Swinford & District Gardening Club Upcoming Trips
Swinford & District Gardening Club have some exciting new trips in the pipeline at the moment. Visits are being planned to: Horkan’s Garden Centre on Tuesday 28th April at 7.30pm Padraig and Peter Horkan will be on hand to offer advice and answer questions. Swinford Gardening Club members are travelling to Horkan’s Garden Centre by car. Anyone requiring a lift should be at the Gateway Hotel by 7pm at the latest. Open...
Bank of Ireland brings its ‘Enterprise Town’ Initiative to Swinford
‘Enterprise Town’ Initiative launched to support local businesses and the wider community. Guest speakers include, Aaron Forde, Aurivo Co-Operative Society and Donal Healy, Marketing Manager, Ireland West Airport. Bank of Ireland have announced details of an exciting programme of activity for Swinford, over the weekend of 17th and 18th April 2015. The ‘Enterprise Town’ initiative has been organised by the Bank in partnership with the...
Swinford Indoor Market is on this Easter Saturday
This Easter Saturday sees the return of the Swinford Indoor Market. It’s location as always, is in the lovely historic Cultural Centre on Station Road (beside the library). As it is Easter and due to popular demand the market will be staying open until 2pm this Saturday! So the new hours are 9:30am to 2:00pm. In addition to our regular traders we have some exciting new additions so come along and check them out. Music this month...
St Patrick’s Day Parade Pictures
This slideshow requires JavaScript. It has been another fantastic St Patrick’s day in Swinford. The weather was beautiful and a great crowd lined the streets. The parade consisted of over 30 floats representing local businesses, schools and oganisations. Swinford.ie had our own float and a big thank you to Thomas Grufferty, Martin Maye and all the volunteers who helped to put it together and to John Dunleavy, “The lucky...
Swinford U16 Girls into All Ireland Final
Super U16 Girls into All Ireland Final On Thursday the entire community of Swinford celebrated with pride as the U16 Ladies Gaelic Footballers of Scoil Muire & Padraig reached the All Ireland Final. The girls played and won a thrilling All Ireland semi-final against Colaiste Oiriall of Monaghan, to qualify for The Post Primary Schools All Ireland Final in two weeks time. Having come through a nail biting Connacht Final last month,...
U16 Girls in All Ireland Semi Final
U16 Girls in All Ireland Semi Final Swinford will bid to reach another All Ireland Final on Thursday next when the U16 girls from Scoil Muire & Padraig take on Colaiste Oiriall of Monaghan town in the All Ireland Semi-final. Swinford won the Connacht Title last month with a victory over St Nathys of Ballaghadereen. Monaghan captured the Ulster title with a win over Magherafelt in their final. The game is scheduled for 12.15 at...
