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There’s mixed news for Mental Health Services in the North West this week. The HSE has admitted there’s ongoing difficulty recruiting a child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist for the Sligo/Leitrim area. Meanwhile, work on a new mental health unit at Sligo University Hospital is to start this summer.   The…

A Sligo/Leitrim Dail deputy is proposing to the Constituencies Commission that the counties of Donegal and Cavan be reunited for the purposes of general elections. Fianna Fail TD Marc MacSharry is proposing that Sligo/Leitrim should be one constitiency with four seats; that Cavan/Monaghan be one constituency with five seats; and…

A Donegal Dail deputy says he will be insisting when the next group of garda recruits graduate from Templemore that some of them are assigned to Donegal. Fianna Fail deputy Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher was speaking after discovering that of the 145 new gardai who graduated last month, none of…