Pride of Place
IPB Pride of Place, in association with Co-operation Ireland, is a prestigious all-island competition with entries from the 32 counties competing for the coveted Winner or Runner-up prize in a variety of categories.
Every county council / local authority in Ireland and Northern Ireland can nominate a maximum of three entries, which showcase exceptional efforts made by communities.
The purpose of Pride of Place is to acknowledge the work being done every day by communities all over the island of Ireland. Since it started 21 years ago the judges have met hundreds of thousands of people. The competition is based on communities demonstrating directly to the judges their pride in their place through presentations, exhibitions of community activities and culture and a tour of the area highlighting the aspects of which they are particularly proud.
In 2024, Leitrim was represented by Leitrim Calling and The Leitrim Sustainable Agriculture Group & Ulster Wildlife Farmers' Group Fermanagh. There was great excitement at the awards ceremony in Monahgan, with the announcement that The Leitrim Sustainable Agriculture Group & Ulster Wildlife Farmers' Group Fermanagh were a special award winner.
Check out all the 2024 winners in the awards gallery here.
Previous Nominees
In 2023, Leitrim was represented by Carrigallen, Eslin and Kiltyclogher. Pictured are Leitrim’s 2023 nominees and winners
In 2022, Leitrim was represented by; Drumshanbo in the category “Population under 1,000” and Rossinver in the “Community Resilience” category.
In 2021, Leitrim County Council nominated: Cloone Tidy Towns/ Bothar na Naomh in the Community Wellbeing Initiative category, and Tullaghan in the Islands and Coastal Communities category. Due to Covid restrictions, the judging was done virtually and the Awards Ceremony was deferred until May 2022. Tullaghan won their category: “Islands & Coastal Communities”. A great achievement for the county with the shortest coastline in Ireland! Congratulations to both groups.
In 2020 Townspark, Carrick on Shannon won their category Urban Neighbourhood. This was a fantastic achievement!
Dromahair also represented Leitrim in the Category Population 300-1,000.
In 2019, Fenagh Village were Runners-up in the population 0-300 category, Ballinamore Tourism in the Tourism Initiative category, and Drumkeeran Friendship Club in the Age Friendly Initiative category.
In 2018 Comhairle na nÓg Liatroma won the "Single Issue" Category with their powerful campaign “Use Your Brain Not Your Fists”. You can watch their video and also watch when it was featured on RTE.
Tullaghan represented us in the "Islands & Coastal Communities" Category and put our 3 miles of coastline firmly on the map! They went on to win this category in 2022.
In 2017, Bornacoola were Runners up in the 0-300 population category Also nominated were Carigallen in the 300-1,000 population category and Manorhamilton under the Creative Place category.
In 2016, Leitrim won 2 awards:
- Carrick on Shannon was runner up in category 4, for areas with populations between 2,000 and 5,000.
- Drumshanbo Community Council was runner up in category 7, for Community Business Enterprise Initiatives. Rossinver was also nominated.