McGinley family have moved out of Connaughton Road Car Park
After more than 30 years, the McGinley family have finally moved out of the Connaughton Road Car Park in Sligo Town. Four generations of the extended Traveller family have lived in the publicly-owned, local authority car park. For years, there have been unsuccessful efforts to find alternative accommodation acceptable to…
New car park to open in Ballymote
A local councillor in the Ballymote/Tubbercurry Municipal District has allocated a new car park to the town of Ballymote. The new 54 space car park will be located on Lord Edward Street in the town in order to help businesses, relief traffic congestion on the main streets and enhance the…
Sligo council says it’s doing its best to find a just solution to car park Traveller issue
A Sligo county council official says he does not see the long-running issue over a Traveller family living in a public car park in Sligo town as having now developed into a legal dispute between the sides. That’s despite the fact there are now legal representatives acting for both the…
Sligo councillor hopes resolution will soon be found to Connaughton Road car park issue
A Sligo councillor says he hopes there may now be ‘a beginning to the end’ of what he describes as ‘the long-running saga’ involving families living in caravans at Connaughton Road Car Park in the town. The issue of families continuing to live in the public car park came into…
New pedestrian crossing confirmed in Sligo Town
A new pedestrian crossing at the entrance to the wine st car park is on the plans for Sligo county council. A motion asking on the issue was raised at today’s Sligo municipal district meeting by Fianna Fail’s Tom MacSharry. The councillor said that it is a particularly dangerous area…