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The Minister for Housing Simon Coveney will be in Sligo later to officially launch the East Sligo regeneration plan. The plan which is being head led by Sligo County Council looks at the Social, physical and economic regeneration of the area. It will try and increase education for local communities…

A total of about one and three-quarter million euro has been awarded to counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal in CLAR funding. Donegal will get a total of €879,000; Sligo €599,000 and Leitrim €275,000. Much of the money is going to road safety measures such as signage and lights near schools.…

Work on stablising a 15th Century church in Killybegs, Co Donegal, has been finished for this season. The work, at the Church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, involved clearing and levelling the floor of the old building to make it safe for people to visit. The church, with a graveyard…

Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths:   Walter Kivlehan, Lavagh Tommy McLoughlin, Garrison Martin Gilroy, Sligo Mick Mullaney, Keash Patricia Garrity, Enniskillen Tom Leonard, Ballinfull Rosaleen McDonagh, Sligo Sister Margaret McGrath, Monaghan   Walter Kivlehan, Cloondrihara, Lavagh, Ballymote, Co. Sligo. Peacefully at Sligo University Hospital. Former officer…

Changes to the Bus Eireann’s Expressway service would result in the death knell of rural bus services. That’s according to Dermot O Leary, general secretary of the National Bus and Rail Union which is launching a nationwide campaign against a so-called restructuring of the service. As part of the campaign,…

There are 37 people waiting for hospital beds in the north west today according to the latest trolley watch report. University Hospital Letterkenny has 28 waiting for a bed with 16 on trolleys and a further 12 waiting in the overflow area of wards. University Hospital Sligo has nine people…

The winners of the Donegal county final in the Irish Best Young Entrepreneur Awards were announced at an event in Letterkenny last night. The IBYE is an initiative of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Enterprise Ireland, and is run by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices across the…