Councillor claims some auctioneers don’t want house tenants who are on support schemes
A Sligo councillor wants to know why some estate agents and auctioneers will not accept housing tenants who are on on the Housing Assistance Payment Scheme, known as HAP. The payment is a form of…
McHugh wants fire service personnel to be given 1916 medals
There are calls from a Donegal TD for the government to recognise the role Fire Service Personnel played in 1916. Donegal TD and Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development, Joe McHugh, is…
South Sligo school gets funding for extension
A national school in Sligo has been allocated funding for an extension. St. Ronan’s National School in Cloonloo has been given funding by the Department of Education to build a new special education teacher support…
New jobs at tool and machinery hire firm
There’s a number of new jobs coming on stream in Sligo. MP Hire has opened recently on the Old Dublin Road Business Park, Carraroe, creating five jobs. For over 50 years, the Mullane name has…
TD claims ‘bureaucracy and red tape’ holding up improvement of Lough Talt Water Scheme
An Independent TD is claiming that EU and government red tape is preventing Irish Water from carrying out improvements to a water scheme that serves 10,000 people from Lough Talt in the West Sligo area.…
19 years after elderly man’s murder, Gardai renew appeal for information
Gardai are launching a new appeal for any information that might help them in their investigation into the murder 19 years ago this week of 83-year old South Sligo man Edward Fitzmaurice. His body was…
HSE responds to TD’s comments on hospital unit
The HSE has responded to a statement from a Sligo/Leitrim Dail Deputy in which he described conditions at a unit in St John’s Hospital in Sligo last November as ‘shameful.’ Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny…
