The process of planning the future for Ballinode’s buzzing community got underway with a lively discussion in Ballinode community hall on Thursday 6th December 2018. All present agreed that the area would benefit from pulling all the many projects under development together into one Plan, and it was agreed to revisit the Community Needs Survey conducted last summer by Billy Flynn, and to use this as a starting point. All groups and individuals will be invited to submit their thoughts in the New Year.

A series of community meetings provided local groups and individuals with the opportunity to feed their ideas into the planning process, where they were combined with data from the Census of Population and a visioning exercise which helped the people of Ballinode to imagine the community they wished to see themselves living in ten years from now, to help the community to identify issues and projects which would help them to get to where they wanted to go.   These then became the actions in the Community Plan, which was launched by Minister Heather Humphreys in June 2022.

Ballinode Community Plan 2022 – 2027

Since embarking on this journey together, the Council and community have been successful in securing funding for the following projects in the village:’

  • put these in:
    • Ballinode Church Hall  – Community Centre Investment Fund –            €24,830  hall refurbishment
    • Ballinode Community Projects –  LEADER – €137,572 – build new community centre
    • Ballinode Community Projects – Town & Village – €500,000 – build new community centre
    • Monaghan County Council – Outdoor Recreation Fund – €50,000  –  Ballinode to Scotstown walkway link
    • Monaghan Rugby Club – Sports Capital – €44.520 – building upgrade