Primary care centres in Grange and Drumcliffe include in HSE capital plan
The health minister has given an update on the progress of a number proposed primary care centres in Sligo. The centres provide a range of health services at local level, one of the best examples being the centre in Ballymote, in South Sligo, which Minister Simon Harris officially opened last…
Arise and go? Not to a public toilet in Drumcliffe!
Sligo county councillors have been told that providing public toilet facilities at Drumcliffe is ‘a difficult issue’ and will be ‘considerably expensive.’ The lack of such toilets in an area that is a major tourist attraction for people for around the world was raised at yesterday’s meeting of the county…
Dates set for north Sligo Fine Gael selection conventions
Fine Gael has provisionally set dates for the holding of conventions to select its local election candidates in the north Sligo area for next year’s elections. The Sligo/Strandhill convention is to take place on January 21st with the Sligo/Drumcliff convention due for February 4th. However, these dates have yet to…
Drumcliffe sculpture may have been stolen earlier than first thought
The Drumcliffe Development Association says there has been an overwhelming repose to the appeal for information regarding a statue that was stolen from the church a car park. The statue forms part of a larger sculpture which displays the WB Yeats poem, He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven. It…
Rector of Drumcliffe saddened by theft of bronze statue
The rector of Drumcliffe says he is is saddened and annoyed about the theft of a large bronze sculpture from the church car park over the weekend. Gardai are now investigating the incident and are appealing to anyone who may have information to come forward. Therese Madden Reports: The…
Call for HSE to provide funding for Drumcliffe medical centre
A Sligo councillor is calling on the HSE to fulfil its promise up upgrade a north Sligo medical centre. Fine Gael general election candidate Sinead Maguire says the current centre in Drumcliffe is not really fit for purpose.
Sligo leading the way with bike-share scheme
The future of a much-praised, high-tech bike-share scheme in Sligo now depends on sponsorship from private business or funding from the county council. Sligo is the first town of its size in Europe to have such a scheme, which has been operating successfully on a pilot basis for the past…