The Connacht Rugby squad will be short a number of players for Saturday’s Guinness PRO12 opener with Glasgow Warriors at the Sportsground. In the front row Nathan White is continuing his recovery from a head injury arising from concussion sustained last season. Academy prop Conan O’Donnell is nearing a return as he continues to rehab …
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Roscommon Farmers are paying below the national average for Agricultural Diesel and Kerosene according to the IFA’s quarterly fuel price survey,published earlier. IFA’s Inputs Project Team Chairman John Coughlan has reported broadly unchanged fuel prices in the most recent quarterly survey published by Association. The results show agricultural diesel now costs on average 60.50 cent …
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Roscommon County Council is to receive over €600,000 under the Rural Water Programme while Galway is to receive €2.6m local Minister Denis Naughten has confirmed. “The funding is being provided to the Councils under the Department of Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government’s Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018,” explained Minister Naughten. “Administration of the funding …
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Michael Fitzmaurice TD has called on the Minister for State John Halligan to stand aside if the current issues regarding School Transport are not resolved. Deputy Fitzmaurice said “Last week I raised the issue of problems associated with school bus transport, and this week, as the school year starts up again, the situation seems to …
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Kilbride 3-08 Strokestown 1-10 Huge congratulations to our Senior ladies team on their tremendous victory over Strokestown in the County Senior Semi Final played on Saturday evening in Ballyleague. Kilbride got off to a good start and were 1-02 to 1 point ahead with 8 minutes gone on the clock . Despite having lots of …
Boyle GAA Lotto Donal O’Connor and Rachel Lavin were €20 winners at our most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in Wynne’s Bar. The house prize was won by Niall Toolan. The jackpot wasn’t won at it will be at €1,300 for next Saturday night’s draw which will be held in Creighton’s Bar. Team …
St Michaels 5-14 Clann na nGael B 3-12 It proved to be a successful week on the playing field for our teams with the most important win coming from the Intermediates when they beat Clann na Gael at Enfield on Saturday evening in the fourth round of the championship, however both teams must meet again …
Senior Championship: St Faithleachs 2-09 Strokestown 0-10 Team: A. Manning, B. Scally, S. Ormsby, M. Cox, J. Walsh, D. Foley, D. Harrison, B. Murtagh, D. Rooney, K. Farrell, C. Murtagh, S. O’Grady, D. Murtagh, D. Hussey, A. Dooney. Sub : J.Hussey. Following their win we now play Boyle in the quarter final on the 11th …
Adult championship So just to clarify after the weekend’s action, our wonderful Senior Ladies are through to the County Final against Kilbride on 17th September. Our brilliant Junior team are through to quarter finals which are due to take place the weekend of the 10th-11th September. And last but by no means least our fantastic …
The final round of games in the Roscommon GAA Senior, Intermediate and Junior A Football Championships took place over the weekend and there were a few surprises along the way. Hodson Bay Hotel Group Senior Football Championship Reigning Champions Clann na nGael are out of the Championship after being defeated by Boyle on a scoreline …
A brief round-up of the most read Roscommon news stories on roscommondaily.com during the past seven days as well as some which you may have missed. Our Five Most Read Roscommon News Headlines #5 Section of R367 road south of Castleplunkett to close for 5 weeks. #4 Our interview with Roscommon Rose of Tralee contestant …
McGarry Trophy The McGarry Trophy played on Sunday 21st August saw the biggest turnout of Members for a weekly competition, (outside Presidents Day & Captains) this season. Top of the list playing in his first McGarry trophy was Keith Hogg with a great score of 63, four ahead of Fiachra Neary on 67, with Seamus …
Fianna Fail TD Eugene Murphy has re-issued an invitation to the Minister for Health Simon Harris to meet with members of the Roscommon Hospital Action Committee in relation to the development of a Rehabilitation Unit at Roscommon University Hospital. Deputy Murphy said he was “extremely disappointed” that Minister Harris had turned down the request to …
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Michael Fitzmaurice TD has called on two Government agencies to “positively discriminate” in favour of rural Ireland when sourcing locations for future investment. The call came following the news that VistaMed, a global supplier of medical devices currently, is investing €10 Million in it’s facility in Carrick on Shannon. They currently employ over 300 people …
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Michael Glaveys 2-5 Western Gaels 0-20 Hard luck to the Senior Mens team who were defeated by Western Gaels on a 2-05 to 0-20 scoreline in Castlerea on Sunday last. After a straight rise from Junior to Senior championship in 2 consecutive years they will now face into a relegation final against near neighbours St …
