Obituaries, Tuesday, April 9th, 8am
Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths: Andrew Dolan, England, formerly of Carrowmore, Sligo Carmel Clooney, Sligo Thomas Calpin, Ballyshannon Bernadette Coen, Dromahair and England Peter Cooney, Sligo Christina Gunning, Collooney Francie Kelly, Dromahair Sean Sweeney, Strandhill …
Euro candidate says gay ‘conversion therapy’ programmes are ‘repulsive and offensive’
A European election candidate for the Midlands North West Constituency is seeking a ban on gay conversion programmes. The therapy claims to try to change an individual’s sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual. Labour’s Dominic Hannigan says recent media reports that these types of programmes are operating in…
Work to start soon on Donegal Town garda station
Contractors have been appointed for €2.5m worth of improvement works on Donegal Town Garda Station. It’s expected Boyle Contractors will start the work shortly after Easter. Donegal Fianna Fail TD Pat the Cope Gallagher said the work is long awaited.
Leitrim Club Championship draws for 2019 are made
The draw for the 2019 Leitrim Connacht Gold senior club football championship was made on Monday evening in the Bush Hotel in Carrick-on-Shannon. The 12 senior clubs in the county have, once again, been divided into two groups of six. County Champions Aughawillan have been drawn in Group B along…
The Youth Soccer Podcast with Tina Beirne 07/04/2019
Listen back to Tina Beirne’s Youth Soccer Podcast on Ocean FM Sport last Sunday, which was broadcast live from the West of Ireland Open Golf Championship at Rosses Point. The Ocean FM Youth Soccer podcast is broadcast every Sunday on Ocean FM Sport at 5:45pm. To contact Tina, email…
Margaret Gormley remembered as ‘a woman of great integrity and principle, small in stature but with the heart of a lion’
The funeral has taken place of the veteran South Sligo councillor Margaret Gormley. Following Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Bunninadden this afternoon, she was laid to rest in Cloonameehan Cemetery, not far from her home in the townland of Carrowloughlin, between Ballymote and Tubbercurry. Margaret Gormley…
Inquest hears man killed 12 years ago in Sligo died ‘from catastrophic injuries to the head’
An inquest in Sligo has heard that a 23-year old man who died after having been attacked in the town almost 12 years ago died from catastrophic injuries to the head. The inquest into the death of Tom Ward was opened in Sligo courthouse this morning to formally ascertain the…