Category: News

RosFM was recently featured in the Roscommon Public Participation Network (PPN) Newsletter to mark the 20th anniversary of RosFM. Roscommon PPN caught up with the stations’s management team of David Creighton, Bernie Kearney and Martina Dockery. Click here to read

Shows airing on RosFM were awarded at the recent CRAOL Achievement Awards 2024 in Dundalk. Lovers Pamire picked up a Silver Award in the category Access, Diversity & Inclusion for his radio show Lovers Paradise which airs weekly on RosFM. Ciara Lawless also received a Silver Award for her show Good Morning Roscommon in the Social Benefit Talk category.

RosFM celebrates 20 years on the air this month. To mark this special occasion, RosFM held a special gathering of volunteers and sponsors, past and present in Gleesons, Roscommon Town followed by a dance in the Abbey Hotel, Roscommon.

Roscommon’s only community radio station RosFM won three major awards at the annual CRAOL (Community Radio Forum of Ireland) conference which was held this year in Athlone. The ‘Traditional Irish Music and Folk Show’ presented by local musician Therese Hanly won a silver award for her innovation in bringing in local musicians to share their stories and to play their […]

RosFM is proud to announce it has been short-listed for Best Media Literacy Intervention as part of the Media Literacy Ireland Awards 2023. This category includes any project, initiative or activity that promoted at least one skill outlined in the BAI Media Literacy Policy. RosFM was short-listed for it’s recent Integration Radio Training Programme. This initiative was designed to integrate […]

RosFM have recently moved studios from the Athlone Road to the Lanesborough Road in Roscommon Town. There was some disruption to our service over the past couple of weeks and our internet player was down. However we are now up to full power again and we apologise to our listeners for any inconvenience caused. It’s a new era for RosFM […]

At the presentation of prizes for the recent Roscommon Town Easter Parade: (L to R) Seamus Duke, Niamh Loftus, Ciara Lawless (all RosFM) Caitlin McConn (Committee) and Mickey Oates (Sponsor)

Photo Caption (taken before covid)(Kate Byrne, John Gore-Grimes, Karen Meenan and Dr Francesca Farina in the attached headshot) Voyage Around My Brain is a dementia-inclusive radio series originally broadcast on NearFM and now on RosFM that examines aspects of brain health from different viewpoints. Each program features an ‘expert voice’, typically a member of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) […]

PRESS RELEASE At the recent CRAOL (Community Radio Ireland) awards ceremony which was held in Kilkenny RosFM won a Bronze Award for the Good Morning Roscommon Programme presented by Seamus Duke. The programme won in the ‘Social Benefit’ category. Overall, there were 34 submissions and all entries were considered as ‘Stand Alone’ efforts. There was no overall winner. Stations demonstrated […]