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Patience wears thin over latest boil water delay
Businesses around South Sligo are fed up with the Boil Water Notice for drinking water from Lough Talt remaining in place for peak tourist season.
Call in the tankers: businesses call on Irish Water to start providing water supplies
Is it time Irish Water or Sligo County Council started delivering water to communities in need of fresh drinking water?
Disappointment at lack of water deliveries to unit
Ballymote Community Nursing unit manager Linda Hannon is by now enured to the inconvenience of the boil water notice.
Tourism is hit by uncertainty
The boil water notice is not only affecting homes and hotels - local tourism operators are also suffering.
Response from HSE
The HSE has said they cannot say that the local cases of cryptosporidiosis were not connected to Lough Talt.
Cllr Baker takes top job unopposed
"You don't count Martin Baker's votes. You weigh them." Such was the accolade from Councillor Chris MacManus to the new first citizen of Sligo, Fianna Fáil Councillor Martin Baker from Riverstown.
Outgoing Mayor Keaney says new jobs on horizon
Outgoing Mayor of Sligo Municipal District Fine Gael Councillor Hubert Keaney officially handed over the chain of office to his successor Fianna Fáil Councillor Rosaleen O'Grady at Monday's AGM in City Hall.
Cartron repairs remain in the pipeline
David Goulden - Sligo County Council meeting Road surface conditions in the Cartron Estate in Sligo Town will be assessed in the coming months, but a full survey of the area's footpaths will not take place until a purpose built application is launched.
Library changes on way to encourage more service users
Changes being made to the library services nationally aim to encourage more people to use their local libraries.
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Nine held as heroin, cocaine and cannabis seized in drug raids
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Temporary Brexit customs backstop to solve Irish border issue ‘not acceptable’
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Gardai seek taxi drivers with information about Co Cork murder
- Micheal Martin accuses Mary-Lou McDonald of sense of entitlement to power
- Suspected hit-and-run victim found on Co Cork roadside
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