Sligo colleges receive funding to support mental health among students
Over 700,000 euros worth of funding has been allocated to IT Sligo and St Angela’s College. Nationally €17.2m has been announced in student supports, with €5m being allocated to support students mental health and wellbeing. The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD earlier…
Brexit a factor in agri haulage and labour shortage
A Sinn Féin MLA is claiming that the current labour shortages in agri-food and haulage are a direct result of the Brexit delivered by the Tories and the DUP. The Fermanagh & South Tyrone MLA, Jemma Dolan brought a motion to the Assembly today which called for action to end…
Not in our name – Doherty slams Government attendance at Partition event
Sinn Fein TD, Pearse Doherty, has slammed the Government decision to send two representatives to the event marking 100 years since the partition of Ireland, Deputy Doherty says no country in the world would commemorate an ‘invasion’ of its lands OceanFM Ireland · Not in our name – Doherty…
McHugh: Banks were bailed out so why not Mica victims?
A Donegal TD says the owners of crumbling mica homes deserve a bailout as urgent as the banks got during the financial crash. The government’s set to outline an updated defective building block scheme in the coming weeks, and homeowners are demanding 100 percent redress. The total cost has been…
Belcoo chicken farm fire ‘one of worst incidents to have happened in the area’
A local councillor has described a fire that killed about 16,000 chickens on a farm near Belcoo, Co Fermanagh as ‘one of the worst incidents of its kind’ that he could remember happening in the area. The fire occurred in a shed on Marble Arch Road, Belcoo on Sunday morning. The…
High numbers again waiting for beds in NW hospitals
The two main hospitals in the north west are again among those with the highest number of patients waiting for beds. There are 47 waiting on trolleys for beds in Letterkenny University Hospital. Thirty-one patients are waiting in Sligo University Hospital. Overall throughout the country today, 477 people are waiting…
Tanaiste says Bank of Ireland branch closures are a sign of the times
The future of jobs are digital, and green – that’s according to Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar. He made his comments on a visit to Strandhill on Friday evening, and says the various Bank of Ireland branch closures that day, while sad, are a sign…