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The news that a recent EPA report has described the bathing water quality at three out of Sligo’s five beaches as excellent will prove to be a significant boost to the local tourism sector post the Covid-19 pandemic.   That’s according to a local Sligo Councillor.     The three…

Farmers in the North West are being warned of a rise in Council inspections on farms. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has urged all local authorities to increase the number of farm inspections they carry out every year due to fall of 673 inspections last year figure. The local authority…

Sligo County Council says staffing and resource issues have led to reduced enforcement of environmental standards The Council has been criticised in a new EPA report for failing in a number of areas of environmental enforcement between 2014 and last year. These include in air quality, waste and wastewater treatment…

The Environmental Protection Agency says grants are in place for people in Leitrim hoping to build higher spec septic tanks. It comes as a new report reveals that two thirds of spetic tanks inspected in the county last year failed the test. Claire Mulcahy reports: