Ballaghaderreen
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‘Everyone is friendly’: Ballaghaderreen and the refugee crisis
- Social Affairs
- December 27, 2018, 01:27
Bashar Samiz got to play chess when his fifth-year classmates at the Abbey Community College in Boyle, Co Roscommon, were doing their Christmas Irish (...)

Suspended solicitor urged woman to stay quiet about money he owed her
- Crime & Law
- December 22, 2018, 02:00
Until last Wednesday afternoon, a shy middle-aged Roscommon wife and mother was unsure whether she was destined to lose her family home in the days be(...)

O’Callaghan took money from accounts of dead clients to shore up firm
- High Court
- December 20, 2018, 05:00
When Roscommon solicitor Declan O’Callaghan became obliged to reimburse two clients whose money he had taken without their authorisation, he adopted a(...)

Solicitor withheld €450,000 of award to man paralysed in car crash
- Crime & Law
- November 3, 2018, 06:00
December 2009 should have been an unremarkable month in the young life of Brian Colleran. The 21-year-old from Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon was a ke(...)

A Ballaghaderreen solicitor’s spectacular fall from grace
- Crime & Law
- August 11, 2018, 05:00
There is a joke doing the rounds in Ballaghaderreen. “What does it cost to post a letter in Ballagh?” goes the opening line. “Ohhh, around €1,800,” go(...)

Ice-breaker: Syria and Pakistan play soccer in Ballaghaderreen
- Social Affairs
- April 3, 2017, 05:00
As another 40 Syrians arrived at the former Abbeyfield hotel in Ballaghaderreen around lunchtime last Friday, local Pakistani-born barber Sajjad Hussa(...)

Newborn among 76 Syrians to arrive in Roscommon
- Social Affairs
- March 21, 2017, 19:10
Hope was in the air when a group of displaced Syrians arrived in Ballaghaderreen in Co Roscommon on Tuesday, not least because the newest of the new a(...)

Hotel set to house refugees linked to other Ballaghaderreen properties
- Social Affairs
- January 7, 2017, 01:00
The disused hotel in Ballaghaderreen that is to be turned into a emergency reception centre was acquired by a development company that has also bought(...)
Grandpa the Sniper review: family tale of a brave man of 1916
- Books
- December 18, 2016, 15:23
During Easter Week 1916, Frank Shouldice and his brother Jack fought with the Irish Volunteers at the Four Courts. Frank trained his rifle on British (...)

Aurivo may not be a household name but its roots go back to 1897 when groups of farmers in the northwest came together to boost their incomes by churn(...)