Picture Credit: ©INPHO/James Crombie Roscommon Camogie Church Gate Collection The Annual Camogie Church Gate Collection takes place this year on 11th & 12th June. Beattie Engineering Sponsored Under 14 League The 3rd Round of the Under 14 League takes place this evening (Tuesday) 24th May with Athleague at home to Tulsk and Oran at home
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Trident Swimming Club members Diarmuid Sutton and Luke Weaver travelled to Limerick at the weekend to take part in the combined Connacht & Munster Long Course Championships with the top swimmers from both provinces competing against one another. Sutton was up first, followed shortly after by Weaver, with both boys competing in the 200 metre
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Carrick RFC will launch our annual Tag Rugby event this Thursday, May 26th at 7.30pm at our grounds on the Castlecarra Road, Carrick on Shannon. Tag Rugby is non contact game which caters for all abilities, so if you are looking for a way to keep fit and make new friends, come along and join
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Clann na nGael host 20k Drop Our big club fundraiser, the 20k Drop, takes place this Saturday night in Athlone Springs. Doors open at 8.00pm and tickets are €15 each or 4 for €50. Aside from the fundraising, this really is a great nights entertainment and we hope everyone enjoys it. Don’t miss it. Many
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Monster Thank You Roscommon Gaels would like to give a huge thank you to all who attended the auction on Saturday last. A great day for the club and a massive effort was put in by a large number of club members. It is impossible to mention each person individually but in particular, thank you
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Congratulations The club extends its congratulations to Seanie MacDermott who made his 150th appearance in a Roscommon Jersey on Sunday last. A fantastic personal achievement for Seanie who has given a large part of his life to his club and county and Western Gaels are extremely proud to call him as one our club men.
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Michael Fitzmaurice TD is calling on the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed to extend the deadline for the sowing of “wild bird cover” which is one of the elements of the GLAS scheme. “With the weather the way it has been over the past few months, and I realise there is a pick up in
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Four Roads Gaelic4Girls The Gaelic4Girls programme continues this Thursday in the Community Sports Park from 6.45pm. The programme got off to a great start with large numbers attending. One of the main aims is that each child has fun and gets an introduction to football in a non-competitive environment. There will also be an opportunity
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Results and Fixtures The minor team were defeated by Oran in the division three league final last Friday in Oran, see report elsewhere. The u14 boy’s were defeated by St Michael’s last Thursday in O’Rourke Park, this completes their league programme. They will now compete in the division four championship. The u12 boy’s were defeated
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This summer’s redevelopment of the much talked about playing surface at Dr Hyde Park is set to follow the lead of Croke Park by laying rolls of pre-grown turf on top of a state of the art sand based sub-surface. Despite being more expensive than the traditional method of growing a playing field from seed,
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Michael Glaveys representative players Congrats to Darren, Gary, the Roscommon team & management on their comprehensive win over Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Championship Quarter-Final in Carrick on Shannon on Sunday last. Next up is Sligo in the semi final on June 12th. Hard luck to Joanne, Francie and the Connacht Ladies Inter-provincial Team who
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Results and Fixtures Hard luck to the U14 team who lost to Oran last Wednesday evening. Their next game is this Wednesday, details will be posted on Ballinameen Ladies GAA Facebook page. The U12 championship game which was scheduled for Sunday the 22nd of May will now take place on Friday the 17th of June
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A fine attacking performance saw Roscommon’s Daire Feeley jump from 78th to 58th place in the General Classification after finishing 18th amongst the large pack on stage two, which began in Westmeath this morning and concluded 183 kilometres down south to Charleville. Picture Credit ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy After about 25km of racing, King of the Mountains
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A Discussion paper prepared by the Housing Agency for the Oireachtas Housing and Homelessness Committee has shown that over 20% of houses in Roscommon are currently vacant. The calculations, which include flats and apartments but exclude Holiday Homes, show that the problem is particularly bad in the north of the county – see graphic above.
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Two County Roscommon Musical Societies have been nominated for Association of Irish Musical Societies Awards. Boyle Musical Society production of The Wizard of Oz has received four nominations – – Damien Regan & Clive Flynn of Boyle Musical Society have been nominated for “Best Stage Management” (The Margaret Doherty Trophy) for their work on The
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