Sligo Councillor hopeful rural areas will be included in Local Hackney scheme
A Sligo Councillor is hopeful rural areas in county Sligo will be included in the Local Hackney Pilot Scheme. The scheme is a grant-aided pilot programme that aims to assist in the provision of part-time local hackney services in designated rural areas which cannot support a full time taxi or…
Lack of resources for ambulances crews to deploy from Ballymote
A Sligo councillor has been told that parking bays for ambulances at a new Primary Health Care Centre in the south of the county cannot be used by ambulance crews because of lack of resources at present. At this week’s Regional Health Forum West meeting in Galway, Fine Gael Councillor…
King says belief is back with Harps ahead of county final
Manager Shane King says the current crop of players have got the belief back in Eastern Harps with their progress to this year’s Belfry Senior Championship final. Harps contested four finals in a row within the last decade, but the last of those came back in 2010. It has been…
Gardai making plans to search South Sligo land owned by Eamon Cooke
Gardai are believed to be making plans to search land in South Sligo that was allegedly owned by the late Eamon Cooke, a suspect in the disappearance of 13-years Dublin schoolboy Philip Cairns 30 years ago. The land is in Kilmactigue, near Aclare and is located down a road near the…