Healthy Roscommon

28/10/2025

Preparing for Life is an exciting new home visiting programme for expectant mothers in the Ballaghaderreen and surrounding areas.

Preparing for Life is a Home Visiting programme based the Ballaghaderreen and surrounds catchment area. The programme is open to pregnant women and with the mother’s consent, we will work with the family until the child is school ready. This is a free evidence-based programme that offers free developmental items at different stages. It is open to voluntary and universal referrals. As part of our ethos in Preparing for Life Ballaghaderreen we aim to empower and support women, children and families and the community to thrive by sharing information and building on the family’s strengths, recognising them as experts of their own lives.

Please contact (086) 8224887 for further details.
Ballaghaderreen Family Resource Centre

22/10/2025

Monday October 20th marked a significant day for Healthy Roscommon. Roscommon County Council Chief Executive Shane Tiernan launched two documents Healthy Roscommon documents which we hope will shape the health and wellbeing of people living and working in Roscommon for many years to come.

📌Healthy Roscommon Community Wellbeing Strategy 2025 - 2029

The new Healthy Roscommon Community Wellbeing Strategy has prioritised the health needs of the people of Roscommon through consultation and identified key actions to be delivered over the next 5 years to improve the health and wellbeing of those living and working in Roscommon. It will inform and drive the work of Healthy Roscommon over the coming years in line with Healthy Ireland Framework.

📌 Community Resilience Toolkit for Roscommon

Bourne out of learnings from recent weather events, The Community Resilience Toolkit is designed to empower Roscommon communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from . The toolkit is informed by evidence-based practices that have helped other communities across the world and uses a psychological first aid approach to support the safety, security and emotional needs of those experiencing crisis.

I would like to thank Eamon Hannan, Chair and members of the Health and Wellbeing Subcommittee, Roscommon Public Participation Network, Roscommon County Council Roscommon Sports Partnership Roscommon Leader Partnership HSE Ireland GRETB Training Centre and all of those who contributed to the development of these documents. I would particularly like to thank Dr Martin Daly, Cathaoirleach Liam Callaghan and Elected Members of Roscommon County Council who attended the launch to show their support and welcome the launch of both documents.

Healthy Ireland Local Government

13/10/2025

As part of National Breastfeeding Week, Healthy Roscommon was delighted to be part of the launch of We're Breastfeeding Friendly Roscommon.

This initiative is designed to to help improve the health and wellbeing of breastfeeding mothers, babies and their families through the development and promotion of breastfeeding friendly businesses, public offices, organisations and communities.

It was a wonderful morning filled with positive stories of families feeling supported in their breastfeeding journey and learning about how we could go about supporting them further.

We were delighted to be joined by lots of mothers and their children and to hear the poetry of Therhymingone Maria Tempany, to round off a wonderful event.

We are calling on businesses and organisations around Roscommon to support this initiative to show they welcome and support breastfeeding mothers and families by some easy and low-cost actions.

For further information or to access a copy of our information booklet please email breastfeedingfriendlyroscommon@gmail.com

Roscommon County Council HSE mychild.ie Roscommon Co. Library Foróige South Roscommon Family Resource Centre Boyle Family Resource Centre Roscommon Friends of Breastfeeding Mum2Mum Group Cuidiú Longford-Roscommon HSE Ireland Healthy Ireland

13/10/2025

Tarmonbarry Active Age! Starting this Week👏

Stay active, social, and energised this autumn with our fun Multi Activity Programme, designed for both men and women to keep moving.

📌 Venue: St Barry’s Club House
📅 Starts: 18th October
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM
📆 Duration: 4 weeks
💶 Cost: €20

👉 Don’t miss out – register today on Eventbrite to secure your spot!
🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1756245711199

Sport Ireland .run Strokestown Town Team Strokestown Sport & Activity Hub

09/10/2025

Healthy Roscommon as part of the Community Development Team was delighted to be nominated for an Irish Climate Change Leadership Award on Friday night last.

This nomination was for the Community Development Team's response in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn. This response saw local authority, PPN, Community groups, public agencies and many more come together in a coordinated way to provide support over a three week period to people throughout the county impacted by extended power outages, communication disruptions and impacts on their wellbeing.

Based on the learning from this event we have worked on the development of a Community Resilience Toolkit for community groups across Roscommon. This toolkit is designed to empower communities to improve preparedness and thus foster resilience in recovery from emergencies within their areas and to ensure smooth communication and access to support should such emergencies occur.

While we didn't take away the award on the night it was great recognition of a truly mammoth collaborative effort to manage the crisis and to learn from the 41 hubs across the county who supported so many people affected. We look forward to launching the toolkit in the coming weeks and helping to improve preparedness across the county.

Roscommon Public Participation Network Roscommon County Council Healthy Ireland

09/10/2025

As we saw when developing our Healthy Roscommon Strategy Community Safety has a huge impact on individuals mental health and wellbeing.
Please take the opportunity to get involved in Community Safety in Roscommon as part of the Roscommon Community Safety Partnership.
For further information visit www.roscommoncoco.ie or scan the QR code below.

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Get Involved in Shaping Community Safety! 📢

Roscommon County Council is inviting community groups & networks to join the Roscommon Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP). 👏

Help shape local safety priorities & solutions by sharing your experiences and perspectives.

📅 Closing date: Friday, 17th October 2025 @ 5pm
👉 Apply via My Online Services
📧 Queries: communitysafety@roscommoncoco.ie

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30/09/2025

Healthy Roscommon was delighted to partner with Roscommon Youth Service at the recent Rural Youth Assembly to launch Period Dignity Roscommon as part of Social Inclusion Week 2025. The event opened by Cllr John Keogh was attended by transition year students from across Roscommon.

This project is aimed at ensuring no women or girls across Roscommon experience period poverty and can get access to period products and reliable information easily. This Dept of Health funded Healthy Ireland project has seen the installation of dispensers containing free period products at public buildings and libraries around the county as well as via the FRC network, Foróige and is supported by sporting organisations across the county.

Products are available in the following locations

Roscommon Co. Library in Strokestown, Castlerea, Boyle, Roscommon, Ballaghaderreen.
Roscommon Arts Centre
King House
South Roscommon Family Resource Centre
Roscommon Leisure Centre
Ballaghaderreen Family Resource Centre
Boyle Family Resource Centre
Roscommon County Council
The Quad, Roscommon

19/09/2025

A lovely evening at King House for Boyle Family Resource Centre's Festival of Fun as part of Social Inclusion Week 2025.
I was delighted to showcase the Roscommon Period Dignity project, making period products available to all those in need of support across the county to prevent period poverty.
We had great engagement with those attending and are looking forward to the launch of the project this Wednesday at The Rural Youth Assembly.

Thank you to Boyle FRC for the invite and to The Period Fairies for helping to spread the word around the Festival this evening.

The evening ended perfectly with the launch of the first hot air balloon as part of the Irish Hot Air Ballooning Championships.

Roscommon County Council Healthy Ireland Boyle Family Resource Centre