Former TD and Leitrim football manager John O’Mahony passes away
Tributes are being paid to the former TD and Leitrim Connacht championship winning manager John O’Mahony who has passed away at age of 71. He was first elected to the Dáil from the Mayo constituency in 2007 and served as a Fine Gael TD until 2016. While he…
Tommie Gorman’s “lifeblood was connection”, funeral hears
Hundreds gathered at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Ransboro on Saturday afternoon for the funeral mass of former RTÉ journalist Tommie Gorman. Mr Gorman, of Lisheen, Strandhill and formerly of Cairns Road passed away at Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin on Tuesday at the age of…
Funeral mass of Tommie Gorman takes place
Tommie Gorman has been remembered for his kindness and inquisitiveness at his funeral mass this afternoon. Mr Gorman, a native of Sligo, worked for RTÉ for more than forty years passed away on Tuesday at the age of 68. He is survived by his wife Ceara, daughter Moya,…
Over 120 treated for cocaine addiction in north west in 2023
It’s emerged that 124 people from the north west received treatment for cocaine-related addiction issues in 2023. Figures published by the Health Research Board show that there were 17 in Sligo, in Leitrim there were 10, while Donegal recorded 97, representing a 2.4 per cent rise in the north…
Rising material costs impacting local construction industry
Rising material costs continue to impact the construction industry in the north west region. A new survey has found that Dublin is now the fourth most expensive city in Europe to build and among the top 25 most expensive places to build globally. The report, from American firm…
“It’s hard, but it’s all worth it”- candidate’s spouses on life of a councillor
Three spouses of candidates contesting this year’s elections in Sligo joined Niall Delaney for a unique insight into the life of a candidate. Naomi and Freya Taylor (wife and daughter of Paul), Mel Casserly (husband of Marie) and Majella Healy (wife of Thomas) detail their experiences from the other…
Clarke and Taylor re-elected in Ballymote-Tubbercurry
Independent Michael Clarke and Fianna Fáil’s Paul Taylor have both been re-elected to Sligo County Council after the sixth count in the Ballymote-Tubbercurry electoral area. The two candidate’s elections follow the distribution of Jennifer Van Aswegan 830 votes which put them over the quota of 2021. Clarke topped the poll…