All-Ireland Club Semi-Final. All roads lead to Cusack Park, Mullingar on Sunday next when the Senior team take on the current All-Ireland Junior Club champions, Johnstownbridge from Kildare at 2.45 p.m. This is the team that defeated the Club in 2015 but the team has been strengthened this year due to the return from injury …
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The 2016 SuperValu Tidy Towns winners were announced at a ceremony in Dublin Castle today (Monday). Skerries in County Dublin was named Ireland’s Tidiest town but there was plenty to cheer about for the Roscommon Tidy Towns Committees. In the Ireland’s Tidiest Village category Castlecoote scored 324 points, just two behind category winner Birdhill from …
Tremane Hurling Club honoured it’s 1976 Connacht Club Senior Championship winning team at the Club’s Dinner Dance last night. The event was held in The Bridge House, Athleague and also present on the night were three players from the 1956 Team which would the Club’s first County Championship. Special Guest on the night was GAA …
Tremane Hurling Club will honour it’s 1976 Connacht Club Senior Championship winning team at the Club’s Dinner Dance this Friday, September 23rd. The event will be held in The Bridge House, Athleague with proceedings getting under way at 8pm with a Three Course Meal. The panel will then receive a presentation from the Special Guest, …
Culture Night 2016 takes place tomorrow, Friday September 16th, and there are lots of things to do in Roscommon with something to suit everyone. Music Spells Rum & Black Club, Ballaghaderreen is the venue for a West African traditional drumming workshop with Slí na Croí – Malinké Music of Upper Guinea, West Africa, from 8.30 …
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Michael Fitzmaurice TD says he has been left “dismayed and very disappointed” over the lack of development in the Draft Flood Management Plans. The Independent TD said “I attended the CFRAM public consultations in both Roscommon Town and Athleague on Wednesday and I have to say that I was dismayed and very disappointed as what …
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Senior championship: Athleague 4-7 St Dominics 1-6 The Second round of the Senior Championship took place on Saturday evening last when the Club travelled to Knockcroghery to take on the home side, St. Dominic’s and came away with a hard earned victory. Their final game in the round robin section of the Championship takes place …
The Office of Public Works are hosting a number of local events to promote the consultation of the Draft Flood Risk Management Plans (Draft FRMPs) for County Roscommon. Picture Credit: Defence Forces Press Office On Tuesday next, September 6th, Áras an Chontae, Carrick on Shannon will showcase the plans for Cortober, as well as Carrick …
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Senior Championship: Athleague 0-14 Four Roads 0-10 Well done to the senior team who were victorious in the first round of the championship on Saturday evening in Four Roads. The girls played very well on the evening and will now play St. Dominics in Knockcrohery, 3rd September(Saturday) at 6pm. All support greatly appreciated. New Jerseys …
National Heritage Week takes place from August 20th to 28th and there is lots of things to do in Roscommon during this time including in Athleague, Fuerty and Castlecoote. Saturday August 20th from 12PM to 5PM and Sunday August 21st from 11:30AM to 5PM An Exhibition of Maps, Photos, Artefacts & Memorabilia will be held …
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Michael Fitzmaurice TD has called for practical action to be taken now to avoid another winter of flooding throughout the region. Picture Credit: Irish Defence Forces The call comes following the recent publication of the River Shannon Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management report and meetings regarding on-going flooding issues in Roscommon. Incidentally, the comments …
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Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran has announced a number of diocesan appointments and parish priest transfers affecting parishes in County Roscommon. Very Rev Canon Eugene McLoughlin, who is retiring as Parish Priest VF of Roscommon, is set to be the Administrator of Athleague and Fuerty; a position which became vacant on the death of Very …
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For the first time in nearly 400 years the Ford crossing point between Fuerty and Castlecoote house, has been bridged and all going to plan, visitors to the Percy French Festival in July will be the first people to cross the river Suck at that point, since retreating Jacobite soldiers crossed in 1691. Picture Credit: …
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Jane Clarke, who is originally from Fuerty and now lives in Co Wicklow, is one of two Irish writers who has been nominated for the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. Picture Credit: bloodaxebooks.com The prize is awarded annually to a book of the highest literary merit – fiction, non-fiction or poetry – that …
County Skills Final in Athleague Well done to Jade McCormack who came 2nd in the county skills which took place in Athleague on Friday evening. Well done to Tara Naughton and Ciara Carr who also took part. Senior Spring League The Senior team started the league campaign with a victory over Four Roads on Saturday …
