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Ireland’s care system isn’t working under current Government conditions. That’s the view of Sligo Leitrim Labour Party representative, Nessa Cosgrove, as her party have called for the recruitment freeze for home help carers to be lifted. Currently, there are 83 people in Sligo and Leitrim on a waiting list to…

Calls are being made for more transparency regarding the number of vacant council houses in the North West. It emerged earlier this week that there were 216 empty council homes in the north west at the end of the first six months of this year. Sligo had 25, Leitrim had…

A local representative for the Labour Party says they will be backing a Sinn Fein motion to retain the eviction ban. Party Leader Ivana Bacik has called on the Government to reverse its decision not to extend it beyond the end of this month. It comes after Green Party TD…

A former local and general election candidate has called on government to provide greater powers to Sligo County Council to clamp down on Airbnb. An analysis carried out by Labour housing spokesperson Rebecca Moynihan found that 55 Airbnb houses were available to let in Sligo, with only 13 homes available…

A former local and general election candidate says those working in the community and voluntary sector have been left 14 years without a pay increase and also continue to be presented with poor short term contracts.   Healthcare workers in the community sector protested yesterday in Dublin for better pay…