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Vera Dwyer.

News

Sligo lung transplant recipient Vera Dwyer passes away 33 years after life-saving operation

The world’s longest surviving single lung transplant recipient, Ms Vera Dwyer died on Saturday last, 33 years after receiving the life-saving organ.

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News

Mona McSharry is pride of Sligo and Ireland after eighth-place finish in Olympic swimming final

John Ring

News

Judge lifts order on naming of accused after challenge

Focus Ireland Launch: Monica McElhinney Fundraising and Marketing, Charity Founder Sr Stan and Mayor of Sligo Arthur Gibbbons. Pat Dennigan, CEO of Focus Ireland, Mary Jameson Project Leader

News

New Focus Ireland office opens in Sligo

Ghris Gonley, Clr. Paul Taylor, Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council and Susan O'Keeffe, Director, Yeats Society at the Launch of Yeats Unwrapped at the Yeats Building Hyde Bridge last Friday.

News

Yeats Society Sligo launches new mobile app

Rosses Point main beach.

News

Sligo County Council inviting public to complete Strandhill and Rosses Point surveys

John Lynch leaving Loughan House open prison in Cavan

News

Arsonist child killer John Lynch is released after nine years

IT Sligo President, Dr Brendan McCormack.

News

IT Sligo sees increase in CAO applicants

Some of the Sligo Surf Lifesaving juniors taking part in summer training at Rosses Point beach recently.

Other Sports

Surf lifesavers learning skills

Mary O’Hehir & Roddy Quinn centre stage with new projector.

Entertainment

First look at Hawk's Well Theatre Sligo renovation works

Ballymote’s Brian Colsh (back far left) with his Irish teammates. Colsh was part of the Irish U23 team and won an extremely competitive race where the European silver medallist went on to beat Russia in the single scull event.

Other Sports

Ballymote’s Brian Colsh (18) impresses with win at U23 Euros

News

Rosses Point main beach.

Sligo County Council inviting public to complete Strandhill and Rosses Point surveys

Ghris Gonley, Clr. Paul Taylor, Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council and Susan O'Keeffe, Director, Yeats Society at the Launch of Yeats Unwrapped at the Yeats Building Hyde Bridge last Friday.

Yeats Society Sligo launches new mobile app

Mona McSharry is pride of Sligo and Ireland after eighth-place finish in Olympic swimming final

Focus Ireland Launch: Monica McElhinney Fundraising and Marketing, Charity Founder Sr Stan and Mayor of Sligo Arthur Gibbbons. Pat Dennigan, CEO of Focus Ireland, Mary Jameson Project Leader

New Focus Ireland office opens in Sligo

Vera Dwyer.

Sligo lung transplant recipient Vera Dwyer passes away 33 years after life-saving operation

John Ring

Judge lifts order on naming of accused after challenge

John Lynch leaving Loughan House open prison in Cavan

Arsonist child killer John Lynch is released after nine years

(L-R), Donnacha, Dominic, Ellen, Aoife and Regina McGeown at Rooses Point last Saturday.

Sligo sizzles in heat

Sport

Thomas Cawley of Sligo goes on a run watched by Roscommon’s Darren Fallon in Dr Hyde Park. PIc: Carl Brennan.

GAA

Mannion says never-say-die attitude won it

Mark Hannify of Sligo who scored 2 goals in the Christy Ring quarter final with Roscommon in Dr Hyde Park on Saturday. Pic: Carl Brennan.

GAA

Hurlers continue making history

Cormac Kearns, Sligo GAA Treasurer.

GAA

First Club Sligo draw set to take place

Sligo defeated Roscommon to make it to the semi-final. PIc: Christine Kilcullen.

GAA

Momentum very much with this youthful U20 side as they take on Derry this evening at home

Joseph Keaney of Sligo in possession. Pic: Gerard O’Loughlin

GAA

Sloyan admits there's a need for more games

Cliona Walsh, U18 Singles Winner.

Other Sports

Packed calendar of events at Sligo Tennis Club this summer

Lee Deignan of Sligo in action in the Connacht U20 Football Championship semi-final in Dr Hyde Park on Wednesday. Pic: Gerard O’Loughlin.

GAA

Late Sligo surge not enough in Semi final

Christopher O’Donnell of North Sligo AC, centre, competing in the Men’s 400m heats during Day One of the Irish Life Health National Senior and U23 Athletics Championships at Morton Stadium in Santry. Pic Sam Barnes/Sportsfile.

Sport

O'Donnell's in superb form for the Olympics

Opinion

Sligo publican Jim McGarry who has bought into the idea of outdoor serving

Paul Deering: Publicans caught in mess not of their making

Stock image

Looming Dublin by-election will be a bellweather for the next Dáil race

Gridlock, the roadworks along the N4/N15 at Hughes’ Bridge, Sligo last Friday (11th)

Hughes Bridge works becoming a real pain

Revelations about fake pollsters are a plague on all the parties’ houses

'One direction in which blame can be pointed is at the Government or, more specifically, our local authorities, many of whom have failed abjectly to prepare for the looming ‘outdoor summer’.' Stock image

It’s not the public’s fault the country isn’t ready for an ‘outdoor summer’

Lockdown eased significantly in Ireland on June 2. (Niall Carson/PA)

There’s light at the end of the tunnel but we can’t afford to be complacent

Rosses Point at the weekend - packed like other resorts around the county

Vaccination must keep pace with reopening

US President Joe Biden

President Biden’s commitment to Ireland is a cause for great optimism

Lifestyle

The megalithic graves at Carrowmore.

Digging up our past

People are being asked to not walk on Queen Maeve’s Cairn on Knocknarea.

Urgent plea to public to not damage Queen's Maeve cairn

The issue of coercive control was highlighted in recent episodes of ITV soap, Coronation Street played by characters Geoff and Yasmeen.

The impact of coercive control is multi-faceted

Eamonn pictured in Ushuia, the southernmost point of Argentina.

A Winter of discontent

Sligo has three representatives at Miss Ireland; Miss Sligo Town, Viktorija Baklastova, Miss Sligo South, Emma Doyle and Miss Sligo, Orla Quinn

Sligo trio for Miss Ireland

The new walk overlooks Aughris Pier

Steeped in history, Aughris walk has many stories to tell

One month after being born, young rabbits are weaned from their mother’s milk, are eating solid food and fending for themselves

Our wild rabbit population fluctuates widely

Andy Bell and Vince Clarke of Erasure

Retro chart this week in 1992: ABBA fans' 'fun' project spends five weeks at top

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