Marian Harkin nominated for MEP of the Year Award
A Midlands North West Member of the European Parliament has been nominated for MEP of the Year Award. Independent Sligo MEP Marian Harkin is one of three nominees for the award which covers economic and monetary affairs as well as taxation and budget issues. Ms Harkin has won the award…
Emotional scenes as funerals of four young Donegal crash victims take place today
The funerals of two of four young men killed in a tragic accident in Donegal have heard how the friends were taken in the prime of life. They lost their lives when the car they were travelling in left the road outside Gortahork on Sunday night. He had a good…
Crash on Hughes Bridge in Sligo town causing delays
An accident involving a lorry a van and a car is causing delays on Hughes Bridge in Sligo town this afternoon. Motorists are asked to avoid the area for the next 30 minutes if possible and they are being asked to divert via Markievicz Road. Gardai say nobody was injured…
TD says Juvenile Diversion Programme not appropriate in cases of serious sexual assault
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is asking that the Juvenile Diversion Programme not be used in cases of serious sexual assault involving young people. Sinn Fein Martin Kenny told the Dail of how three boys were only cautioned under the programme after an alleged sexual assault of a young girl at a…
Obituaries, Thursday, January 31st, 1pm
Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths: Gerard Mc Loughlin, Rosses Point Miriam Devaney Sligo Annie Curneen, Kinlough Evelin McDivitt, Carrick Gerard Mc Loughlin, Lower Rosses, Rosses Point, Co. Sligo. At the Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, London. Funeral arrangements…
Ballyshannon woman at centre of loan dispute with friends will be repaid, insists solicitor
The High Court ruled this week that a sum of 280,000 euro given by Ballyshannon woman, Della Kerrigan, to her friends, John and Jacqueline Keenaghan, in 2010 was a loan, and not a gift, as the Keenaghans had claimed. Solicitor, Damien Tansey, whose practice represented Ms. Kerrigan in court, insists…
Drumfin to Riverstown road reopened to local traffic
The Ballymote-Drumfin Road in Sligo has re-opened to local traffic after two lorries went off the road there this morning. Heavy goods vehicles are advised to travel by the national route as the road is still extremely slippy. Motorists are being advised to exercise extreme caution on untreated…