President’s Award for Fr Seán Ó’Gallchoir
Donegal’s Fr Seán Ó’Gallchoir has been named as a recipient of the GAA’s President’s Awards. The Ghradaim an Uachtaráin winners for 2021 were announced by Croke Park on Friday. The 11 awards are a cross-section of people who have shared the common theme of making an inspirational impact on their code and also their club and community. Fr…
Sligo needs overall plan, with a quarter of all commercial premises now vacant it’s claimed
Business and community leaders need to work together and focus on economic solutions to resolve Sligo Town’s commercial vacancy problems. That’s according to the CEO of Geo Directory, whose latest property report shows that 1 in 4 commercial premises in the town are vacant OceanFM Ireland · Sligo needs…
Tubbercurry Families feeling their way through Covid
The Tubbercurry Family and Childcare Resource Centre have launched a new booklet “Families feeling their way through Covid 19” The booklet is a collaboration project by Tubbercurry FRC and is part of Sligo’s Covid Community Resilience Plan’s- The publication is designed to help families deal with the extra…
European payment breaks not reactivated in Ireland
The government have been criticised for refusing to provide relief for mortgage holders, despite the European Regulator allowing for the reactivation of Covid-19 payment breaks since December. With level 5 restrictions set to continue until at least April, the Donegal TD Padraig MacLochalin says that following the move by…
Parent appeals for bus route from Rathcormac to Carbury School to be restored
Ada Cunningham has two young sons attending Carbury National School in Sligo Town but she’s not happy that the bus route taking them to school from their home in Rathcormac has been changed. She feels the family have a solid case for the school bus to continue to pick up…
Healy calls for Post office reviews to be scrapped
A Sligo Councillor has called for An Post to scrap it’s plans to review the viability of post offices this summer in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sligo Drumcliff Councillor Thomas Healy is calling for Post Office contracts need to be extended to cover lockdown periods. The Sinn…
Slight increase in 14 day rate for Co. Leitrim
There has been an increase in the 14 day incidence rate per 100,000 people in Co. Leitrim while one local electoral area in the north west remains above the national average of 226.1. The latest daily figures show less than 5 new cases were recorded in Sligo, 23 in Donegal…