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Leitrim County Council wants help in finding out the names of landowners who should cut overgrown hedges along roads in the county. Every year around this time, the issue of overgrown roadside hedges arises — but in some cases, the problem is in establishing who actually owns the hedges. The…

A North Leitrim councillor says many towns and villages in the county could be ‘transformed’ if unused or delapidated buildings within them were renovated and made available for people to live in. Fine Gael Councillor Sean McDermott told yesterday’s Manorhamilton Municipal District meeting of Leitrim County Council that this had…

A new effort is being launched to attract more tourists to the northern areas of counties Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan and Fermanagh. It’s called the Five Glens Wild Atlantic Loop and focuses on about a dozen surrounding attractions, all within about a half hour’s drive of the central hub of Manorhamilton.…

Leitrim is the only county in the region not to see an increase in the number of special needs assistants allocated to schools. The allocation of 975 additional posts to schools from September to December was announced by Minister for Education Richard Bruton, yesterday. Donegal will get 44 extra SNAs,…