Extensive damage to dunes at County Sligo golf course following storm
Storm Eleanor caused extensive erosion damage to County Sligo Golf Club at Rosses Point earlier this week. Up to 300 metres of dunes was damaged in the poor weather and an area of the sixteenth…
Junior Minister’s pay hike for advisor ‘beggars belief’
A Donegal Sinn Fein TD has said it ‘beggars belief’ that a Junior Minister landed a €13,000 pay rise for one of her staff. Mary Mitchell O Connors two press advisers earn almost €200,000 a…
Sligo man living in New York says ‘Bomb Cyclone’ is the worst storm in his 40 years there
A Sligo man living in New York says the so-called ‘bomb cyclone’ hitting the East coast of the United States at present is the worst he’s seen in his over 40 years in the city.…
Sinn Fein Cllr says reports of device left in border area causing concern
A Sinn Fein Cllr in Fermanagh has said that a warning that suspicious object may have been left in the border areas of Belcoo and Garrison is causing concern in the area. It follows reports…
Leitrim mother appeals for more education on the impacts of drunken violence
A Leitrim mother whose son was killed as a result of a night-time assault in Mullingar 6 years ago says that children as young as twelve need to be taught the consequences of violent behaviour.…
Doctors practising ‘bad medicine’ by prescribing needless antibiotics
A Donegal GP has admitted that doctors are practicising ‘bad medicine’ by prescribing anti-biotics too often. Letterkenny-GP and former FF Minister Jim McDaid said earlier this week that schools should just close to avoid the…
Dozens turn out again as search continues for missing man from Coney Island
The seach is continuing today along the Sligo coastline for a 43-year old man now missing for five days. 43-year-old Michael McGowan from Coney Island has been missing since the evening of Friday 29th December.…