May 27
Early summer and time to get out in the garden for the small folk of Lisacul, waving to the neighbours, hunting for squirms in the compost bin or having a quick feed from Mammy. If you’d like to add your photos to the 365 project you can email them to Lisacul365@gmail.com.
May 27
Back in March 1938, the children of Lisacul were given “Travelling Folk” as an essay title. Here’s one of them. Isn’t the handwriting beautiful? Travelling Folk The people of this district in ancient times were always noted for their hospitality and kindness to strangers, beggars and travelling folk who chanced to pass the way. A stranger …
May 25
A meeting in a graveyard resulted in a terrific write up in The Roscommon Herald this week. Paul Kirwan visited Lisacul in search of a conifer in Kilrooan, met with Mike Carty and the two ended up at the church admiring the work of the Tidy Towns Group and the Community Employment Scheme there. You …
May 20
This week is all about the biodiversity (“bout the biodiversity, no pollution” as Meghan Trainor didn’t sing) and we’ve had some lovely pictures in to the 365 project. We’ve put them all up in a separate page, but here is a small selection and a conundrum: how are we going to pick just one for each day …
May 18
Our CE team have been slaving away over a hot work bench recently and the results will be revealed this evening (18th May) at the crossroads in Lisacul. I’m not allowed say what it is, but I did manage to get in and sneak some photographs. Any ideas?
May 13
A minor change in arrangements – rather than putting recent pictures on a page and updating the page, we’re going to put them up as a post. This means they’ll be here for you to look back on later. You can catch up with the February, March and April pictures on our Flickr Page. Don’t …
May 11
Biodiversity Week runs from Saturday 14th May to Sunday 22nd May*. If you’re not sure, Lisacul’s Tidy Towns group will be delighted to help you with ideas. To start you off here are some of the things planned so far: Fóróige will be building bug hotels using found material so that pollinators and other beneficial insects …
May 05
Lara, the Active Age Coordinator at Lisacul Community Centre, has organised an Introduction to Computers session on 23rd and 24th May for the Active Age group. We have some spaces left over, so if anyone would like to take their first steps on the information superhighway, please contact the resource centre to book a place. …
May 04
As judging looms ever nearer, the Tidy Towns team have started the 2016 campaign with a massive assault on the rubbish along the main road, picking up bags and bags of “I can’t be bothered to take this home and put it in the bin so I’ll throw it out the window” detritus and then, …
