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More clarity is needed regarding the Governments student accommodation plans.   That’s according to Independent Sligo Leitrim TD Marc MacSharry, who was reacting to yesterday’s announcement that more than 2,700 affordable student accommodation beds will be built on college campuses across the country in the next five years.   Sligo…

Gardai have made a further appeal for information over this week’s fatal road traffic collision in County Sligo.   Local man Anthony Connolly, who was in 50s, was killed when the e-scooter he was on collided with a van near Riverstown on Wednesday night.   The driver of the van,…

Planxty legend Andy Irvine, Leitrim fiddle/viola player Ultan O’Brien, and bestselling children’s author, Shane Hegarty, are this week’s guests on a packed show covering events at The Glens, The Dock, The Hawk’s Well & Allingham Arts Festival.

This week, Agri Week makes the trip to Castle Dargan for the IFA’s Connacht Regional Chairperson hustings.   Ronan Flanagan gets to know the two candidates, Kinlough-based James Gallagher and Brendan Golden from Killala, who outline why they feel they should be elected Chairperson.   Two members of the Current…

Swimmer Mona McSharry and boxer Dean Clancy are two Sligo competitors already on the Team Ireland plane to the Paris Olympics next summer. Could Ennisrone showjumper Richard Howley be joining them? His back-to-back Grand prix victories in Norway and Finland have moved him firmly into he Olympic reckoning. Richard joins…

Donegal’s Chloe Magee has been appointed as Badminton Ireland’s first Women in Sport and National Development Manager. The Raphoe woman, who’s a three-time Olympian for Ireland (2008, 2012 & 2016), will help promote gender equality across the sport in Ireland by placing women and girls at the heart of grassroots…