Deputy Kenny: ‘Forestry replacing people’
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is claiming that forestry is replacing people in rural Ireland. Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny says that where land is planted with trees, it is taken up for 60 years, with detrimental…
N16 accident: Person taken to hospital with ‘non-life-threatening’ injuries
One person was taken to hospital following a crash on the N16 yesterday. The crash happened yesterday afternoon at Gortnagregory near Glencar and the road was closed for a while. The driver of the single-vehicle…
OPW meeting on flooding in Carrick on Shannon this morning
Anyone affected by flooding is invited to attend an event hosted by the Office of Public Works in Leitrim later this morning. The Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group is holding its second…
School buses: No policy change but bus sizes may be reduced, runs amalgamated
A Bus Eireann spokesperson has acknowledged that there might be a reduction in school bus sizes or an amalgamation of bus runs. There has been concern that because of a downsizing of school buses, there…
N16 reopens following crash
The N16 has reopened following a crash. It happened earlier at Gortnagregory near Glencar and the road was closed for a while. The driver of the single-vehicle collision was taken to hospital with ‘non-life-threatening’ injuries.…
N16 closed at Glencar following crash
The main N16 Sligo to Manorhamilton road is closed just outside Gortnagregory near Glencar in Sligo this evening following a crash. The single vehicle crash happened earlier this afternoon. The emergency services remain at the…
Leitrim IFA to hold meeting on the future of farming tonight
Leitrim IFA are holding an important meeting on the future of farming in the county this evening in Drumshanbo. The four TDs from Sligo Leitrim along with councillors and public representative have been invited along…
