washing, removing algae, planting, painting, with a drive to improving the overall streetscape.

CBA will provide cleaning supplies, gloves, litter pickers, brushes, and paint to support the works. Painting and cleaning contractors will also be on site to assist.

This initiative follows a visual “Clutter and Quality Audit” of the street, identifying short, medium, and long-term actions to enhance the area. The audit identified a range of actions to improve the area — from clearing dirt and debris, to addressing unsightly wiring, redundant poles, outdated signage, redundant phone boxes, broken lights, and anything in need of repair or replacement.

On Tuesday morning, volunteers and business owners will join forces to clean litter and weeds, install new plant baskets, paint poles and gates, wash windows and facades, and bring new life to 14 electricity boxes through a creative street mural project led by artist Alan Hurley.

The morning will begin with a light breakfast at St. Peter’s, kindly provided by Centra, with Fast Al’s Pizza ensuring volunteers are well fed later on.

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