Boyle & District Municipal Council is a title we will become familiar with following the May 2014 elections. From then onwards, Boyle Town Council with its 9 locally elected Councillors will no longer exist. It will be replaced with the new local authority and cover a wider area. Roscommon Co Council will have 18 Councillors, instead of 26. in other words, there we will have a total of 24 elected county representatives and not 35.
• Independent Boyle Town Councillor Frank Geelan tells me that the new Boyle & District Municipal Council will cover a large area including Boyle, Ballaghaderreen, Frenchpark, Ballinagare, Tulsk, Strokestown, Rooskey, Tarmonbarry, Elphin, Croghan, Ballinameen, Ballyfarnon, Keadue, Arigna, Cootehall and Cortober.
• We will miss Boyle Town Council, and the easy access we had to our locally elected, always available Councillors. I'm guessing of course, but suspect the there will be only one Councillor from Boyle town. Though there will be 5 more covering the whole area, district splitting, the usual tradeoffs and party political allegiances will leave many local issues on some 'back burner' or other
