Burst water main affecting supply in south Sligo
A burst water main is causing disruption to water in south Sligo. The affected areas are Monesteraden, Kilfree, Moygara, Moydough, Cloonloo, Gurteen Village and surrounding areas in Co. Sligo. Repair works are currently being carried out by Irish Water and are due to be completed by 4pm this afternoon. The…
Planned Power outages in County Sligo
Power is out in a number of homes and businesses in County Sligo. There are planned outages in the Collooney area which is affecting 17 customers with the the power to be restored by 5 pm this evening. There is are outages in Gorteen which is affecting 13 customers and…
Gardai investigate South Sligo ‘burglary incident’
Gardai are investigating a ‘burglary incident’ that occurred yesterday evening at Cloonloo, Gurteen, in South Sligo. Two men were stopped, arrested by gardaí in Tubbercurry and brought to Ballymote Garda Station. Road closures were in place and traffic was diverted as a result.
Three due in court over Sligo drugs seizure
Three people are due to appear in court this morning charged in relation to a drug seizure in south Sligo. Gardaí arrested three people, a man and a woman in their 30s and a man in his late 20s after seizing cannabis herb and cannabis plants. The drugs, with an…
Sligo farmer and former GAA coach jailed for 7 years for indecent assaults
A Sligo farmer has been jailed for seven years for dozens of indecent assaults on two young boys in the 1970s. Former Gaelic football coach Ronan McCormack (75) went on to groom and abuse schoolboys as young as ten in the 1980s. In 2014 he received a seven-year-and-ten-month jail sentence…
South Sligo school gets funding for extension
A national school in Sligo has been allocated funding for an extension. St. Ronan’s National School in Cloonloo has been given funding by the Department of Education to build a new special education teacher support room. Senator Frank Feighan says that ‘projects such as these help to stimulate economic activity…
Two fires in the region overnight
Gardai were alerted to a blaze at Aurivo at around 11:15pm last night in Ballaghaderreen by a local woman who heard an explosion and saw “the sky light up”. No one was injured in the fire and fire services from Mayo and Roscommon were called to the scene where it…