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A Donegal TD’s bill means complaints about financial products that are more than six years old can now be dealt with by the Financial Services Ombudsman. The Bill, from Sinn Fein Deputy Pearse Doherty, passed the final stage in the Dail yesterday evening. Up to now, the Ombudsman could not…

Sligo County Council is seeing a dramatic turnaround in its financial situation. Chief Executive Ciaran Hayes told a meeting of council this morning that a €23m deficit built up in the seven-year period to 2014 had now been turned around into a €2.8m surplus. The change in the financial situation…

St. Vincent de Paul says the demand for their service is up 10% on last year. Rosa Glacken is Vice-President of St. Vincent de Paul in the north west. She has been speaking to Ocean FM following concerns raised by Fianna Fail Councillor in Sligo Seamus Kilgannon this week on…

Sligo County Council is facing a bill of more than a quarter million euro from Revenue. It arises because the council did not believe it was responsible for VAT arising from arrangements with contractors to carry out work on unfinished housing developments under a special government scheme. The actual VAT…