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Laurence McKeown was one of the H Block hunger strikers in the Maze Prison in 1981, whose life was saved after the intervention of his family, after 70 days with no food. He’s to launch his new book, ‘Time Shadows – A Prison Memoir’ in Sligo on Saturday   OceanFM…

What has been delivered for Sligo University Hospital by successive Governments over the last decade has been little to none.   That’s according to Sligo Leitrim TD Martin Kenny who was speaking in the Dail as part of statements under the Health Insurance Amendment Bill,   Deputy Kenny also believes…

Commuters from parts of south Sligo will have further options of commuting to the capital from this month.   A new early morning train service between Ballina and Dublin will commence on Monday week, December 12.   The service will depart from Ballina at 5.05am and will arrive in Heuston…

Some ESB poles have become a nuisance in the Sligo area.   That’s according to Cllr Arthur Gibbons who says that following recent roadworks and improvements, some of the poles are now too close to the main road.   Cllr Gibbons says that in some cases, it has resulted in…

Seven years after being handed a life sentence for murder, Graham Dwyer is due to appeal his conviction later this morning.   Earlier this year, he won a significant challenge against a law in relation to the indiscriminate retention of mobile phone metadata.   In 2015, Graham Dwyer was found…