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The Government has approved over €200,000 to Leitrim County Council, under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works & Coastal Protection Scheme. The funding is being provided to carry out flood prevention works on the Southwest side of the road at Leitrim Village. It will include the construction of a containment structure…

The Sligo – Drumcliffe Fine Gael selection Convention takes place later tonight.   It gets underway at 8.30pm in the Sligo Park Hotel.   Sitting Cllrs Thomas Walsh and Tom Fox will be seeking nominations from the party.   Meanwhile the Fine Gael Ballymote Tubbercurry selection convention takes place on…

There’s been a drugs seizure worth over 195 thousand euro in County Cavan.   Gardai­ have found 244 cannabis plants during searches of a home in Arva yesterday.   They discovered a growhouse and arrested two men in their 20s who are being held at a garda station in Cavan.…

The Treasurer of Sligo Rovers David Rowe and the belt-tightening that lies ahead at the Showgrounds. We’ll play you extracts from his interview with the Bit of Red Supporters Trust this week. A former Rovers player is celebrating a League of Ireland winners medal with Shamrock Rovers. We’ll hear from…

Sligo based poet, Maeve McKenna, discusses and reads from her new collection Body as a Home For This Darkness, a beautiful, poignant look at dementia. Leitrim actor/playwright/director, Charlie McGuinness, discusses his new One Man comedy, The Determinator, by John McManus. It plays The Glens December 2nd. And we look at…

The Vice Chair of the IFA Sheep Committee Adrian Gallagher has been elected Chair of the Sheep Committee.   At a meeting in the Irish Farm Centre today, the Chair of the Sheep Committee and Leitrim native Kevin Comiskey announced that he was stepping down as he has decided to…