Counts four and five completed in Sligo-Strandhill
The fourth and fifth count have just been completed in the Sligo-Strandhill electoral area. No candidate was elected following the counts at The Sligo Park Hotel. None of the remaining candidates reached the quota of 1,188. Labour Party candidate Nessa Cosgrove has once again increased her vote, this time to…
Second count underway in Sligo-Strandhill
The second count is underway to elect candidates onto the Sligo-Strandhill electoral area of Sligo County Council. Earlier this evening, Independent Socialist candidate Declan Bree (1,537) and Tom MacSharry of Fianna Fáil (1,374) exceeded the quota of 1,188 following the first count and were deemed elected. As a…
Support for non traditional parties grows in Sligo-Strandhill
41.4% of voters in the Sligo-Strandhill electoral area gave their first preference vote to a candidate not from one of traditionally larger parties. According to tally figures, 3,454 of 8,342 voters avoided Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin or Labour in their first preference an increase from 3,154 in…
Cllr Sinead Maguire announces her decision not to run in local elections
The Fine Gael Cllr Sinead Maguire has confirmed that she will not be running in the local elections next year. The Sligo-Strandhill Councillor has been a member of the local authority since 2014. In 2019 she was selected to contest the General Election in the Sligo Leitrim Constituency…
Excuses relating to delays in pandemic recognition payments fail to wash with Sligo councillor
A Sligo Councillor has called for the immediate payment of the long-awaited pandemic recognition payment to nurses, midwives and other frontline workers It’s been claimed that Despite Government announcements and statements directly to the media that the pandemic recognition payment for frontline workers would be paid immediately, there are…
Car parking spaces at Strandhill shorefront set to be reduced
The numbers of car parking spaces along the shorefront at Strandhill will be reduced by about 20, after an agreement was reached in relation to the Development Plan for the area. The consensus reached on the matter is a case of common sense prevailing, according to Fianna Fail councillor,…
Sligo Councillor welcomes coordinated response to deal with Ukrainian refugee crisis.
A Sligo Councillor says local Authorities across the Country will face massive challenges when it comes to dealing with the to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Cllr Sinead Maguire says the Covid emergency response team should be reformed to deal with the crisis. She added that the provision of…