Boyle

KEADUE SOCIAL SERVICES BUS

Please note our bus runs every Monday and Wednesday taking clients in and out to avail of Day Centre facilities here in Keadue. All welcome to attend classes/ day trips or just to have dinner and a chat. Route covered; Boyle, Ardcarne, Knockvicar, Cootehall, Correenigroe, Ballyfarnon, Keadue, Arigna, Drumshanho, Leitrim Village, Drumboylan. Further details contact Julie at 071 9647777 or 086 1749816.

VÓTÁIL 100

‘Vótáil 100 Votes for Women’ Will be held in King House this April. Boyle has been chosen to host the event due to its connection with Margaret Cousins, she was an educationist, suffragist and theosophist who established the All India Women’s Conference. Margaret was born on November 7, 1878, and lived on the Crescent in Boyle.

There will be a wide panel of speakers including Senator Ivana Bacik, Mary McAuliffe (UCD), Claire McGing (Maynooth University) and Sandra Collins (Director National Library of Ireland). Máire Egan Paul and Keith Monro will talk about ‘Margaret Cousins and the Irish Women’s Franchise League’.

This is a full day conference will be held on Wednesday, April 25, starting at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For further information or to book contact Mary Mullins 090 6637321 or 090 37243 email ghoare@roscommoncoco.ie.

COMMUNITY GAMES

The games will be held at Abbey Community College Playing Fields on Friday, April 27, at 6 p.m. with registration from 5.30 p.m. Tiny Tots Race under-eight, 60 metres 80 metres, under-10,100 metres 200 metres 100 metre hurdles under-12,100 metres 600 metres Ball Throw Long Puck (boys) under-14,100 metres 100 metres hurdles 800 metres Long Puck (girls) under-16, 1,500 metres. Mothers Race and Fathers Race. Every competitor must be under the age category in which they compete on July 31 this year e.g under-eight on July 31 to be eligible for under-eight competition. Entry fee is €2 per child. Refresehments will be available at the sports complex.

FILM WORKSHOP

Creative Frame in partnership with SLR Film are hosting a panel discussion and workshop for writers and filmmakers based in the three counties in King House Boyle on Friday, April 27. The panel will consist of writers who have successfully worked in film and filmmakers who have collaborated with writers in the development of film projects. Ferdia Mac.

Anna will chair the discus- sion with writers Brian Leyden and Eoin McNamee and film makers Marian Quinn and Linda Bhreathnach. Times 2 p.m. till 3.3 p.m. Panel discussion 3.30 till 5.00 Break out discussions with panel member. The workshop is free but attendees must be members of Creative Frame. Contact Maureen Carty, Creative Frame Project Manager, T: +353 (0) 71 96 21694E: creativeframeleitrim@gmail.com.

SMARTER FOCUS TRAINING

Do you want better focus, more concentration, less distractions, smarter thinking and more success? Then you should participate in Brain Gym Ireland’s new SMARTER FOCUS course on April 28 and 29 in Boyle.

This is a two-day focus training course for business, sports, studying, public speaking and more. Here you will have the opportunity of a lifetime to turn you life, education and career from a fist full of unfulfilled dreams, hopes and aspirations into a life of successfully achieving your potential and exceeding in ways you never thought possible. With powerful goal setting and concentration techniques the world will become a much easier place in which to learn, stay focused and succeed in everything you do. To book two or more and get super saver discount text or Message Pádraig King at 086 1723510.

BOYLE GOLF CLUB

The April 29, sees the most notable competition of the year to date, the ‘Voucher’. The first prize for this competition is a free single membership for the year, but only paid up members are eligible to win, so if you haven’t paid up by that date you may be doing yourself out of a chance to win one of the best prizes of the golfing year. Please contact the office at 071 9663033.

FASHION SHOW

On Thursday, April 26, at 8 p.m. a fashion show will be in St Joseph’s Hall with Clothes from Magees Fashion Shop, Main Street and Aidan Ray Menswear St Patrick Street. All proceeds to Abbey Community College.

CURLEW WALKERS CLUB

The next meeting of the Curlew Walkers will be taking place on Sunday, April 29, meeting on the Crescent at 11 a.m. Your leader for the day on the day will be Henk Meijnhart 087 2733373 and Mary Long 087 9528754. This will be a Flat grade C and is a Lissadell coast walk. Please confirm times with leader or website prior to each walk walkingboyle.com.

DARKNESS INTO LIGHT

400 people at the first Darkness Into Light in 2009 to 180,000 people last year, DIL has become a movement in more ways than one across Ireland and all over the world. We would love you to join us this on Saturday, May 12, starting at 4.15 a.m. at St Joseph’s Hall, Boyle.

MANUAL HANDLING COURSE

A five-day Manual Handling Instructors Course QQI Level 6 will take place at Boyle Enterprise Centre this May. Course dates May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Times 9.30/4.30. For more information or to book places please email info@roleskillnet.com or call 071 9673440.

BOYLE HOLIDAY GROUP

The holiday group will travel to North Donegal on Monday, June 4, till Friday, June 8, staying at the Mount Errigal Hotel, Letterkenny. Enquiries to Mary Regan 086 1298355 or 071 9663544.

COURTYARD MARKET

The Market takes place every Saturday in the grounds of King House, Boyle from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. For further information, please call Una Bhan at 071 9663033.