Roscommon Community Challenge is this Friday!

There is great excitement building as we head towards the starting line for the 10th annual Roscommon Community Challenge. It’s all happening on this Friday, 3rd of March at 8 pm. Bring the whole family or just yourself; we cater for everyone.

Starting from Roscommon Community Sports Park in Lisnamult, Roscommon Town, this Moonlight Walk/Jog/Run is open to all abilities. It’s a 5k and 10k run or walk around beautiful Roscommon Town with a new 10k route on show also.

This community event is for everyone – walkers, runners, joggers, individuals, teams, and families… those looking to set a time for 2022 and those that would like to improve on previous timings. Of course it is the chat in the Sports Park afterwards that is most important, so we look forward in anticipation to a great night on the March 3rd, as in previous years.

This challenge has proven extremely popular with a great response from people who signed up to be part of the training programme.

None of this would be possible without the encouragement and professionalism received from Roscommon Sports Partnership and we are extremely grateful to Coordinator Noel Feeley and his staff David Brady and Michael O’Donnell, with a special word of thanks to Martin Hannon, for all their support.

Thank you to Roscommon Harriers for providing help with timings on the

Remembering the late Albert Looby

When we were ‘recruiting’ area correspondents for the Roscommon Champion back in the 1990s, the aim was to find people who were embedded in the heart of their parish.

Albert Looby was one such person. A passionate GAA man, he was already submitting match reports and club notes for the Kilbride Club, where he was a perfectly partisan PRO!

When Albert became our Fourmilehouse correspondent, we began to really get to know him. Typically, he would arrive into the Champion office on a Monday, armed with scraps of papers which detailed the weekly rhythm of life in a rural parish… deaths, marriages, meetings…and of course GAA. (In those days, the Champion was produced in the very office in which the People is now based).

Albert’s match reports and community notes were usually only released to our typesetters after a good-humoured chat and proud overview of all that was happening in the parish.

Mostly, we talked GAA…unexpected wins, night. Roscommon Special Olympics are a remarkable bunch of athletes, and the club are delighted to be the beneficiaries of this year’s Community Challenge.

There is a thriving club within the county with bowlers and swimmers meeting every week and the club are looking forward to resuming on the Astro pitch soon.

It has been extremely hard to go fundraising over the last few years so this event is especially important, and proceeds will enable the continued provision of these sports to a most wonderful bunch of fantastic athletes.

Every ounce of your support is very much appreciated. Please remember there will be no registration on the night. Participants can register online in advance using this link: http://bitly.ws/AVdm