Weather warning in place
A Status Yellow weather warning has been issued for the entire country. Met Eireann are predicting wind speed of upto 65km/h and gusts of upto 110km/h. The warning remains until 6pm this evening. The forecaster…
Irish Defence Forces deliver vaccines to west coast islands
The Irish Defence Forces delivered the first shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to islands off the west coast on Friday. Members of the the Irish Air Corps delivered the supplies to Arranmore Island off the Donegal…
Gardaí appealing for help after graffiti sprayed on church
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a church in Sligo had graffiti sprayed on it. The incident at the Holy Rosary Church in Kilmactigue occurred sometime between the 17th and 18th of February between the…
Funding announced to ease Sligo traffic disruption
Minister of State and Sligo/Leitrim TD Frank Feighan says the provision of a quarter million euro this week to prepare for construction of a proposed new bridge across the Garavogue River is another move toward…
€2m allocated to retrofit homes across the north west
Just over €2m has been allocated for the north west to bring 64 homes up to modern energy efficient standards. The money comes from the national €35m Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme for Social Housing with…
Smokey coal ban may leave many out in the cold
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is calling for support measures to be put in place for those that are using coal as primary source of heat in the event of a nationwide ban on smoky coal…
Pressure mounting on McConalogue to appoint regulator for beef industry
Pressure is increasing on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, to appoint an independent beef regulator. The Beef Plan Movement have reiterated their calls in recent days for the establishment…
