Please support our Traders of the Day 16th June
Joe Simon Building Supplies : Kelly’s Londis : Marians Fashions : Sean Carty Car Sales : Stewarts Oil : The Moorings Restaurant : The Stairs Gastro Pub
Roscommon win by 4 points Wahooooo – What A Match !!!
Boyle GAA – Féile Peile na nÓg 2019
The Féile panel and mentors with Alan Cooney (Cooney motors Limited) for a number of years have kindly sponsored tops and bags for our great Féile groups
Saturday 15th June: Launch of Boyle’s programme of events for Féile Peile na nÓg 2019 and sponsors Cooney Motors Limited.
• Féile Peile na nÓg is being hosted in the province of Connacht from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th June 2019 for under 14 boys and girls football teams. 850 games will be played over the weekend in 200 venues between 350 teams from GAA Clubs across Ireland and abroad.
• Boyle GAA Club will host a team from Gaultier GAA Club, Co Waterford who will stay with the u14 boys’ families.
Boyle teams had great success recently in 2018 and 2016, reaching the Cup semi finals both years.
• Friday 28th will see Division 4 – Group A – Round 1 matches in Abbey Park Boyle between Boyle, Gaultier, Whitehall Colmcille’s and Western Gaels from 4.45pm. Boyle GAA Club will be a hive of activity as we welcome players and spectators to the grounds for a great evening’s football. All welcome.
Matches are open to the public. Parking will be in the church car park. We will have a burger stall, pancake stall, ice cream van and shop in the grounds of Abbey Park for the evening. All Welcome.
We will be putting out a call for you to bring sandwiches/home baking to the club room on Friday or Saturday as we need to feed match officials/stewards both days and our two teams after match on Saturday
Roscommon.ie tourism website and brochure launch
• Friday 14th June: King House’s Grand Salon, newly painted and with beautiful lighting was he venue. We were invited to attend and view the excellent and informative new roscommon.ie website. Eimear Dowd introduced guest speakers Ros Co Co Chairperson Cllr Paschal Fitzmaurice, Ros Co Co Ceo Eugene Cummins and Jeff who with his wife Louise are the faces behind JDK Design, developers the site
• Roscommon Co Council executives as well as staff and a number of Co Councillors were present.
• A few sentences from the website give an insight to what Roscommon is all about: “Roscommon is often described as ‘the heart of undiscovered Ireland’. We invite you to unlock the treasures of this land of castles and ancient kings, of stately homes and wonderful landscapes, where shimmering rivers, lakes and forest parks abound. In this inland county a more restrained beauty reigns, bejewelled with sparkling lakes and dancing streams. The great River Shannon, over 200 miles in length, longest in Ireland and the UK, marks the eastern county border as it meanders south through Lough Boderg and Lough Bofin (or down to Lough Ree and onward to the Atlantic Ocean!).
Roscommon County CEO Eugene Cummins launched the website and brochure
(L-R) Roscommon Cllrs Valerie Beirne, Joe Murphy, Kathleen Shanagher, (next Lady’s name to follow), John Cummins
Boyle Parochial School
(L-R) Richard Kennedy, TD Eamon Scanlon, Secretary Mary Morris, Joy Little (School Board) Teachers Mary Carty, Daphne Howard, Principal Mardette Lynch, Senator Frank Feighan
Friday 14th June was a most enjoyable and informative School Sports Day at Pamela Stewart’s beautifully prepared lawn followed by Awards and a day for teachers as well as students to acquaint parents and guests with the range of extra curricular activities and accomplishments during 2019.
Boyle Parochial School teachers and school secretary:
(L-R) Daphne Howard, Mardette Lynch (Principal) Mary Morris (secretary) and Mary Carty
Úna Bhán Community Notes – Update 14th June
Manmade, cultured habitat for mankind, birds and bees
Website launch – Friday 14th June
SEAI Energy Event in Abbey Community College
Barry Lowe wrote: Energy event at Abbey community College on Monday next.. The purpose of our attendance is to make people aware of what kind of grant aid is available for energy upgrades in their homes under the schemes run by SEAI. Hopefully some of the attached info will be helpful to explain. I would appreciate if you could put some of the info on Realboyle to inform people. Thanks Sean … Barry Lowe …087 657 7666
Boyle Courthouse Development
Following Leader Grant approval, next stage works at the exterior and steps of Boyle Courthouse will start shortly.
Brogans Father’s Day Specials
Roscommon Co Council – Well Done
Our local Area Office and Benny on the mower are doing a great job, trimming verges and green spaces around town. In particular, the N294 approach to Boyle from the Kilbryan junction and all the way to Carrick Road never looked better !!
Success for Scoil na nAingeal Naofa
“Great News … our girls have won their Cumann na mBunscoil Football Final versus St Coman’s Wood. The contest was closely played with the Boyle girls winning on a well-deserved final score of 2-04 to 7 points.
• Tonight’s is the 4th 2019 final win for Scoil na nAingeal … volleyball, 2 basketball team wins and now the Cumann na mBunscoil championship
• Special thanks tonight to football coaches Emer Burke, Helen Connaughton and Bernard Shannon as well as school principal Michelle Brady (Gill) for assisting in creating the winning environment
NEW ROSCOMMON WRITING AWARD 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 NEW ROSCOMMON WRITING AWARD has just been announced.
Adjudicator Kevin Hora has selected the following writers from the 67 entries:
Louise G. Cole – Eileen Keane – Brian McClean (twice) – PJ Moore (twice) – John Mulligan (twice) – Shane Tivenan – Neil Tully. The adjudicator had no prior knowledge of the names of the entrants, as all entries were numbered, with care taken to ensure the entries remained anonymous to the adjudicator.
At the awards ceremony, which will take place at 6pm in King House, Boyle on Tuesday 18th June, the winning entry together with the 4 runners-up will be announced.
Operative/Driver wanted
Boyle Family Resource Centre is seeking to recruit a part time General Operative/Driver through the Roscommon Rural Social Scheme. The post will be based in Boyle FRC. Category B driving licence essential. To be eligible to apply, the candidate or their immediate family must have an active herd number and be in receipt of a means tested Social Welfare payment i.e. Farm Assist or Jobseekers Allowance. Please ring Deborah on 071 966 3000 for further information.
Boyle Chamber Lotto Results – Monday June 10th 2019
Numbers drawn: 04, 11, 19, 21
Jackpot winner: None
Match three winner: J. Daly, M. Mullen, A. Hatter, L. Mannagen.
Thank-you to all who support the draw.
Next draw Monday June 17th 2019 at 11.00pm in Dodd’s Bar. Jackpot €3710.00
Center Parks, Co. Longford
Center Parks investment in the site is one of the largest ever recorded in Irish tourism. When the new park opens in mid August it will have 466 lodges in 2, 3 and 4-bedroom format, a 31-bed apartment complex, and 100 leisure activities.
Center Parks isbuilt on the 400-acre forestry site located between Mullingar and Ballymahon.
Roscommon Herald 11th June
Get your copy of this week’s Roscommon Herald for full details
Get your copy of this week’s Roscommon Herald for full details
Féile Peile na nÓg 2019
Pictured are the u14 Féile team and management with sponsor Alan Cooney of Cooney Motors
(edited Brendan McGee photo)
Féile Peile na nÓg will be hosted in the province of Connacht from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th June 2019 for under 14 boys and girls football teams. 850 games will be played over the weekend in 200 venues between 350 teams from GAA Clubs across Ireland and abroad.
• Boyle GAA Club will host a team from Gaultier GAA Club, Co Waterford who will stay with the u14 boys’ families.
Boyle teams had great success recently in 2018 and 2016, reaching the Cup semi finals both years.
• Friday 28th will see Division 4 – Group A – Round 1 matches in Abbey Park Boyle between Boyle, Gaultier, Whitehall Colmcille’s and Western Gaels from 4.45pm. Boyle GAA Club will be a hive of activity as we welcome players and spectators to the grounds for a great evening’s football. All welcome.
The Toon Team – Our Father
Boyle GAA Club Update 10th June
Boyle Golf Club Update 10th June
Brendan Gaffney and Susan O’Mahoney, respective winners of Presidents Prize to the Men and Ladies 2019 with President Sean Heslin
Second Gate, Rockingham 9th June 2019
Boyle Camogie Club
“A number of the under 12 girls pictured with Mark O’Connor of Abbey Tree Services who sponsored a set of jerseys for our under 12 girls.
This is the first year the club have an u12 team & the girls are very much looking forward to playing in competition with their new Abbey Tree Services Jerseys.
Boyle Camogie are extremely grateful to Mark for his generosity. Go raibh míle maith agat.”
Boyle Energy Survey Results
Boyle spends €4.1 million on energy each year, mainly on heating and transport!
This amazing figure was calculated in a survey done in Boyle recently carried out by Good Energies Alliance (GEAI), a Leitrim-based charity with a focus on renewable energies and climate change. Would you like to know more about the survey and how to cut down on your energy costs?
Come to the ENERGY CHALLENGE SEMINAR, Monday 17th June in Abbey Community College at 7.30pm.
The full results will be presented, followed by discussions on increasing energy efficiency and reducing costs.
Admission is FREE and refreshments will be served.
Tony Conboy Update 6th June
Boyle Abbey – circle graphic
Creative Frame
Writers / Filmmakers collaboration workshop
Sligo Leitrim Roscommon Film Project is continuing to enable the film sector in Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon to grow and develop.
To support this, the three local authorities are again offering a bursary to a filmmaker and writer to collaborate in the development of a new project. The purpose of the bursary is to encourage practitioners to work together, to learn from each other and to seed the development of new ideas that may be made into films in the future. Concepts for film projects in any context or genre will be considered.
County Roscommon Disability Support Group
County Roscommon Disability Support Group CLG is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year with a week of events and activities taking place from Tuesday, 2nd July until Friday, 5th July.
Rhododendrons in Rockingham
Date for your Diary – Roscommon Solstice Choir
Corpus Christi Procession
Feast of Corpus Christi will take place on Sunday 23rd June. This year’s procession will start immediately after the 11.30am Mass and the route will be out Abbeytown to Drumderrig Nursing Home finishing with Benediction.
• We would like to extend a special invitation to all those boys and girls who celebrated their First Holy Communion in recent weeks to be part of our procession. Weather permitting we will have a community gathering for a hour on two with a cuppa and chat and bouncy castle and slide for the young people.
Pilgrimage to Lough Derg
Elphin Diocese Annual 3day pilgrimage to Lough Derg takes place Friday June 21st to Sunday June 23rd. All persons over 16 in good health welcome to participate. For more details, including bus travel option, see www.elphindiocese.ie/lough-derg or contact Justin on 087 617 1526.
Broadband – Naughten
Roscommon Solstice Choir Concert
Roscommon Solstice Choir – Boyle Concert – at 8.30pm on Friday 21st June in St. Joseph’s Church, Boyle. The choir of over 100 members is a County Roscommon Choir under the direction of Andrew & Eimear Reynolds. Their ethos is really to be commended. They bring enjoyment not only to audiences, but to the members of the choir. They also help to raise funds for worthy causes and are truly amazing
Mandy has been busy…
The rain as I took this photo will make the foliage grow beautifully
Parish Pastoral Council
At a recent Parish Pastoral Council Meeting the following items were discussed / decided …
• Bell Tower : we are waiting for planning permission before we can proceed.
• Roscommon Solstice Choir will give a concert in St. Joseph’s Church on Friday 21st June at 8.30pm. Part of proceeds will go towards Bell Tower.
• Corpus Christi Procession will be on 23rd June and the route will be out the Abbeytown gate to Drumderrig Nursing Home.
• We will soon proceed with installing a Web Cam to stream Masses online and finally we are looking into the possibility of CCTV.
Know Your Rights: Recognition of your qualifications
Alcoholics Anonymous
A viewer wrote: “Just a gentle reminder – we would be delighted if you could put a small message on realboyle.com regarding our AA meeting. It takes place every Thursday at midday in St. Joseph’s Hall.
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. Their stated purpose is to enable “members to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.” It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, and apolitical.”
Remember man thou art but dust
Clarke’s Bar & Restaurant
Lough Key Forest Park – Rockingham
Know your rights: Is Good Friday a public holiday?
Boyle in the County Roscommon
Know Your Rights
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