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Applications invited for Roscommon Visual Artists Forum Award 2017

Roscommon County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce the Roscommon Visual Artists Forum Award 2017. The Roscommon Visual Artists Forum, supported by the Roscommon County Council Arts Office, was established to provide visual artists based in or from the county with a platform to develop their practice through professional training, events, talks and exhibitions

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St Barrys GAA News update September 18th

Club News, Local News, Tarmonbarry Scramogue

U16’s Bow out: St Barrys/Kilglass 4-9 Western Gaels 4-12 The St Barrys/Kilglass U16 Boys bowed out of the D4 U16 Championship at the hand of of a better balanced Western Gaels team in Boyle. This was a game that swung to and fro, with the Gaels opening up leads and the Barrys/Kilglass lads closing the

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Roscommon GAA Results week ending September 18th

Gaelic Games, Sport

Below are the Roscommon GAA Results from Adult to underage level in Football and Hurling for the week ending September 18th. Kepak Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final Padraig Pearses 1-17 Four Roads 2-14 Note: Roscommon GAA had announced that the Replay was due to be played on October 1st but that is subject to change due

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Roscommon and District Football League round-up September 18th

Soccer, Sport

Vincent Brooks looks back on the weekend’s action from the Roscommon and District Football League and FAI Junior Cup. Ballymoe FC are the outright leaders of the Premier Division of the Roscommon and District Football League following comfortable 3 – 2 win over title holders Castlerea Celtic at Castlerea. Peter Farrell gave Castlerea Celtic an

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Tulsk GAA update September 18th

Club News, Local News, Tulsk Castleplunkett Kilmurray

Fiver Friday Congratulations to the winners of our Fiver Friday promotion: Adam Crann €1,000 and Matt O’Connell Two tickets to the All-Ireland Football Final. Thank you to all who entered. Tulsk V Oran Good luck to our Tulsk Fuels FloGas sponsored Intermediate team and manager Alan Burns in the Intermediate Football Championship semi-final on Sunday.

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Cloonfad United news update September 18th

Ballinlough Cloonfad Granlahan, Club News, Local News

Cloonfad United 3-0 Glen Celtic Cloonfad United made it two wins from two attempts with a hard fought 3-0 over Glen Celtic on Friday night. We took the lead on 43 mins when Andy Glennon drilled in a low cross to the far post and Cian Ruane dashed in to open the scoring. The introduction

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Roscommon connections on All-Ireland Final Day

Gaelic Games, Sport

Sadly Roscommon teams are not involved in today’s All-Ireland Football Final but there are a number of other Roscommon natives taking to the field in Croke Park today. Ballaghaderreen’s Andy Moran plays a full forward for Mayo with David Drake and Barry Solan also involved with the team. Referee Paddy Neilan, a member of the

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Bank of Ireland Agri Pulse shows 1 in 4 farmers expect to increase output

Farming

Four in ten (43%) farmers plan to expand their farms over the next one to three years, according to a new survey. A similar number (44%) indicated that they would prefer the farm to remain the same size, and 13% intending to scale down. The research was conducted for Bank of Ireland’s ‘Agri Pulse’, a

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Forgotten Patriot: Douglas Hyde profiled in new book

News, Things to do

In 1938, Roscommon man Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland. He made the office an inclusive one and determined to be a president for all the people of Ireland. The accepted wisdom is that Hyde’s transition to the presidency was a seamless process, but Forgotten Patriot, a new book by historian Brian Murphy,

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Insurance Practitioner Apprenticeship IT Sligo

Insurance Apprentices begin landmark education journey at IT Sligo

Education, News

Ireland’s first ever Insurance Apprentices have started a ground-breaking Level 8 degree programme of study at IT Sligo. The new Insurance Practitioner Apprenticeship is a statutory apprenticeship, which has been developed jointly by the Industry’s education body, The Insurance Institute and Institute of Technology, Sligo. It was formally launched by the Minister for Education and

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IDA Jobs show Roscommon has been “severely neglected” – Eugene Murphy

Current Affairs, News

Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon/Galway Eugene Murphy says the 2015 county breakdown on IDA Ireland job figures debunks the Government’s claim that it is spreading FDI jobs fairly across the whole country. “In a recent Parliamentary Question reply that my party colleague Niall Collins TD received from Minister Mitchell O’Connor, the county by county data

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Buckley and Carty start for Connacht Rugby

Rugby, Sport

Once again two Roscommon men feature in the Connacht Rugby team to face Zebre in the first away game of the season. Head coach Pat Lam has made six personnel changes to the side that lined out against Ospreys at the Sportsground last weekend. Picture Credit: ©INPHO/Donall Farmer Up front, Denis Buckley returns from injury

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Minister Denis Naughten to speak at Facebook’s Boost Your Business Event

Business, Current Affairs, News

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Denis Naughten TD will speak about the importance of delivering high speed broadband to support small businesses during a fireside chat at the Facebook Boost Your Business event in association with Galway Chamber of Commerce. The event, which takes place in the Wellpark Retail Centre in Galway next

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Roscommon and District Football League Fixtures w/e September 16

Soccer, Sport

This weekend’s Roscommon and District Football League is across three days and four competitions as the Umbro FAI Junior Cup also kicks off. Friday September 16th The Herald RDFL Premier Division Castlerea Celtic V Ballymoe FC, 8pm Norios Takeaway RDFL Division One Cloonfad United V Glen Celtic, 8pm Fixtures Saturday 17th September Norios Takeaway RDFL

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Plenty of things to do in Roscommon for Culture Night

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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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