Disability campaigner claims wheelchair users are forgotten about on trains.
A disability campaigner from Ballyshannon says wheelchair users are being forgotten about on trains. She says wheelchair users, people with mobility issues and buggies cannot access dart stations because of lifts not working and people with disabilities in general cannot use unmanned stations. Vicky Matthew – who is…
Meat factories stand in solidarity with beef farmers
Dawn meats in Ballyhaunis will not kill any more cattle from today in response to the governments climate plan to cut herds by 53%. The Beef Plan Movement held a ‘no trade day’ nationwide on Monday. Gerry Pilkington is the Chairman of the Sligo branch of the Beef Plan Movement.…
43 people waiting on a hospital bed in north west
There are 43 people waiting on a hospital bed in the north-west today. That’s according to the Irish nurses and Midwives Organisation Trolley Watch figures. It shows that 20 people are waiting on a bed at Sligo University Hospital while the number stands at 23 in Letterkenny University Hospital. There…
Dwelling numbers on the increase in the north west
There are now almost 990 more dwellings in the north west than they were a year ago. That’s according to figures just released by GeoDirectory, a database established by An Post and the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. These figures were obtained through a combination of the An Post network of…
Taoiseach’s comments on central bank welcomed by local credit union representative
A local representative from the League of Credit unions has welcomed recent comments made by the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar calling on the Central Bank to loosen strict mortgage-lending rules to help young couples caught in the so-called ‘rent trap’. In a more which was not keeping with tradition the…
Plans to mark centenary of mutiny in India by members of Connacht Rangers regiment of British Army
Plans are being made in Sligo to mark the centenary next year of a mutiny by members the British Army’s Connacht Rangers regiment in India. The mutiny occurred in June 1920 when news reached India about the atrocities and violence that had been happening in Ireland. Mary Henry’s grandfather, James…
Obituaries, Tuesday July 30th, 1pm
Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths: Bernadette Dougan, Sligo Marion Gallagher, Ballyshannon Catherine Niland, Dublin and Sligo Eugene Gallagher, Sligo Bernadette Dougan, (nee Rooney) of 9 Nazareth Village, Sligo and formerly of 1 St. Joseph’s Tce,…