Co. Leitrim • 3 stories • Since 15 Nov 2018 • Latest 23 Apr 2026
Community note
Rooskey has the Heritage Festival dawn walk and the school week in the same community picture. Rooskey Heritage Festival advertised its 2026 walk for Saturday 9 May, starting at 4.15am from Rooskey Community Center. Rooskey National School's June news adds a Teddy Bear picnic on 16 June, described by the school as a day of activities celebrating friendship and organised by the Student Council. The school council notes say pupils are elected by classmates to represent views, improve school life, act as the student voice and help organise events. Leitrim Shorin Ryu Karate lists Rooskey Community Centre among its club venues, and the Rooskey centre notice gives Monday karate with Michael from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. The Shannon, Rooskey Lock, the riverside walk, Blueway, angling, shops, post office, holiday parks, nursing care and river visitors sit around a school and hall that are visibly in use. Recent local development and centre notices add more ordinary town life. Rooskey Town & Country Development has been sharing updates on the Rooskey-Dromod walk/cycleway, the wider Rooskey-Tarmon trail and a Cavan-Longford bus-service consultation. The Rooskey Centre lists Little Live Wires parent/toddler group on Friday mornings, Active Retirement on Tuesdays, Irish dancing on Wednesday and Friday evenings, Monday karate and the Bargain Basket charity shop with weekday opening hours. That keeps Rooskey as school, hall, charity shop, toddlers, older people, dancing, karate, Greenway/Blueway, lock and river activity not only a festival placeholder.
The body of Liam Farrell was re-interred at at Cloonmorris Cemetery after it was recently exhumed for a post mortem as part of a garda investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Rooskey man The remains of the late Leitrim man Liam Farrell have been reinterred with
23 Apr 2026 · Leitrim Observer
The High Court heard on Thursday that the 39-room Shannon Key West Hotel at Rooskey, on the Leitrim-Roscommon border, is set to accommodate asylum seekers from early January. The hotel is the subject of disputed proceedings between Paradub Ltd, which seeks to develop the property as a tourist hotel, and owner James Kiernan. Paradub claims it entered into an agreement to purchase the hotel, which closed in 2011, and…
Paradub Limited has brought High Court proceedings seeking to prevent the Shannon Key West Hotel at Rooskey, on the Leitrim-Roscommon border, from being used to accommodate asylum seekers. The company claims it holds an agreement to purchase the 39-room property from owner James Kiernan but alleges he has failed to complete the sale. According to Paradub's case, an option agreement was entered into in 2016 for…
Cases and rulings mentioning Rooskey from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
The High Court heard on Thursday that the 39-room Shannon Key West Hotel at Rooskey, on the Leitrim-Roscommon border, is set to accommodate asylum seekers from early January. The hotel is the subject of disputed proceedings between Paradub Ltd, which seeks to develop the...
Paradub Limited has brought High Court proceedings seeking to prevent the Shannon Key West Hotel at Rooskey, on the Leitrim-Roscommon border, from being used to accommodate asylum seekers. The company claims it holds an agreement to purchase the 39-room property from owner...
Motions, planning and decisions from Leitrim County Council and Municipal District meetings mentioning Rooskey.
Cllr Irene Guckian Rabbitte requested confirmation on the status of the proposed Greyway route between Rooskey and Dromod. The Roads Department confirmed the project received Part 8 Planning Approval in September 2024 and an ORIS funding application under measure 3 is awaiting decision, with announcement expected in the next few months.
Decision: Project awaiting funding decision; announcement expected within next few months
Cllr Irene Guckian Rabbitte