Confusion and uncertainty over Department payments to Sligo County Council
The chief executive of Sligo County Council has hit out at the Department of Local Government for ‘changing the goalposts’ in the Council’s effort to clear its huge debts. The Council has already received €2m in bailouts and another million is due in the coming weeks. But CEO Ciaran Hayes…
Sit-in at Department of Agriculture offices continue
Day three of a sit-in at the Department of Agriculture offices is underway. The protest is by tillage farmers who are not happy with reports of a proposed cap of €5000 on the amount farmers would be paid from the government’s crisis fund. The tillage crisis fund was announced last…