Registrar of Credit Unions cancels Ballinamore Credit Union registration in Leitrim

The Registrar of Credit Unions has cancelled the registration of Ballinamore Credit Union Limited, the Co. Leitrim credit union registered as number 236 CU, according to a notice published in Iris Oifigiúil No. 80 of 6 October 2026. The cancellation was registered under Section 97(2)(a) of the Credit Union Act 1997 (as amended) and is dated 2 October 2026. The entry appears among the official announcements of the Central Bank of Ireland in the gazette.

The Registrar of Credit Unions is the statutory officer within the Central Bank of Ireland (Banc Ceannais na hÉireann) responsible for the registration and supervision of credit unions in the State. The notice is issued from the bank’s offices at PO Box 559, New Wapping Street, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, and is signed by Elaine Byrne, Registrar of Credit Unions. The gazette entry is headed “Notice of Cancellation of Registration” and sits in the financial and regulatory notices carried in the issue.

What the notice states

• Name of credit union: Ballinamore Credit Union Limited.
• Registration number: 236 CU.
• Registered office: Main Street, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.
• Statutory basis: Section 97(2)(a) of the Credit Union Act 1997 (as amended).
• Action: cancellation of registration registered by the Registrar of Credit Unions.
• Date of the notice: 2 October 2026.
• Signatory: Elaine Byrne, Registrar of Credit Unions.

The wording is short and formal: the registrar gives notice that, pursuant to the section cited, a Cancellation of Registration was registered “this day” in respect of the credit union. Beyond the identity of the union, its registration number, its registered office and the legal provision applied, the entry carries no further detail.

Wider regulatory notices in the same issue

The cancellation appears alongside other financial notices from the Central Bank of Ireland in the same edition. Under Section 16(1) of the Investment Intermediaries Act 1995, the bank revoked the authorisation of investment business firms at the request of the firms themselves:

• Colm Kelly
• Fingal Life & Investments Limited
• Brian Hamilton
• James Keappock

The same revocation is carried in Irish as “Cúlghairm ar Údarú Gnólachtaí Infheistíochta”. The issue also carries High Court and Law Society of Ireland notices, the Insurance Ireland unclaimed life assurance policies notice, and statutory instruments made by Government departments, including S.I. No. 502 of 2026 on restrictive measures concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo and S.I. No. 503 of 2026 on the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 property vesting day.

What the notice does not say

The entry does not state the reasons for the cancellation, nor does it set out any arrangements for the union’s members, depositors or borrowers. It contains no figures, no deadline for claims and no contact point for affected members. Any such information would have to come from the Central Bank of Ireland or from the credit union itself, not from the gazette text.

For readers in Ballinamore and the surrounding parts of Co. Leitrim, the practical effect is that the local credit union’s registration has been formally cancelled and recorded in the State’s official publication for statutory and regulatory notices. The entry is the authoritative public record of the decision: it fixes the identity of the union, the registration number, the registered office and the statutory power used, and it dates the action to 2 October 2026. Members and depositors who need to know what happens next should treat the gazette entry as the starting point and direct their questions to the Central Bank of Ireland.

Source: Iris Oifigiúil, No. 80, 6 October 2026, section I (official reference: IR061026).