Farmers required to make applications online despite insufficient broadband
Farmers are required to make all applications for their payments online even though the North West’s Broadband infrastructure is lacking. That’s according to Sinn Fein Agricultural Spokersperson, TD Martin Kenny who is putting forward his Rural Equality Bill this week to the Dail. According to Deputy Kenny, the bill ‘aims…
HSE responds to TD’s comments on hospital unit
The HSE has responded to a statement from a Sligo/Leitrim Dail Deputy in which he described conditions at a unit in St John’s Hospital in Sligo last November as ‘shameful.’ Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny was commenting after the Mental Health Commission published the final Inspection Report for the Rehabilitation…
Sligo/Leitrim TD tells Dail of constituent’s horror in mother and baby home
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says we must create a new society in which horrors such as what happened in the mother and baby homes can never happen again. During an emotional Dail debate on the mother and baby homes scandal yesterday, Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny told of the experience of…
Concerns that local MABS services may be regionalised
A Sligo/Leitrim TD has voiced concern over plans to change the structure of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, otherwise known as MABS. The service is currently operated by individual boards across the country. However, it is now proposed that these boards be regionalised into eight structures, with managers in…
TD Martin Kenny hits out at government’s new rural reinvigoration plan
The government is refuting claims that it is not doing enough to protect rural services after coming under fire this week in the Dail over ongoing threats to post offices in the North West. Sligo/Leitrim TD Martin Kenny hit out at the government’s new rural reinvigoration plan launched this week…
Prospect of Sinn Fein a senior coalition partner ‘scary’?
A Fine Gael and a Sinn Fein politician in the North West differ on the prospect of Sinn Fein in coalition government in the coming years. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is in the headlines today for failing to rule out such a union but many members of his party have spoken out…
Kenny: Another PO under threat
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says the future of another post office in the North West has come under threat this week. Sinn Fein’s Martin Kenny says that An Post are undecided about renewing the contract at Aughavas Post Office in county Leitrim after the business was sold. It comes as the…