Coiste Forbartha na Carraige

15/04/2026

Our monthly meeting takes place at 8pm this evening all welcome!

25/03/2026

On the run up to St Patricks weekend we had our annual spring clean of the area and we wish to thank all the volunteers to helped out yet again this year, each have there own route and do a great job tidying it up. We still have a few roads that need looking after so if you can help drop us a message and we can arrange bags, pickers, gloves and hi-vis vests for you. All help welcomed to help keep the village tidy.

25/03/2026

We would like to thank each and everyone one of you who who supported our St Patricks Parade Table Quiz in Evelyn's recently, to the teams, quizmaster David and John, ticket sellers and prize donators and anyone else who helped thanks for your support and of course to Evelyn for hosting the event.

Then the following day we had our annual parade which was a bit quiter than other years due to other events taking place, thanks to all who took part, to St Carthas Pipe Band for leading, to our St Patrick, Gene and to all who helped it run smoothly. To Kevin, Declan, Tony and Neill for helping with the traffic control and anyone else who helped in any way we are very grateful.

If you would like to help with future events in the village please get in touch as it would be nice to get the summer event back up and running and all help is needed no matter how small.

12/03/2026

07/03/2026

The next meeting of Coiste Forbartha na Carraige takes place this Wednesday 11th March at 8pm in The Old School, all welcome.

18/01/2026

And it only feels like they went up not that long ago! This morning the Christmas lights were taken down, thanks to Brendan and David McShane, Columba Carroll, Aiden McGinley for all their help putting up and taking down the lights, its takes a while to do this job so thanks lads and the lights looked great, thanks also to Dolores for the breakfasts.

We will run another quiz later in the year and funds will extend the lights on the riverwalk and we have a few other plans.

14/01/2026

Motion passed to inspect Carrick Wastewater Treatment Plant's impact on Glen River

The motion passed by Donegal County Council arises from work undertaken by the Environmental sub-Group of Coiste Forbartha na Carraige (Martina O’Gara, Donal McBrearty, Seamus Gallagher and Dermot Diamond) to improve infrastructure that is vital for future development of Carrick Town. A complaint to Uisce Éireann was submitted as a cover document with seven linked files (six documents and one video) on Wednesday 27 August 2025.

On 17th November notification was received from Uisce Éireann that the complaint had been rejected. The response did not address any of the points raised in the documentation but simply restated Uisce Éireann’s position that there are "no plans to upgrade the Carrick WWTP in the Uisce Eireann Capital Investment Plan”.

This generic response was very disappointing as we had highlighted serious issues with the existing infrastructure in the accompanying documentation, none of which was referred to in the response. We therefore requested the decision to be "escalated and reviewed", which we could do according to the response from Uisce Éireann.

This request was submitted on 5th December at 13:08, under the assumption that a more detailed and considered response from Uisce Éireann would be invoked. Instead, the same generic response was received at 14:15 on the same day.

Our documentation clearly demonstrates that the wastewater treatment infrastructure at Carrick is polluting the Glen River and lacks the available capacity* to accommodate new connections to the town’s wastewater system, with serious negative implications for future development of the town.

We hope that this motion passed by Donegal County Council will motivate Uisce Éireann to engage with the Development Committee to produce a development roadmap for improving the town’s wastewater treatment facilities.

Coiste Forbartha na Carraige would like to thank Donegal County Council for passing this motion and in particular Councillors Jimmy Brogan, Michael Boyle and Niamh Kennedy and Senator Manus Boyle for their continuing interest and support for the committee’s efforts to develop Carrick Village.

*The Carrick Waste Water Treatment System has a reported design loading capacity of 260 population equivalence (p.e.) and provides only primary settlement of the waste. The current loading is reported as 452 p.e and is significantly above this during the tourist season.

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08/01/2026

Coiste Forbartha na Carraige AGM

The 2026 Coiste Forbartha na Carraige AGM will take place on Wednesday 21st January at 8pm in The Old School, all welcome.

Motions must be with the secretary at least 7 days before the AGM. Motions for discussion can be emailed to [email protected]

07/01/2026

Notice of AGM
The Coiste Forbartha AGM will take place on Wednesday 21st January at 8pm in The Old School.

23/12/2025

On behalf of the committee, we'd like to Thank You all for your support over the last few weeks and our draws. We really appreciate all your help with funding for Coiste Forbartha na Carraige and its projects. We delivered our hampers out last night. Wishing you all a Happy Christmas & best wishes for 2026.

15/12/2025

Draw will be decided on bonus ball on Saturday 20th December.