Sligo Council results: FF take four of the outstanding five seatsCount concludes shortly after 3am with FF polling stronger than expectedMon May 26 2014 - 12:21
Abbey director warns of ‘paralysis’ over 1916 centenary plansFiach MacConghail suggests a UN general assembly be convened in DublinMon May 19 2014 - 01:00
Roscommon profile: Voters boiling angry over contaminated waterBoundary change puts Roscommon hopefuls in unfamiliar territorySat May 17 2014 - 01:00
Sligo profile: Focus on bread-and-butter issuesConstituency profile: Political observers slow to make predictions after changesThu May 15 2014 - 09:51
Bereft parents call for action over random attacks‘After 29 months and 21 gruelling court appearances, just one person was convicted of his manslaughter’Tue May 13 2014 - 01:01
Tax cuts a priority for Government - TaoiseachCoalition must ‘get a grip’ on issues that concern the public , Pat Rabbitte saysMon May 12 2014 - 17:54
Film-maker raises €100,000 to develop €4.5m 1916 filmThe focus will be on Leitrim man Seán Mac Diarmada, says film maker Kevin McCannMon May 12 2014 - 01:00
Kenny speaks of painful, slow, Famine deathsUnveiled memorial carries names of 1,490 from Stokestown who left on coffin shipsSun May 11 2014 - 19:02
Health and harmony grow the good lifeThe Warners’ Harmony Farm is open to people interested in self-sufficiency, goat-keeping and woodland managementTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
Sligo manager says ‘door open’ to Lissadell estate ownersHayes says council would try to facilitate owners if seeking to host more concertsTue Apr 29 2014 - 00:46
Lissadell owners say council report is a ‘whitewash’Sligo County Council faces a legal bill estimated at €5-7 millionMon Apr 28 2014 - 06:30
Hotelier halts auction of distressed farmCo Leitrim hotel owner cheered after stopping sale of neighbour’s propertyMon Apr 28 2014 - 01:23
Nurse accepts responsibility for taping patient’s mouthBimbo Paden has suffered guilt, remorse and anxiety since incident, court hearsThu Apr 10 2014 - 14:19
Sligo councillors expected to seek Government help with Lissadell costsLocal tourism and business representatives said it was crucial the estate reopened to the publicThu Apr 3 2014 - 01:00
Cancer society fundraiser opens door to night nursesDaffodil Day, which is taking place on Friday, has an ambitious target of €3.45 millionTue Mar 25 2014 - 01:00
NCAD lecturer turns daily commute into creative opportunityIrish Lives: Tony Murphy uses his daily five hours on the road to capture ‘abstract compositions’ by remote-control cameraSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:08
Anglers highlight fears for fish species if fracking goes aheadCavalcade of 50 boats on trailers driven through the centre of the Fermanagh townSun Mar 2 2014 - 19:32
Artists alive to Sligo’s alluring landscape and surfers drawn by the swellsWhile Sligo is awash with creative types, it’s also a hot spot for surfing royaltyMon Feb 24 2014 - 01:00
Man dies after falling while trying to gain access to hotelGardaí are investigating incident which they have described as a ‘tragic, freak accident’Thu Feb 13 2014 - 14:32
‘Gentle ways’ celebrated at Nealon funeral MassPriest recounts many ways the former minister of state had made his markSat Feb 1 2014 - 01:00
Retired priest calls for public inquiry into killing of Fr Niall MolloyMinister told that without inquiry ‘suspicion of cover up and collusion at a high level’ will festerMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Councillors criticise failure to include Lissadell provisions in Sligo budgetLissadell legal costs the ‘elephant in room’ as county council considers 10% cut to budgetTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Roscommon campaigners say living with pylons is even worse than anticipatedGroup criticise ‘confusion’ about cost of controversial 56km Flagford to Srananagh lineTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
Stark reality of everyday racism revealed in Sligo service reportsVictims urged to break silence and speak out on racist incidentsSat Jan 4 2014 - 01:02
Dangers of tanning downplayed, survey revealsResearch in Sligo schools shows general misconception about the harmful effects of the sun, sunbeds and tanningSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:01
Dual carriageway to replace perilous stretch of Sligo roadCampaigners have erected 30 white crosses - each marking the scene of a fatalityFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
Sligo woman died after giving birthInquest to be held into death of mother at Sligo General HospitalWed Dec 18 2013 - 01:00
Writer John McGahern to be commemorated by library at Cootehall barracksMinister hands over key of former Garda station to local communityWed Dec 4 2013 - 01:00
Councillor at centre of Lissadell row says he has clear conscienceCouncil braces itself for a huge legal bill arising out of the court proceedingsTue Dec 3 2013 - 01:00
Impact of Great Famine on mental health examined at Science WeekProf Oonagh Walsh believes research will show connection between high rates of mental illnesses and the effect of maternal starvationWed Nov 13 2013 - 01:00
Former Fianna Fáil senator jailed for attempt to extort €100,000Francie O’Brien breached his community’s trust with blackmail bid, judge saysTue Nov 12 2013 - 23:36
Lissadell owners urged to reopen estate to publicMajority of callers to local radio station yesterday expressed anger with council, saying the people of Sligo would have to foot the billTue Nov 12 2013 - 01:00
John McGahern’s former barracks home to become a museumWriter and his family had lived in Garda station which was closed last yearMon Oct 28 2013 - 23:06
Restoration in Longford: raising St Mel’s cathedral from the ashesThe restoration of Longford cathedral is one of the largest conservation projects in western Europe. On Sunday the public can go along to see how it is progressingThu Sep 26 2013 - 01:00
Patients at ‘risk’ due in understaffed centreRise in ‘unexplained injuries’ at Sligo residential and day centre run by religious orderTue Aug 27 2013 - 01:00
Sligo council casts a cold eye over Ben Bulben access disputeAuthority set to rule on whether public right of way exists on route to mountainMon Aug 26 2013 - 01:00
McGuinness rounds on unionists over Belfast violenceNI Deputy First Minister condemns DUP’s withdrawal of support for Maze CentreSun Aug 18 2013 - 08:42
Irish Lives: Living and working on a bargeMary McInerney sold her house in Galway and moved into a 15-tonne boat, ‘ Frøya’Sat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
Quinn says family are ‘victims’ of bad Government policyBankrupt businessman fights tears at opening of Balinamore festivalSun Aug 11 2013 - 19:35
Yeats’s affinity with new media recalledPoet’s 1930s embrace of radio discussed at Sligo summer schoolWed Aug 7 2013 - 01:00
Heaney lights up Yeats summer schoolNobel laureate’s reading marks halfway point of festivalTue Aug 6 2013 - 01:00
Naughten says emigrating families have lost hopeFormer Government TD described as ‘a representative of principle’Mon Aug 5 2013 - 01:00
Tread Softly festival steps up celebrationsEvent focuses on ‘taking Yeats beyond academia and out onto the streets’Mon Jul 29 2013 - 01:02
Arigna project tracks history of every household in the former mining valleyRoscommon ancestor of mayor of Sydney was sent to Australia in leg ironsSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:37
More poets needed in political life, according to the Abbot of Glenstal AbbeyMark Patrick Hederman told the Percy French Summer School a new Seanad should be constituted and should include artists.Sat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
John McGahern’s quest for perfection and insight into Ireland highlightedAnnual McGahern seminar told of 23 drafts of one short story in NUI Galway archiveMon May 27 2013 - 01:00