Mayor's Mission for Limerick Tidy Towns Groups

The Mayor of the City and County of Limerick laid down a challenge to tidy towns groups across Limerick with the mission of creating a short video of your ‘PLACE’.

The Mayor's Mission is now closed for entries.

Groups who entered Tidy Towns in 2019 and or 2021 are eligible to enter the Mayor’s Mission.

To enter a group must create a video suitable for use on social media. The video should be 90 seconds or less and showcase your town or village along with a minimum of five categories in Tidy Towns.

The newly created video should be an invitation to visit your ‘PLACE’ and ideally involve young people in the making of it.

The Mayor's Mission is now closed for entries. Winners will be announced before the end of November.

Terms & Conditions

  1. Entrants into the Competition shall be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions.
  2. Entrants must have applied for the National TidyTowns Competition in 2021.
  3. Amateur entries only please.
  4. No Drone footage- taking images with a drone requires a licence in built-up areas.
  5. To enter the Competition, you must submit one:
    • private video link (ideally vimeo) which depicts your “PLACE” in a positive light to sinead.mcdonnell@limerick.ie
    • #Limerick TidyTowns Social Media Video Mission should be in the subject bar.
  6. If you have any questions about how to enter or in connection with the Competition, please e-mail sinead.mcdonnell@limerick.ie with #Limerick TidyTowns Social Media Video Mission in the subject line.
  7. Videos should be in landscape format.
  8. You are responsible for the cost (if any) of sending your competition entry to us.
  9. The video must not have been published previously in any other publication or website.
  10. The closing date for entry is Friday the 29th October at 5pm. Limerick City and County Council reserves the right in its absolute discretion to extend the closing date.
  11. By submitting an entry to the Competition, You grant Limerick City and County Council:
    • Permission for your entry to be published on Limerick City and County Council websites including but not limited to www.limerick.ie and
    • Limerick City and County Council non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual licence (with a right to sub-license) to use, republish, edit and/or modify your Competition entry in any/all media (including in electronic format, hard copy and in Limerick City and County Council publications) for purposes connected with the Competition.
    • The right to use your name or groups name and county of residence for the sole purpose of identifying you as the author of your entry and/or as a winner of the Competition.
  12. You also hereby waive all your moral rights in your entry. Notwithstanding the afore-going waiver, in order to use entries as intended and advised in these Terms and Conditions, (i) Limerick City and County Council may need to modify entries, including but not limited to resizing, cropping or colour adjustment as necessary, provided that Limerick City and County Council shall endeavour in undertaking such modifications to maintain the integrity of your entry as originally created; and (ii) Limerick City and County Council shall provide a named credit for all entries.
  13. You own the copyright to your Competition entry as its author. Your entry must be your own work, must not be copied, must not contain any third-party materials and/or content that you do not have permission to use, must not include any trademarks, and must not show inappropriate or dangerous behaviour, or otherwise be obscene, defamatory, distasteful, offensive, or in breach of any applicable law or regulation, or in breach of any confidentiality obligations owed by you to third parties. If Limerick City and County Council has reason to believe, your entry is not your own work or otherwise breaches these Terms and Conditions, then Limerick City and County Council may not consider it and may disqualify it.
  14. Entrants confirm that each individual person whose image is featured in the Competition entry has given consent for the use of his/her image in connection with this Competition and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Where an individual whose image is featured in a Competition entry is aged less than 18 years, the entrant confirms that the parent or guardian of that individual has given the relevant consent.
  15. If the photograph is of children under the age of 18, the photographer must have received prior approval from the child’s/ children’s parents/ guardians.
  16. Limerick City and County Council together with nominated judges will choose/award winning entries. Judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  17. When choosing the winner and runners up, the Judges will adhere to the marking scheme below.
  18. The prizes will include a 1st (€1000) 2nd (€ 700) and 3rd (€500) prize. There may be additional special merit prizes (€250) depending on the numbers and quality of the entries.
  Maximum Marks  
Creativity 15  
Covering a minimum of five Tidy Towns Categories 20 This includes 1 mark for each TT category included plus judge’s discretion
Inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 20  
Watchability/ Entertainment 15  
Volunteer Effort 10  
Appeal of Video as an invitation to visit Limerick 15  
Involvement in under 25 age group in the making of the video 05