Children at Limerick’s Gaelscoil Sáirséal have come up with two apt names for Limerick City and County Council’s new Active Travel cycle lane sweepers. It follows a naming competition run earlier this year.
The sweepers will be known as ‘Speedy Wheely’, one of the names put forward by sixth class pupils, and ‘Sweep de Limerick’, one of the entries from children in fourth class.
Hundreds of pupils took part in the naming competition and a panel of judges sifted through all the entries earlier in the year before selecting the two winning names.
The children were able to see the sweepers up close with their names emblazoned on the front when the two sweepers visited Gaelscoil Sáirséal earlier today (Tuesday 21 June 2022).
Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Cllr Daniel Butler said: “I want to congratulate the children of Gaelscoil Sáirséal for coming up with two brilliant names for our two new mini-sweepers. It’s great to see such positive engagement from our younger generation with the work that Active Travel is doing across Limerick.”
Sean McGlynn, Senior Engineer with Active Travel said: “As one of the judges, I was really impressed by the creativity and imagination shown by all the children and schools that took part in the competition. We tasked the classes with coming up with names that had a cycling theme. ‘Speedy Wheely’ and ‘Sweep de Limerick’ won over all three judges on the day.”
The new sweepers, funded by the National Transport Authority, are being deployed across Limerick as part of a regular schedule of cleaning and maintenance of our cycle network.