Deposits yet to be returned to students affected by Sligo accommodation debacle
The president of the ATU Sligo Students’ Union is warning that students are being left ‘frustrated’ and ‘anxious’ as a significant amount of student accommodation will no longer be available from September. It was confirmed this month that between four and five hundred students lived in the Benbulben and Milligan…
North West vulnerable to economic hit this summer
A Sligo councillor says the high dependency that the north west region has on tourism will leave the local region more vulnerable to the impact of the economy suffering a €1.1bn hit due to the lack of hotel accommodation this summer, with the ongoing challenge of housing refugees. The Irish…
Concerns raised by Sligo Leitrim TD over accommodation for Ukrainian refugees
A Sligo Leitrim TD has raised concern over a plan by Government to provide accommodation to Ukrainian refugees going forward. It’s one of a number of measures which have been announced in a bid to move from a crisis response to a “more mainstream approach”. However it has led to…