Updated on Monday at 12pm Minister of State for the OPW and Flood Relief Sean Canney is to visit areas affected by Flooding in Roscommon and Leitrim today, Monday September 19th. He is scheduled to visit a number of areas in Roscommon to view flood relief efforts and to speak to those affected. The areas […]
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Junior B Championship: Elphin B 5-9 Oran B 1-9 Our Juniors made it five wins from five in the Championship, defeating Oran B by 5-9 to 1-9. With a number of players missing the panel was streched to the bare minimum of 15 players, everyone of whom played with great heart. In particular, there were
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Results and Fixtures The Super Valu boy’s minor team have qualified for the division three championship final. The u14 boy’s have qualified for the division three championship final. The u14 girl’s were defeated by St Brigid’s in the division one championship quarter final last Thursday in O’Rourke Park. This completes all ladies fixtures for the
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Plans are well advanced for the second running of the Darren McGlynn Memorial Tractor Run, which takes place on Sunday next, September 25th. The event takes place from the McGlynn home in Cloonfour, located mid way between Tarmonbarry and Rooskey. It is open to both vintage and modern tractors. The Route Tractors will travel in
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Buccaneers RFC made a very disappointing start to this season’s Ulster Bank League Division 1B when they went down 35-13 to Ballynahinch at Ballymacarn Park on Saturday. On a beautiful sunny afternoon, it took this game some time to catch fire before Hinch, making fewer errors than the visitors, forged a bonus point victory. Their
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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