Illustrator draws on Yeats’s love life for her new bookAnnie West’s book ‘Yeats in Love’ has irreverent drawings of the poet’s four proposalsSat Nov 22 2014 - 01:01
Taoiseach’s car attacked after scuffles erupt in SligoProtest leaders had urged crowd to ensure picket remained peacefulTue Nov 18 2014 - 09:03
Man who fired at gardaí during Sligo siege ‘went daft’Michael O’Connor reloaded a shotgun on 23 times during Sligo siegeThu Nov 13 2014 - 15:13
Ireland’s oldest man Luke Dolan dies at 108Tributes paid to Roscommon man who credited long life to boiled eggs and sugary teaMon Nov 10 2014 - 20:08
Roscommon stonecutter owes a lot to pope’s decree . . . and noseBarry Feely reflects on his family’s 230 years of making headstonesSat Nov 8 2014 - 16:07
Sligo water protesters say minor concessions won’t fool peopleCrowd of 4,000 directs anger at Taoiseach in demonstration against new chargesSat Nov 1 2014 - 18:09
Could you be Ireland’s latest millionaire?Most common refrain in Leitrim today was “it wasn’t me” as speculation mounts who the winner might beSun Oct 26 2014 - 20:43
Chris O’Dowd: ‘I was not aware Roscommon had enslaved me’Moone Boy creator accepts freedom of Roscommon before crowd in BoyleWed Oct 22 2014 - 21:01
Martin says he will lead FF into next general electionCommenting on the outcome, Luke Ming Flanagan said a seed had been plantedMon Oct 13 2014 - 00:33
Independent candidates record byelection surprisesAnti-Austerity Alliance tops SF in Dublin SW; Independent beats FF in Roscommon-South LeitrimSat Oct 11 2014 - 22:00
Michael Fitzmaurice wins Roscommon South-Leitrim byelectionIndependent candidate defeats Fianna Fáil’s Ivan Connaughton on seventh countSat Oct 11 2014 - 21:54
Jobs and water charges dominate campaigningTaoiseach Enda Kenny took to campaign trail in Roscommon-South LeitrimTue Oct 7 2014 - 10:49
Rowlette inquest: ‘It’s hard when you have to wait for answers'Hearing into Sligo hospital death to be held in DecemberWed Oct 1 2014 - 09:33
Michael Kivlehan: ‘I don’t feel angry – it has gone past anger. I have got answers’Dhara Kivlehan’s husband to set up foundation for bereaved parents who lose a partnerWed Oct 1 2014 - 08:56
Jury finds Kivlehan death due to medical misadventureJury reach unanimous verdict and call for national database of critical-care bedsTue Sep 30 2014 - 01:00
Dr Peter Boylan tells Kivlehan inquest of deficiencies in careExpert witness gives evidence on final day of hearing into woman’s deathMon Sep 29 2014 - 17:30
Consultant ‘did not mean to offend’ Dhara Kivlehan's husbandNurse denies telling Michael Kivlehan to ‘stop eavesdropping’ on doctorsSat Sep 27 2014 - 01:00
Nurse denies telling Michael Kivlehan to stop ‘eavesdropping’Inquests hears of angry exchanges between staff and husband of seriously-ill womanFri Sep 26 2014 - 14:33
Kivlehan not seen by specialist for 60 hours after diagnosisDelay after diagnosis ‘not appropriate’ but did not affect overall care, inquest toldFri Sep 26 2014 - 01:00
No ICU bed could be found for seriously ill woman, inquest hearsWoman died in Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast of multi-organ failure a week after her first baby was born in Sligo Regional HospitalThu Sep 25 2014 - 01:00
Woman had renal failure six days before death, inquest hearsDhara Kivlehan died in Belfast a week after giving birth at Sligo Regional HospitalWed Sep 24 2014 - 14:03
Mortality rate due to Hellp syndrome less than 1% in west, court toldPathologist said it was the only case he had come acrossTue Sep 23 2014 - 01:00
Wife was ‘unrecognisable’ hours after baby was bornHusband of Dhara Kivlehan says consultant told him she would be ‘fine’Tue Sep 23 2014 - 01:00
Wife was ‘unrecognisable’ after giving birth, husband tells inquestDhara Kivlehan died in a Belfast hospital after being airlifted from Sligo Regional HospitalMon Sep 22 2014 - 15:05
‘It is ridiculous the water is contaminated and it is ridiculous if we have to pay for it’‘If we were not about to have a byelection there would be damn all talk in the Dáil about our water problems’Fri Sep 19 2014 - 01:00
Sligo’s historic Markree Castle up for saleFamous guests at Francis Johnston-designed castle include Johnny Cash and Tom WatsonThu Sep 18 2014 - 11:11
Council votes against fracking despite warning Minister may overturn clauseLeitrim and Cavan councillors to meet Alex White on hydraulic fracturing for gasTue Sep 16 2014 - 01:02
Naturists get a bum deal in Ireland, delegates toldTwenty five countries represented at International Naturist Congress in LeitrimThu Sep 11 2014 - 20:47
Prehistoric pit discovered on Coney Island beachA box-like structure built from large stone slabs may have been used for bathing or cooking during the Bronze AgeThu Sep 11 2014 - 01:00
State has history of turning blind eye, Joan Burton tells Humbert SchoolIreland refused to see or hear when it came to hiding women, children in institutions, Tanaiste saysFri Sep 5 2014 - 01:00
Situation ‘fragile’ despite strong economic data, says KennyGovernment not in position to ‘write large cheques’Tue Sep 2 2014 - 16:26
New €17m science building at IT Sligo named in honour of forgotten scientistEaskey man gave up his research for the Boer War after his findings were rubbishedMon Sep 1 2014 - 01:02
DeLorean back to the present as owners meetAn estimated 60-100 DeLorean cars from early 1980s survive in IrelandMon Sep 1 2014 - 01:00
120 water meters destroyed in ‘suspicious’ Sligo fireGardaí investigating cause of blaze which broke out in shed causing €20,000 damageMon Aug 25 2014 - 18:59
Carrick-on-Shannon mourns loss of MBNA call centreFrustration and disappointment for local businesses as 160 jobs goSat Aug 16 2014 - 01:00
Music fills Sligo’s streets for Fleadh CheoilSome 10,000 competitors to attend the week-long eventMon Aug 11 2014 - 01:00
Transplant and dialysis team eye golden chanceMore than 30 athletes are set to travel to the transplant and dialysis championships in Krakow, PolandFri Aug 8 2014 - 01:00
Leitrim County Council calls for end to drilling work by mining firm TamboranCouncillors vote unanimously to seek the intervention of Taoiseach and British prime minister David CameronFri Aug 1 2014 - 01:00
Grandfather’s gateposts saved from Rockingham open doors to artArtist Sean Rafferty has made an installation from the gateposts in Lough Key Forest ParkThu Jul 31 2014 - 01:00
Skeffington brothers were ‘great friends’, mourners toldPriest says boy with ‘bright sparkling blue eyes and big smile’ made big impression in schoolFri Jul 25 2014 - 16:00
Parents discover mortally wounded son (9) inside homeShane Skeffington believed to have stabbed brother before taking his own lifeTue Jul 22 2014 - 08:08
Hidden pregnancy hasn’t gone away, it just has another faceWhile Ireland may no longer be such a harsh place for unmarried pregnant women, the stigma persistsTue Jul 22 2014 - 01:00
Postmortems under way on brothers who died in Sligo incidentShock in rural community after child (9) found with stab wounds in TubbercurryMon Jul 21 2014 - 18:17
Widower says inquest into wife’s death ‘a cover-up’Solicitor tells Coroner family ‘stunned’ at what they saw as restrictive approachWed Jul 16 2014 - 14:11
Bishop asks parishioners to find men for priesthoodDr Kevin Doran ordained by his predecessor Bishop Christopher Jones in SligoMon Jul 14 2014 - 01:14
Dermot Healy laid to rest in Sligo amid music, dance and poetryWriter laid to rest yesterday in the company of poets and artists, musicians and singers, a president and, above all, his neighboursFri Jul 4 2014 - 01:01
Inquest into death of Indian woman after childbirth beginsDhara Kivlehan (29) died in Belfast four days after son was born in Sligo Regional Hospital in 2010Tue Jul 1 2014 - 01:00
Romance endures in Leitrim ballroomHall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attractionSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
1916 relative says families should consider boycotting 2016 commemorationAnger among relatives of those involved in the Rising as they received no assurances they would be invited to the 2016 ceremonyMon Jun 16 2014 - 01:00