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This Friday is the deadline for receipt of applications for the school transport scheme. It provides transport to pupils who live 3.2 kilometres from primary school and 4.8 kilometres from post-priamry school. Sligo Sinn Fein Councillor Thomas Healy says a recurring problem with the scheme is that pupils who are…

A Sligo councillor is calling on the new owners of a large, multistorey unfinished apartment block in Ballisodare, Co Sligo, to say what their plans are for the building. The Avena Mills apartment complex, located on the bank of the Owenmore River, has been the subject of complaints about antisocial…

A local councillor is calling on Irish Water to carry out a survey of pipes serving a large area of Sligo Town that has recently had repeated interruptions to its service. Sinn Fein Councillor Thomas Healy says that during the past two years there have been repeated bursts along the…

A Sligo county councillor says library services remain under threat unless money is provided to replace staff who will be retiring this year. Sinn Fein Councillor Thomas Healy says that under the Public Libraries Act 1947, Local Government Minister Simon Coveney has the power to provide money for the library…

A Sinn Fein councillor in Sligo has called on the county council to find a solution for ongoing flooding on a stretch of the R287 between Slishwood and Correagh villages. Councillor Thomas Healy told this week’s meeting of Sligo County Council that locals on the road known as ‘the long…

Minor works to prevent drastic flooding on roads in Sligo this winter are continuing. The R284 Ballygawley to Carraroe road will be closed from Tuesday until Thursday of next week. The Council is working to raise the road near the lake outside Ballygawley at the junction with Union Wood. Last…