Hopes US Vice President, Mike Pence, will visit ancestral home in South Sligo
Sligo County Council is to reissue a previous invitation to US vice president Mike Pence to visit the county. It comes amid reports that dates for a trip to Ireland by Mr Pence in early September are being looked at by Irish and US officials. If the visit does go…
Sligo Civil Defence to receive new jeep
Sligo Civil Defence are to receive a new jeep for their fleet. 16 Ford Rangers will be joining different units across the country with Co. Sligo being one of them. It’s part of an allocation of €500,000 from the dormant accounts fund by the Department of Community and Rural Development…
500 hospital support staff across to go on strike this morning
Over 500 hospital support staff across the north west region are due to go on strike this morning. 10 thousand support staff in 38 hospitals and healthcare facilities including Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital are walking off the job at 8am for 24 hours. The Saolta Group says…
Some credit unions forced to put caps on amount that can be held in deposits
A Sligo-based former director of the Irish League of Credit Unions says costs being imposed by banks is forcing some credit unions to put caps on the amounts that can be held in deposits. According to research by The Irish Times, at least 36 credit unions across the State have…
North West counties included in new online pilot programme for solicitors
Counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and Louth are included in a new online pilot programme for solicitors making applications to the courts for a variety of licences. Under the scheme, solicitors can lodge, pay and track licensing applictions online. The Courts Service plans to roll out the online e-licensing system next…
Yeats Day being celebrated in Sligo today
Yeats Day is being celebrated in Sligo today, it being the 154th birthday of the Nobel Prize winning poet. It also marks 60 years of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo — the longest-running academic summer school in the world — that opens this year on July 25th. Susan…
Talks to avert strike action by hospital staff to take place today
Talks are due to take place today in a bid to avert strike action by hospital support staff which will impact on services across the north west. Over 500 health workers, including porters, chefs, cleaners and health care assistants, are planning to take industrial action next Thursday, the 20th of…