Ballinamore is in contention to host the elements of two stages in the FBD Insurance Rás 2008.
The south Leitrim town – which last year successfully hosted Leitrim’s inaugural full Triathlon – is bidding to host the finish of stage one on Sunday May 18th and the start of stage two on the following morning.
If Ballinamore [...]

by Denis O’Brien


 
In the long running debacle over the new school for Ballinamore, there are signs that the school’s design process could get the go-ahead by the end of the month.

After a prolonged period that saw the town waiting many years for the Office of Public Works to find a suitable new school site, last [...]

By Rodney Farry
rodney@leitrimpost.com
 
The recent festive period appears to have served up a mixed bag for Leitrim’s publicans.
While many publicans in the county’s larger towns reported an upturn in business, for their rural counterparts this Christmas showed little improvement on last year’s poor showing. 
Manorhamilton publican Felim Gurn, proprietor of the Milestone Bar, told the Leitrim Post, [...]

By Denis O’Brien


Snowfalls over the weekend together with icy roads made driving conditions throughout Leitrim hazardous with numerous snow-related incidents. Thankfully there were no reports of injuries.  Last Friday morning brought the first snow of the new year with a blanket of the white stuff covering much of the county. Sub zero temperatures had the [...]

A stark reminder of the danger on the roads across the county was brought to the fore again after another dark week on our roads saw three men lose their lives in two separate accidents.
Kinlough native Paul Connolly (41) became Leitrim’s latest road victim after he lost his brave ten-day fight for life in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin over the weekend. Mr Connolly suffered severe head injuries when his car was involved in a single vehicle accident near the village of
Lurganboy on September 5.

On top of a record county final attendance last Sunday week, Leitrim GAA this year has seen the biggest club championship gate receipts to
date.
If the packed attendances at club games through- out the county this season was an indicator of healthy times for Leitrim GAA, then the record attendance of 4,000 people at the recent county fi nal is surely a sign of an organisation that is going from strength to strength.
Indeed, so far this year the GAA are heading for a record year as the club championship gate receipts are up on previous years.
When you add in the fact this year’s terrible summer weather wasn’t exactly conducive to getting one out of the house and down to the park, then the results so far, say a lot about both the strength of the county organisation and the quality of games on offer.

Growing concerns about health and safety issues for school children in the congested Ballinamore PPS school vicinity will see local councillors investigate what can be done to safeguard students safety.
The Ballinamore Parents Association, who chaired the local meeting about the school, said there were fears that the proposed widening of the bridge at the entrance to the town would create fears for the safety of children attending the nearby secondary and primary schools. They
insisted that the new school should be built before the bridge is remodelled. Chairperson, Maureen Martin, read out a letter received from, Noel Brett CEO of the National Road Safety Council, saying that the best solution to the problem would be the building of the new school that would take children out of the immediate danger area.

There was a large turnout at the Bee Park Centre Manorhamilton last Thursday night for Leitrim County Council’s annual Housing Estate Awards.
Now in its fourth year, the aim of the Scheme is to recognise and publicly acknowledge the excellent work of Residents Associations throughout Leitrim in the upkeep of their estates. The scheme also aims to bring neighbours together and nurtures a sense of pride and community spirit.
One of Leitrim’s biggest housing estates, Townspark in Carrick on Shannon scooped a number of awards on the night including the Large Estate award and was the first winner of the ‘Best Green Estate’ award.

Ballinamore residents and businesses can celebrate this week with the news that for promotion of bilingualism, they are the number one town in the country.
As part of the annual showcasing of towns and villages in The Tidy Town Awards, this year a new category in the ‘Building a Bilingual Society’ was added to the list of honours and Ballinamore came in a historic first.
The category was for a town with less than a population of 1000 and was judged on not only the visual Irish signage seen on the business premises of the town but also on what social structures were in place to promote and support Bilingualism in relation to the Irish language.

A group organising a rally in Dublin on Saturday in support of the illegal immigrants in America is calling on their families in Leitrim to attend.

Hundreds of Leitrim natives are finding life in their adopted home increasingly difficult in the aftermath of 9/11 as US authorities have clamped down on illegal immigrants of all nationalities.