Public meeting to be held over proposed EU Nature Restoration Laws
A public meeting regarding the proposed EU Nature Restoration Laws is getting underway this weekend. Independent TDs, Deputy Marian Harkin, Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice and Deputy Michael McNamara, will be hosting the event. The meeting will focus on the specific aspect of land re-wetting. It will take place…
Family Day at Sligo Races this Sunday
This Sunday, July 9th, is Family Day at Sligo Races. A seven-race National Hunt card begins at 2pm with the Killyhevlin Lakeside Hotel & Lodges Maiden Hurdle. The feature race will be the Irish EBF and Kilcawley Construction Mares Handicap Hurdle of €17,500 at 3:10pm. Scruffy Duffy is with us…
‘Soft’ Yes voters in abortion referendum didn’t realise what would happen – Sligo pro-life activist
Sligo pro-life activist, Fionnuala Woods, says she believes there are significant numbers who voted Yes in the referendum abortion in 2018, who did not realise it would lead to such a rise in the numbers of abortions being carried out. She was one of a large number of people from…
Donegal TD questions if there will be resignations at RTE
A Donegal TD has asked for further clarity as to whether there will be resignations as a result of the RTE payments scandal. It comes as RTÉ barter account figures show the broadcaster spent almost 5,000 euro on flip flops for a summer party in 2016 among a wider…
Daniel O’Donnell to donate profits from Bundoran concert to Creeslough victims’ families
Daniel O’Donnell has told Ocean FM that he will be donating all profits from his concert in the Great Northern Hotel in Bundoran on 17th August next to the families of the victims of the Creeslough explosion. He’s been speaking about what he’s been up to of late and his…
Eanna Clancy leaves Sligo Rovers for UCD football scholarship
Sligo Rovers have confirmed that defender Eanna Clancy has left the club to take up a full-time football scholarship with UCD. Clancy, who’s 19, joined Rovers’ Academy from Manorhamilton Rangers and signed his first professional contract last August, making 16 appearances, scoring once against Cork City earlier this season at…
Three men arrested over Sligo assaults
Three men have been arrested in Sligo this morning in connection with a number of assaults and public order offences which happened in the town this week. A number of men, aged in their 20s, were taken to Sligo University Hospital in the early hours of Monday morning to…