Census: 23,000 homes in the North West don’t have internet access
Almost ten per cent of homes across Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim still don’t have internet access. The most recent set of figures from Census 2016, just released reveal that of a population of 257,000 people in the region – 23,000 don’t have online access. In County Donegal, 14,561 households do…
Dramatic drop in young people in the North West region
Mullaghamore and Ballyshannon have some of the oldest people in the region while Carney in county Sligo has one of the youngest populations. Those are some of the details emerging from the latest figures from last year’s census which have been published today. The most striking trend in this region…
North West bucks the national trend of an increasing Traveller population
The number of Travellers in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim is falling. The latest figures from Census 2016 show 586 Irish Travellers lived in County Donegal in April 2016, a fall of more than 19% since 2011. There were 383 Travellers living in Sligo, a decline of more than 7% in…