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Modest income tax cuts and marked increases in spending on health and housing. That’s one of the main themes to emerge from Budget 2018 delivered yesterday afternoon by Finance Minister Paschal Donohue. In the north west, the reaction was mixed. Meanwhile, word is awaited on a much-expected specific allocation under…

There are high hopes this morning that the money for the new N4 route between Collooney and Castlebaldwin will at last be included in today’s budget. If the N4 funding is announced, it will be a major milestone in a long campaign for the upgrade of a dangerous stretch of…

Sligo County Council says its staff has now treated an oil spill on the R292 road from Ballydrehid Bridge, just off the N4 exit for Ballisodare, going through Kilmacowen toward Culleenamore, Strandhill. Gardai in Sligo had issued a warning to motorists to drive carefully on the road. There had also…

Traffic is down to one lane on part of the N4 for motorists travelling from Sligo toward Collooney. It’s because of a car that’s on fire on the Collooney side of the Ballisodare exit on the east-bound lane. The Fire Brigade is currently at the scene.

It’s likely to to be the first quarter of 2019 before construction will start on the new N4 route to be built between Collooney and Castlebaldwin. That’s despite the signing of a contract for engineering consultancy services for the project that was signed this week. The company involved in the…

What’s been described as ‘another significant milestone’ has taken place in the development of the N4 Collooney to Castlebaldwin road project. It’s the signing of a contract with the company Halcrow Barry Limited to provide engineeering consultancy services for the scheme. Halcrow Barry’s first task now is to produce contract…

The absence of funding is now the only thing that will prevent the start of work on the new N4 road from Collooney to Castlebaldwin. The scheme, estimated to cost in the region of €100m, is listed as a ‘key investment priority’ in the government’s published Capital Investment Programme 2016-2022.…