Call for border counties be given special support for Brexit
All the counties along the border are to be asked to support a motion from Sligo County Council calling that they be given additional resources to deal with the affects of Brexit. Fianna Fail Councillor Seamus Kilgannon made the proposal at yesterday’s meeting of the council. A similar motion was…
Calls for west of Ireland passport office to be located in Tubbercurry
A South Sligo councillor wants to see a new passport office for the west of Ireland — and he wants it in Tubbercurry. Fianna Fail Councillor Jerry Lundy raised the motion at a meeting of the Tubbercurry/Ballymote municipal district yesterday. Councillor Lundy says up to a million people could benefit…
Sligo County Council has made no decision yet about invitation to new U.S. vicepresident
Sligo County Council says no decision has been taken about whether or not to invite the vicepresident-elect of the United States, Mike Pence, to Sligo. Pence’s grandfather, Richard Michael Cawley, left Doocastle, near Tubbercurry, in South Sligo, in the early 1920s, eventually becoming a bus driver in Chicago. There have…