Roscommon refugee centre manager hopes for ‘happy place’Jacqueline Mullen overwhelmed with offers of help from locals in BallaghaderreenWed Jan 25 2017 - 01:00
Funding withdrawn for youth services in BallaghaderreenTD says move by department leaves vacuum for 500 young people who use serviceTue Jan 17 2017 - 01:00
Leading works of art popping up in Sligo schoolsModel arts centre outreach scheme takes paintings out of gallery to inspire childrenMon Jan 16 2017 - 01:00
Syrian refugees for Roscommon to include 13 young childrenFianna Fáil TD calls for child psychologist appointment ahead of arrival of 37 childrenFri Jan 13 2017 - 01:00
Ballaghaderreen locals feel compassion for refugees but unease'I think Irish people are sympathetic because after the Famine, where would we have been?'Sat Jan 7 2017 - 01:00
Housing 80 Syrians in Ballaghaderreen ‘not a bad news story’Council chief: ‘This is a good news story for desperate people who are in desperate need’Fri Jan 6 2017 - 14:42
Roscommon community urges State to act over flood barrierWork on demountable barrier at Castleplunkett turlough stalled over access rowTue Jan 3 2017 - 17:52
Homeless in Sligo: couch surfing hides true extent of crisisOver 1,000 on housing list while numbers contacting Focus Ireland up 50 per centMon Jan 2 2017 - 01:00
Bord Pleanála refuses permission for Lidl store in LeitrimBoard overrules council in blocking Carrick-on-Shannon developmentThu Dec 29 2016 - 18:43
Mother’s plea for HSE to fund diabetes testing deviceFreestyle Libre can monitor glucose levels in blood through skin instead of finger pricksWed Dec 28 2016 - 01:00
Shannon community responds to plans to dredge the river‘Not before time’ say locals as OPW pledges to undertake strategic maintenance worksMon Dec 12 2016 - 01:00
Carrick-on-Shannon residents unhappy with new flood planOPW proposals to build flood defence wall have met scorn, anger and derision from localsMon Dec 5 2016 - 13:55
Mother appeals for killer of ‘innocent boy’ to give himself upSam Smith was shot aged 23 in 2005 at the door of his sister’s house in SligoWed Nov 23 2016 - 17:27
An Post accused of ‘callous’ plan to close Sligo post officePriest speaks out as company reviews contract after death of Ballygawley postmasterSun Nov 20 2016 - 15:23
Plastic on the menu as marine pollution spreadsTonnes of plastic waste being dumped into the oceans affecting bird and marine speciesThu Nov 17 2016 - 06:00
Man ends 36-day hunger strike after asylum process access assuredMinister lifted deportation threat on Monday but Iranian (44) waited for confirmationTue Nov 15 2016 - 20:22
Direct provision hunger striker has deportation threat liftedKurd refused food for 35 days as he would ‘rather die of starvation than go back to Iran’Tue Nov 15 2016 - 01:00
Asylum seeker on hunger strike for 34 daysFianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry appeals to Minister to review case as matter of urgencyMon Nov 14 2016 - 01:00
Man who drove car while garda held on to window jailedJudge says Garda John Walsh lucky not to have been killed in Co Sligo incidentFri Oct 28 2016 - 13:33
Misadventure verdict on teenager’s death after taking ecstasyToxicology results show evidence of drug and alcohol consumption mix in Leitrim fatalityWed Oct 26 2016 - 20:28
Anglers stage lake protest in support of anti-fracking BillBianca Jagger and Glen Hansard among those backing the Love Leitrim campaignSun Oct 23 2016 - 14:11
Garda ‘feared for his life’ after being dragged by suspect’s carMan pleads guilty to endangering Sligo officer who tried to search him for drugsTue Oct 18 2016 - 16:37
Enda Kenny: Castlebar blows hot and cold on plan to run againLocals evenly split between supporters and those saying someone else should get chanceTue Oct 11 2016 - 19:09
‘Brokeback Mountain’ author Annie Proulx at Iron MountainWriter praises Dermot Healy at literature festival but has a pop at John SteinbeckMon Oct 10 2016 - 01:00
Walkout by gardaí at Sligo station deferredEngineers’ report highlighted antiquated heating system and ‘third-world’ toilet facilities in stationFri Oct 7 2016 - 01:00
Recruitment of staff sanctioned to keep Sligo libraries openFour full-time library staff plus two librarians to get six-month contractsTue Oct 4 2016 - 01:00
Councillors move to stop closure of three Sligo librariesSection 140 motion to force council chief executive to keep branch libraries openSun Oct 2 2016 - 21:52
Man shot dead in front of girlfriend and baby, inquest toldHughie McGinley (26) died after gunman put small weapon to left temple and shot him onceThu Sep 29 2016 - 20:50
Strokestown launches bid to become heritage attractionLocal community plans partnership with Strokestown House to transform townThu Sep 15 2016 - 21:17
Sligo libraries face closure due to council staff cutsCounty associated with WB Yeats may lose two of its three libraries if staff cuts go aheadThu Sep 15 2016 - 06:00
Cattle breeder convicted on sale of animal linked to banned drugStanley Richardson convicted of selling bull which had been given phenylbutazoneWed Sep 14 2016 - 01:00
Gardaí to investigate alleged attack on detective at GAA matchViolence erupts after supporters say referee played eight minutes of extra timeThu Sep 8 2016 - 01:00
Frank Feighan ‘vindicated’ as new €5.5m unit opens at Roscommon hospital‘I do not think enough people were willing to stand up and be counted,’ says former TDWed Sep 7 2016 - 14:07
Higgins apologises for treatment of deported IrishmanJimmy Gralton denounced as a communist by Fianna Fáil government in 1933Sat Sep 3 2016 - 14:21
Some 4,000 Irish girls sent to Australia under orphan schemeDescendants of orphans transported to Australia want memorial in Carrick-on-ShannonWed Aug 10 2016 - 01:00
Judge calls for compensation scheme for crime victimsComments made after case of ‘vicious’ assault which left victim afraid to come to courtSat Jul 30 2016 - 01:00
Social welfare official found not guilty in Sligo oral sex caseJudge says he was satisfied the prosecution case did not establish the offence of coercionTue Jul 26 2016 - 19:58
Welfare official ‘totally’ rejects claim he asked for oral sexWoman who made allegation denies in Sligo court that the case was ‘all about money’Fri Jul 22 2016 - 15:51
Official asked woman worried about benefit fraud ‘for oral sex’, court hearsSligo Department of Social Protection worker Andrew Gilmartin denies chargeThu Jul 21 2016 - 18:02
Minister urged to take heat out of forestry issue in LeitrimLeitrim IFA chair says county does not want to be a ‘carbon sink for aristocrats of Europe’Tue Jul 12 2016 - 22:10
Move into forestry casting a shadow across LeitrimThe planting of trees is causing tension in the area and turning farmer against farmerMon Jul 4 2016 - 01:00
Garda faces further charges of disclosing informationJimell Henry (34) is accused of revealing personal data obtained during her dutiesThu Jun 2 2016 - 17:35
Man died after catheter procedure led to bowel perforationCoroner returns verdict of medical misadventure in case with ‘three months of torture’Tue May 31 2016 - 01:00
Seán Mac Diarmada’s execution commemorated by locals in candlelit vigilMac Diarmada’s grandniece among those who gathered in Kiltyclogher, Co LeitrimThu May 12 2016 - 09:42
Holidays on a luxury barge? In Leitrim? Whatever floats your boatelA couple keen to make a living on the river have launched tailor-made stays on board ‘Lovely Leitrim’Sat Apr 30 2016 - 05:45
Permission granted for distillery at Sligo’s Hazelwood HouseProduction of single malt whiskey to start in the Lough Gill distillery within 12-18 monthsWed Apr 27 2016 - 01:00
Mediating a way to avoid court fees and delaysMediation is about dealing with the nitty grittyTue Apr 26 2016 - 01:00
Friends in media, politics gather for James Downey funeralJournalist decided ‘he could wait no longer for government to be formed’, mourners toldSat Apr 23 2016 - 18:12
Roscommon community to mark violent decadeTeenage boy shot by Black and Tans among those to be commemorated in ArdcarneWed Mar 30 2016 - 01:00
Bear bone opens new chapter in Ireland’s archaeologyFind pushes back earliest evidence of human habitation of island by 2,500 yearsMon Mar 21 2016 - 15:07