Sligo Rovers players will be hitting the streets next week to support Aware during their national fundraiser – Daisy Days. Aware are the official partner charity of Sligo Rovers and their logo is sported on the U-18, U-20 and A Team training gear and tracksuits. Sligo Rovers first team players also wear warm up [...]
MEPs in Strasbourg have requested a moratorium on the full implementation of an upcoming EU law on the postal services, amid concerns that it could cause significant job losses in the sector. The European directive due to come into force on 1st January 2011 would liberalise the postal market throughout the bloc, but MEPs want [...]
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Labour Party Health spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan TD, hosted a round table discussion in Galway at the weekend to discuss the cuts in HSE West’s budget. Dail candidate for Sligo/North Leitrim Susan O’Keeffe said after the meeting:
Fine Gael Small Business Spokesman John Perry TD has called on Green Minister Eamon Ryan to reverse the decision to recommence the Public Service Order levy on electricity from the first of October this year.
The 2010 EA SPORTS Cup final will take place in Sligo’s The Showgrounds on Saturday, September 25th, it was confirmed last evening. Sligo Rovers will host Monaghan United in the final of the 2010 EA SPORTS Cup in a match which will be screened live on Setanta Ireland (kick-off 5.30pm).
The continuing toll on the regional news sector came into sharp focus again today with the announcement f the closure of three midland papers – the Roscommon Champion, the Longford News and the Athlone Voice. While the ‘Voice’ is a paper of more recent origin, the Roscommon Champion and the Lonford News are local institutions [...]
Summerhill College in Sligo is now set to progress to the tender and construction stage after the design stage approval by the Department of Education and Skills. Welcoming the news, Sligo North Leitrim Deputy Eamon Scanlon said; “I am delighted that the Summerhill College has now been approved to go to tender.” “A new school is [...]
A TEENAGE schoolboy who collapsed due to a bleed in his brain three times in the past six weeks is fighting to stay in a hospital bed while he awaits surgery. Sligo General Hospital wants David Murtagh to stay at home nearby so his bed is readily available for a more urgent case. Doctors at [...]
A large number of additional areas throughout the country are being evaluated with the objective of designating them ‘Special Areas’ under the EU Birds and Habitats Directives. This was stated by Marian Harkin MEP when she urged individuals and representative bodies to be vigilant about extensions to designated areas under the EU Birds and [...]
There was more than a gasp of surprise when Sligo Rovers were drawn at home this evening against Monaghan United in the quarter finals of the Ford FAI Cup – the same opponents they are to meet in the EA Sports Cup final. Airtricity League Premier Division leaders Shamrock Rovers have been given a home [...]
Gardaí in Claremorris are investigating a fatal road traffic collision between a car and a van on the 30th of August 2010. It occurred between 2.30pm and 2.45pm on the main Claremorris to Ballyhaunis road (N60) at the townland of Cuilmore. Gardai have this evening named the man killed in this afternoons crash, as 61 [...]
MP for Fermanagh South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew has called for the two main postal service providers that operate in Ireland to work together to improve the cross border postal service. Ms Gildernew said: “Despite the fact we all live on one small island, postal consumers in the north face an average delivery time of between [...]
A 54-YEAR-OLD mother who was on her way to work in a well-known restaurant was killed at a notorious accident blackspot in Co Sligo yesterday morning. The dead woman was named locally as Karen Mounsey, who ran the restaurant at King House, a restored 18th Century Georgian mansion in Boyle, Co Roscommon. She and her [...]
Gardaí at Ballymote, Co. Sligo, are investigating a fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the N4 at Drumfin, Riverstown at approximately 9am this morning, 28th August 2010. Two cars travelling in opposite directions collided, resulting in the death of one of the drivers, a female in her 60′s. She was pronounced dead at scene. [...]
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