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Castlerea

Castlerea school scoop top accolade at the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards

St. Michael’s Special School, Castlerea has been revealed as a winner at the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards. The winners were announced at a special awards ceremony at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre yesterday Thursday, May 5th hosted by RTE Two Tube presenters Bláthnaid Treacy and Stephen Byrne. The Castlerea school was awarded

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N61 Tulsk Heritage Week

N61 set to close between Tulsk and Four Mile House for Survey

A stretch of the N61, between the N5 junction at Tulsk Cross and the R368 Strokestown Road at Fourmilehouse, will be closed by Roscommon County Council next week to facilitate surveying works. The work is scheduled to take place from Monday to Friday ahead of an application by the Council to Transport Infrastructure Ireland for

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irish water

Water Smart Maria collects top prize in the region

Maria Dignam from Glanduff NS, Kiltoom recently took the top prize in the Connacht/Ulster region of the Green-Schools Irish Water Poster Competition in the senior primary school category. Maria was presented with her prize at a ceremony in Dublin yesterday Wednesday. Picture Credit: Mark Stedman, Photocall Ireland This year’s Poster Competition theme was ‘Be Water

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Roscommon

An Alternative Eurovision Night with a familiar Roscommon face!

Roscommon town native, and performance artist Anthony Keigher aka XNTHONY, takes to the Roscommon Arts Centre stage with his backing singers, The Penny Slots, this Saturday May 7th at 9pm with their hilarious show ‘DOUZE’. In 2015 Pop Star XNTHONY set out for Eurovision glory. Armed with as many fizzy pop songs as he could

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St. John’s Parish Heritage Group host Fr. Kelly Memorial Lecture

St. John’s Parish Heritage Group are hosting a talk on Memorial Art on Headstones in Kilcommon Ancient Graveyard in St. John’s Community Centre, Lecarrow on Wednesday May 11th at 8pm. This informative illustrated lecture will be delivered by Mary B. Timoney M.A. & M.I.A.I. Author of “Had Me Made”, study of headstone art in County

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