A planning application for the multi-million euro waterfront park at Hodson Bay is expected to be made by the end of the summer.

At a special gathering in Athlone on Saturday last, February 21st, a County Armagh family and local RNLI volunteers gathered to remember three members of the Portadown Angling Club involved in a fishing tragedy on Lough Ree in 2014.

An Bord Pleanála has rejected an appeal against granted planning permission for a development at Baysports in Kiltoom, South Roscommon.

The development is being described as a low density, low carbon visitor destination

Plans to develop a major eco-tourism resort at Yew Point peninsula in the Hodson Bay area of South Roscommon could generate €40m in tourism spend over the next ten years and create up to 95 jobs, according to the developers.