PV Clarke from Tunnyduff is known as a local legend. He recently retired from his position as a Bus Eireann school bus driver where he served the community collecting two generations of children and bringing them to and from school each day for 38 years. He drove the school bus to Killinkere National School and […]
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‘20/20 Visualise’ Contemporary Visual Art Exhibition
County Manager Jack Keyes will be in Bailieborough Arts and Cultural Centre this Thursday 11th April @ 8pm to launch ‘20/20 Visualise’ Contemporary Arts Exhibition. This show has been curated by Niamh Smyth and involves four artists who have been working on the project in Bailieborough over the past couple of months. The artists involved […]
Acting For PEACE Killinkere Foróige
Killinkere Foróige has been one of the groups selected to work on an innovative arts programme using drama and theatre to promote reconciliation and mutual understanding within the border counties of Cavan, Leitrim, Louth and Monaghan. Through the endeavours of Cllr NIamh Smyth and Smashing Times Theatre Company with the support of the International Fund […]
Transition Year Students play their part in Bailieborough Regeneration
Transition year students from Bailieborough Community School have certainly played their part and demonstrated their active citizenship by helping to brighten up the main street in Bailieborough with their mural painting ‘Magical, Mystical Pixies and Fairies’. This project came about as a result of Bailieborough Arts and Cultural Centre @ the wesleyan chapel working with […]
Playground in Bailieborough Gets a New Lease of Life
The playground in Bailieborough got a new lease of life last week when the recently formed Community Alert Committee undertook a major cleanup operation of the area and made some important improvements to the site. Thanks to the support of local security company MC Security Alarms, new CCTV cameras were installed which will help deter […]
Cllr Niamh Smyth welcomes new An Post letterbox for Rural Community
Fianna Fáil Councillor Niamh Smyth is delighted that yesterday with the help of An Post, a new letterbox has been erected at Tunnyduff Community Centre. “Rural Ireland and rural communities are not dead and gone” says Cllr Smyth. Cllr. Smyth has expressed her delighted that after weeks of negotiations with An Post on behalf of […]
Press Release: Students face uncertainty over grants ahead of next week’s first round of college offers
Fianna Fail Bailieborough Councillor and Cavan VEC Board Memberhas said that it is “hugely unfair that a large number of leaving certificatestudents and their families continue to face huge uncertainty over changes tothird level grants only a few days before they are expected to make a decisionon college offers.” Cllr. Smyth said: “On Monday […]
PRESS RELEASE: Government’s stimulus package offers little for SME’s in Cavan
Government’s stimulus package offers little for SME’s in Cavan – Smyth Local Fianna Fáil Councillor, Niamh Smyth has dismissed the Government’s Stimulus Package announcement as nothing more than spin. The Government has recently announced a €2.25 investment in the economy. ‘While any investment in the economy is to be welcomed, this programme will […]
PRESS RELEASE: Smyth calls on Government to reject any increase in PRSI
Smyth calls on Government to reject any increase in PRSI Government should focus on job creation and reducing Social Welfare Fraud rather than cutting family’s take home pay Fianna Fáil Councillor for Bailieborough, Niamh Smyth is calling on the Fine Gael TD’s in Cavan and Monaghan to vigorously oppose any attempt by the Labour […]
PRESS RELEASE: Fianna Fáil launch ambitious plan to tackle youth unemployment
Fianna Fáil launch ambitious plan to tackle youth unemployment – Cllr. Smyth ‘Fianna Fáil has launched an ambitious yet realistic national plan to tackle the problem of youth unemployment and many of the proposals will have direct benefits for young people in Co. Cavan’ said Fianna Fail Councillor, Niamh Smyth The plan which was […]