Farmers want retailers to pay poultry producers by weight
The IFA’s poultry chairman has called on retailers to pay poultry producers for their products by weight, not by classification. Under the current arrangement chickens are classified as small, medium and large and poultry farmers…
Labour Party selects its Euro candidate for the region
The Labour Party has a selected its candidate to run in the Midlands North West constituency for the European Parliament elections in May. Dominic Hannigan was selected at the party’s selection convention in Mullingar yesterday…
Group campaigning to save a post office in north Sligo appeals for support
A group campaigning to save a post office in North Sligo is appealing to people to attend a public meeting in the area tonight. Ballinful Post Office was closed last August and members of the…
Political parties continuing to select candidates for local elections
The political parties are continuing to select their candidates to run in the local elections this coming May. Fine Gael and Sinn Fein have been selecting candidates in Sligo and Leitrim over the weekend while…
Four men who died in Donegal crash named
The four men killed in a crash in Donegal last night have been named. A small community in Gortahork has been left shocked following the deaths of John Harley, Michéal Roarty, Sean Harkin, and Daniel…
Maguire expected to replace Campbell on Donegal council this afternoon
A new councillor is expected to be co-opted onto Donegal County Council this afternoon. He’s Drimarone-based teacher Seamus Maguire who due to replace Independent Councillor John Campbell, who has decided to step down from the…
80th anniversary of Yeats’s death to be marked in Drumcliffe this evening, Monday
An evening of music and poetry will take place in Drumcliffe this evening to mark the 80th anniversary of the death of the Nobel Prize-winning poet W B Yeats. Starting at 7:30pm in Drumcliffe church…
