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Roscommon Schools receive funding through Summer Works Scheme

Education, Elphin, Local News, Roscommon town Kilteevan

Elphin Community College and Roscommon Community College have been allocated funding to carry out Electrical upgrades under the Department of Education’s Summer Works Scheme. The two Schools are among 62 Post Primary and 135 Primary Schools throughout Ireland to benefit from the first allocation of funding. Speaking about the announcement Minister O’Sullivan stated: “Of the

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Seanad Election Count updates

Current Affairs, News

This post was updated throughout the count and featured the progress of all the Roscommon connections involved in elections to the 25th Seanad. Here’s a report on how the counts finished. Latest update:Thursday at 3pm Roscommon’s interest in the voting stage has now ended. It will be interesting to see if anyone from Roscommon is

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Carrick Golf Club News update April 28th

Club News, Local News

Carrick Golf Club 4Some Qualifier The Cut for The Club 4Some Qualifier played on Sat 16 & Sun 17 last came at 31 points with five teams on that mark, unfortunately for Liam Bruen & Chris Lowe their 31 was the one to miss out, last pair in The Barber & Liam Quinn and their

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IFA Rule change may solve Connacht Chair issue

Farming

A rule change at this week’s IFA AGM could pave the way for a new Connacht Regional Chairman to be elected soon. The rule in question required that a candidate for the office of President, Deputy President or Regional Chairman be a Full-Time Farmer however following the vote the Regional Chairman has been deleted from

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Jack Carty returns to Connacht starting line-up

Rugby, Sport

Kiltoom’s Jack Carty and Galway’s Tiernan O’Halloran both return from injury to start in a back line that also sees the introduction of wing Fionn Carr and scrum half John Cooney. Rory Parata is named to start in an Academy midfield partnership with Peter Robb. Overall Pat Lam has made 10 personnel changes to the

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IT Sligo Engineering Expo To Showcase A New World Of Possibilities

News, Things to do

The diversity and range of career possibilities in engineering will be showcased at a special interactive event for students and jobseekers at IT Sligo on Thursday May 5th. The Engineering Expo is a free public event, bringing together leading national and international engineering practitioners along with training expertise in the sector, and schools from across

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Boyle Golf Club News update April 28th

Boyle, Club News, Local News

Boyle Golf Club Team defeated Commiserations to the All-Ireland Fourball Interclub team who were narrowly beaten by Ballinamore last Friday on a scoreline of 3 matches to 2. Results Last Sunday saw the annual Voucher Competition take place. Well done to Sean Heslin who won the men’s voucher with a score of 63 nett off

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Live export of Irish Cattle held up by Visa delays says Michael Fitzmaurice

Current Affairs, News

Michael Fitzmaurice says that the provision of visas for vets from Turkey and other countries is holding up the live export of Irish Cattle and the situation “needs to be addressed immediately” in order to help trade. “I am aware that markets for live exports of Irish cattle in Turkey and Egypt are ready to

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First meeting of Roscommon-East Galway Carers Support Network

Health, News

The first meeting of the Roscommon-East Galway Carers Support Network is set to take place in Hannon’s Hotel, Roscommon town on Wednesday next May 4th at 7pm. A number of volunteers have come together to establish a Carers Support Network in the area where it is estimated some 4,000 Carers provide essential home care services

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Farming bodies react to delays with National Broadband Plan

Farming, News

Farming bodies have reacted angrily to the news that the Department of Communications’ is experiencing delays in the bidding process for the National Broadband Plan. The National Broadband Plan had promised to deliver subsidised modern Internet to 750,000 rural homes and businesses by 2020. The awarding of the contracts was set to take place in

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Clann na nGael News update April 28th

Club News, Local News, Monksland Drum Cornafulla Bealnamulla

Under 16 GIRLS MAKE IT 3-IN-A-ROW! Clann na nGael 9-12 Padraig Pearses 1-05 Our under 16 girls played their final on Sunday 24th April in Kiltoom against Padraig Pearses. The panel is sponsored by Mike Kenny Car Sales. The Clann na nGael girls knew that it wasn’t going to be an easy game. It was

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And they’re (nearly) off at Roscommon Races

Other sports, Sport

The first white flag of the new season at Roscommon Racecourse will be raised on Monday week, May 9th where the first race takes place at 5:40pm. Picture Credit: Healy Racing The race committee are constantly looking to improve the racing experience for punters and upgrading facilities. The build up to the start of the

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Denis Naughten welcomes “Major step forward on bail monitoring”

Current Affairs, News

Local TD Denis Naughten has welcomed the decision to introduce a new bail supervision scheme for young offenders, which will not only keep young people out of prison but is also a major step forward in further strengthening the monitoring of all those on bail. This bail supervision scheme, which will be piloted in the

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Final call for Roscommon GAA Gaeltacht Grant Competition

News

Roscommon GAA is issuing a final call for entries to their annual Gaeltacht Grant Competition which forms part of their promotion of the Irish language. Applications are invited from full time secondary school students living in County Roscommon and each grant is worth €200. It should be noted that successful candidates from 2014 and 2015

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“Tackling Farm Income Crisis my priority” says new IFA President

Farming

In his inaugural address to the 61st Annual General Meeting of the Irish Farmers Association at the Irish Farm Centre in Dublin earlier today (Wednesday), IFA President Joe Healy said tackling the Farm Income Crisis will be his number one priority. He said, “50 years after the Farmers’ Rights Campaign, IFA still has a really

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