Council wants help in finding out who owns overgrown hedges
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…
Donegal continues to have one of the highest numbers of people killed on roads
Donegal has the fourth highest number of deaths on the roads after Dublin, Meath and Mayo. The Road Safety Authority has issued new figures today showing six of the 77 road fatalities so far this year have been in the North West counties. Five people have already lost their lives…
Population crisis: Do up delapidated buildings, says Leitrim councillor
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…
Manorhamilton the hub for Five Glens Wild Atlantic Loop
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.…
No increase in Special Needs Assistants in Leitrim
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,…
House prices in the North West could increase by up to 10% in the next twelve months
House prices in the North West could increase by between eight to ten percent in the next twelve months. That’s the belief of economist Ronan Lyons, the author of today’s daft.ie report. The report states that Donegal is now the most expensive county in the region in which to buy…
There are 1,574 young people unemployed for 6 months or more in the North West
There are 1,574 young people in the North West who are unemployed for 6 months or more. In Leitrim, the figure stands at 146 people, 247 in Sligo while there are 1,181 people in Donegal. The figures come from a question posed by Dublin North-East TD Thomas P. Broughan in…