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On this week's Good Morning Roscommon Damien Finneran chats to Chris Dalton who discusses the issues of the day and the current national and international news stories.

On The Arts Programme this week, Ursula Ledwith is joined by Author, Jennifer Farley and Illustrator who chats about her latest children's book, 'Wonder Vet', the story of Aleen Cust, First female vet in Ireland, Nollaig Molloy, Julie Sharkey and Ann King, Artists - Creative Places, Ballaghaderreen, Aaron Monaghan, Super Blogger, 25th of November, and Mary Smyth from Roscommon County C...

In their weekly chat Emmett Corcoran and Seamus Duke remember the late Louis J Belton, a recent 50 Cent concert he was at, and a controversial vote in Ohio in the past 10 days.

This week historian Gerry Shannon continues his look at the life and times of the celebrated painter and Roscommon native Roderick O'Connor.

 A new strategy for the Volunteer service in Roscommon will be formulated over the next few months and it will be put in place to cover the years 2024 to 2028. The public are being asked for submissions and Shanette Budhai has been telling RosFM about what they are looking for.

 A new book has been published this week detailing the 133 year old history of Gaelic Football in the Oran GAA club. The book was written by local man and Oran member Mikey Monaghan and he has been talking to RosFM about the work he put in to bring it to fruition.

There was a huge shock in UK political circles this week with the return of former Prime Minister David Cameron who is the new Foreign Secretary as part of a re-shuffle after the sacking of Home Secretary Suella Braverman by Rishi Sunak. Sean McKiernan chats to Seamus Duke about this weeks' developments.

Today on Good Morning Roscommon Ciara Lawless guests were; Rita Spencer from The Lions Club, Ballinasloe, talking about events and being a part of The Lions Club, Aoife Kyne from Men's Development Network, talking about their work in the community and Amy Donohoe, Outreach Coordinator, COPE, Galway, talking about her work and the services available to people in the community.

Today on Good Morning Roscommon Ciara Lawless chats to Health & Fitness Coach and Organic Grower, Colman Power, who this week talks about seasonal produce, growing foods for the winter and answering some listeners questions.

Today on Good Morning Roscommon Ciara Lawless chats to Aine Traynor from Roscommon Women's Network who talks about the upcoming launch- Inter Cultural Art Project as part of Social Inclusion Week this 16th November.

Today on Good Morning Roscommon, Health & Fitness Coach, Shelley Olivia Smith shares another guided meditation with the listeners.

Today on Good Morning Roscommon Ciara Lawless chats to Psychotherapist, Sabrina Ginesi, who answers some questions from listeners.

Today on Feeling Good with Mary, Mary Larkin chats to Shannette Budhai, who is the Roscommon Volunteer Centre Manager, who talks about the importance of volunteering in the community, the Roscommon Volunteer Awards and how people can get involved in their community through volunteering.

On this week's Today with Adrianne Murphy, Dr. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation Ireland chats about Science Week which runs from the 12th - 19th November.

This week on Today with Adrianne Murphy, Sorcha Carty from the Higher Education Authority chats about a study - addressing the education/skills gap.

On this week's Today with Adrianne Murphy, Elle May Coen, Community Sports Hub Development Officer with Roscommon Sports Partnership chats about her work to promote and develop sport within community groups and schools.

Featured on this week's Friday Sport with Aidan Raftery; Sports Chat with Brian Colleran, Rugby View, CCFL with Mark McConnell and Inclusion Rugby.

Today on Feel Good Friday Joe Bambrick chats once again to writer, Clive Roe, who wrote a book on Boyle Church of Ireland's 250 year anniversary, history and celebration.

On Good Morning Roscommon Ciara Lawless spoke to Manager of Vision Ireland Shop, Ballinasloe, Barbara Coakley who spoke about the shop's fundraising efforts, the opening of the shop on the 6th of November, the local service users, staff and volunteers and the pre-loved clothes and accessories on offer.

Today on Inspired Lives Ciara Lawless chats to Fire Coach, Leadership Coach and business owner, Howard Hughes who chats about his work and business, leadership training and fire walking, inspiration and coaching.

Today on The Arts Programme Ursula Ledwith is joined by guests, Conor Montague who chats about his book 'Capital Vices', a book of little independent stories, Dympna Naughton from Roscommon Arts Centre, with updates on upcoming events, and gifts 4 tickets to be won fot Roscommon Arts Centre, Deirdre Kelly chats about Roscommon Drama Group, Calendar Girls, and Stuart Lawn & Shane Finan...

Roscommon's own contestant Eimear Noon did very well at the Miss Ireland contest at the weekend and she has been on RosFM during her campaign and she came in this week one final time to let the listeners know how she got on.

This week Emmett Corcoran and Seamus Duke discuss the latest on the local elections and the high costs affecting businesses in  the Corky and Dukie piece.

 In this weeks' Local History corner Gerry Shannon looks at the life and times of Roderick O'Connor- a Roscommon native and one of the greatest painters of the early 20th century.

 The ISPCC have launched a fund-raiser for Christmas to help fund their telephone service Childline- Laura Horan who is one of the chief fund-raisers for the ISPCC has been outlining the details.