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Letters | Saturday, May 17, 2008

Bruton urges Yes vote

Dear Editor,
I hope you will not mind my availing of the columns of the Roscommon Herald to say, in my personal capacity, why I will be going home to vote “Yes” to the Lisbon Treaty.
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Politics at play with recycling site

Dear Editor,
I would be grateful if you would allow me space in your widely read newspaper to make a few points. At a recent meeting of Enterprise Castlerea, regarding the site of the proposed recycling centre for Castlerea at the Demesne in Castlerea, I was quoted as being critical of Roscommon County Council and the County Manager, Mr John Tiernan.
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State of our historic Celtic villlage

Dear Editor,
We, the members of Tulsk Tidy Committee, are very concerned about the state of our historic Celtic villlage. Firstly the recycling bank opposite the Church of Saints Eithne and Fidelma is in a dreadful state, a real eye sore.
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Thank you to council

Dear Editor,
Allow us a small space in your paper to sincerely thank Roscommon County Council for the beautiful job it has done on the street at the back of our houses. Our thanks go out to the engineers, work-men and the tar company for such a fine job.
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Management companies - the new ground rent landlords

The actions of the County Planning Executive of Roscommon County Council in insisting on the putting in pace of a management company when granting planning permission for housing developments in Ballaghaderreen and other towns in the county in recent years must be deplored.  more >

Looking for the Regan connection

Dear Editor,
I have been searching for Regan family members in the Roscommon area.
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Wake up call

Dear Editor,
The banning of Irish turf cutters from their own bogs next year, should serve as a serious wake up call in the run up to the referendum on the new European Treaty.
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Childcare investment clarifications

Dear Editor,
Following the report in your paper last week on Government investment and other matters relating to childcare in Roscommon, as Principal Officer in the Office of the Minister for Children (OMC) with responsibility for implementing the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), I would like to take this opportunity to comment on a number of the points referred to.
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Cherishing all children equally

Dear Editor,
I would like to us the medium of your newspaper to highlight the plight of Paiste le Ceile.
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Looking for Sheehan family

Through extensive research and with the kind help of Mary Skelly of the County Roscommon Heritage and Genealogy Company, there is evidence that our Irish ancestor had a holding in the township of Bidgecarton of Derrycashel in the name of Martin Sheehan and his wife Maria (Mary) Cullen Sheehan, in the 1830.  more >



 

 

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