Breaking Sligo News from The Sligo Champion - Independent.ie

Sunday, 3 July 2022 | 11.3°C Dublin

Subscribe
- My Account
- Log Out

News [1]
Sport [2]
Business [3]
Lifestyle [4]
Local Notes [5]
Back to Independent.ie [6]
About Us [7]

Menu Sections

Sligo

News [1]
Sport [2]
Business [3]
Lifestyle [4]
Local Notes [5]
Back to Independent.ie [6]
About Us [7]

Menu Sections

Stock image

Courts

Sligo woman (53) facing a number of fraud charges

Latest News

Courts

Dog got loose and bit young girl, court hears

Ballymote Castle. Pic: Tom Callanan.

News

Ballymote Castle in Sligo reopens after four year closure

Down Yonder, a nine bedroom house for sale in Rosses Point

Lifestyle

Stunning coastal property in Rosses Point, Sligo on the market for €2.4m

Cllr Casserly beside the new benches.

News

Twelve wheelchair accessible public seats and benches installed across County Sligo

Stock image

Courts

Man was punched and kicked by three men during unprovoked assault in take-away

The Workplace Relations Commission

Courts

Hotel ordered to pay €50,000 to manager alleged to have declared he would ‘take the company for €150,000’

Aerial view of the planned estate.

News

Celebrity architect Hugh Wallace designed 74-house Sligo estate

Sligo Courthouse

News

Man (45) admitted assault at Sligo funeral home

Eddie Walsh beside the panelling from the RMS Britannic.

News Premium

Childhood home of Countess Markievicz faces a bright future again as Lissadell reopens after Covid pandemic

Photo: Stock image

News

Sligo housing prices up by €20,000 in a year

News

Dog got loose and bit young girl, court hears

Stock image

Sligo woman (53) facing a number of fraud charges

Cllr Casserly beside the new benches.

Twelve wheelchair accessible public seats and benches installed across County Sligo

Sligo University Hospital.

Minister Stephen Donnelly to meet local TDs to discuss closure of Cath Lab at Sligo University Hospital

The Famine Museum at Strokestown Park. Photo by Colin Shanahan

National Famine Museum in Strokestown reopens after €5m investment

Ballymote Castle. Pic: Tom Callanan.

Ballymote Castle in Sligo reopens after four year closure

American Tapestry Chorus.

American Tapestry Chorus team up with Sligo Gospel Choir for special concert

Pictured at the launch of MyCareerPath.ie held at ATU Galway were Peter Smith career adviser, Bridie Killoran career and learning manager of Careerpath way and Máire Ward of Medtronic Galway.

Sligo conference assesses if third level is meeting the needs of enterprise

Sport

Summerhill College's Joe Campbell won the Tailteann Games 400m.

Other Sports

Victory for Sligo's athlete Joe Campbell at Tailteann Games

Drogheda United’s Andrew Quinn and Sligo Rovers' Max Mata in action on Friday. Pic: Paul Connor.

Soccer Premium

Sligo Rovers manager John Russell hoping to ‘right the wrongs’ as Shelbourne up next

The Sligo U16 team who defeated Clare in the Fr Manning Cup.

GAA

Flynn, Devlin and Sweeney all find the net for victorious Sligo

Chris O'Donnell of North Sligo AC, celebrates winning the men's 400m during day two of the Irish Life Health National Senior Track and Field Championships 2022 at Morton Stadium in Dublin. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile.

Other Sports

Sligo’s Lauren Cadden and Chris O’Donnell become National champions in style

Ross Donovan, Sligo, in action against Galway's Padraic Joyce in the 2009 Connacht semi-final in Markievicz Park. Pic: Ray Ryan/Sportsfile.

GAA

Donovan, McGuire and Harrison on their glory days with Sligo

St Mary's are launching the initiative on Saturday.

GAA

St Mary’s set to launch club’s sensory space this weekend in Sligo

Pictured receiving the U13A championship trophy on behalf of Sligo GAA were Bernardine McGauran, Secretary Sligo GAA, Deirdre Gethins, Chair Coiste na nÓg, Sligo GAA with Danny and Ciarán Feeney.

GAA

Kelly and Feeney families present new U13 trophies to Sligo GAA

Michael Langan of St Molaise Gaels.

GAA

New U19 championship begins today in Sligo

Business & Farming

Dermot Gilmartin (l) of the Sligo CEF branch accepting the award for ‘Most Improved Branch’ from Leo Donovan, CEO of WEEE Ireland at Ireland’s electrical awards hosted by the Association of Electrical Wholesalers and sponsored by WEEE Ireland.

CEF Sligo wins lighting recycling award

Barrie Cox, David Collery, Una Parsons, Trevor McSharry, Patrick Sweeney (Atlantic Technological University Sligo) and Deirdre O’Kane.

Construction Excellence award for ATU Sligo road engineering course

Diamond Coast Hotel General Manager, Michael Yates (right) receives the award.

Enniscrone hotel’s wedding award

MEP MacManus with Arigna Mining Experience manager, Valerie Stenson.

MEP praises economic role of visitor attraction the Arigna Mining Experience

Frank Feighan

Digital hubs at Tubbercurry and Castleconner in Sligo each receive €75,000 in funding

EirGrid Head of Public Engagement, Sinead Dooley says the roadshow is all about communities.

Eirgrid’s Sligo roadshow to outline future electricity plans

Deputy Martin Kenny.

Survey shows up the low pay of apprentices

Get Up and Go Publications Ltd Sales Director Brendan Sands is presented with the company’s 5 In A Row Business All-Star Accreditation Jersey at Croke Park.

Sligo firm, Get Up and Go wins fifth business award in a row

Lifestyle

Down Yonder, a nine bedroom house for sale in Rosses Point

Stunning coastal property in Rosses Point, Sligo on the market for €2.4m

Kiko joined Pete at work on Bring Your Dog To Work Day

Premium

Pete Wedderburn Opinion Need staff? Let them bring their dogs to work

The new Nissan JUKE Hybrid.

Motoring Extra Nissan’s JUKE goes hybrid

Whether at personal or organisational level, recognition is has a huge role in growing relationships, people and organisations.

Staff recognition will lead to a happier team, workplace and culture

Paperback Writer was No. 1 in the UK, Ireland and the US.

RETRO CHART 1966: Paul McCartney did not feel the love on this Beatles’ No. 1

Reese Witherspoon in Election (Friday, BBC3, 9p.m.)

Top films to watch on TV this week

Bach Rescue Remedy Balance & Positivity is formulated to support emotional balance and to help you maintain a positive outlook during busy days.

Naturally Healthy Rescue Remedy to the rescue

A showy, so-called ‘wildflower meadow’ created from a seed packet containing mainly non-native species.

Nature Trail A wildflower meadow needs to be planned

Obituaries

Fr Roger McDonagh.

Gurteen’s Fr Roger had a love of laughter

The late Evelyn Mullaney.

The late Evelyn Mullaney’s long life in Tubbercurry

The late Peter Davey from Chaffpool, Co Sligo.

Peter Davey loved the theatre and stage

The late Pat Cosgrove from Ballinafad.

Pat Cosgrove was ‘a one in a million character’

The late Monsignor Travers.

Monsignor Travers’ 70 years of diocesan service

The late Fr Leo Flynn.

Fr Flynn’s strong devotion to Nigerian mission

The late Margaret Killoran.

Margaret Killoran was ‘a child that awoke the town’

The late Monsignor Cormac Burke at his computer where he loved writing his blog.

From Sligo to Nairobi - never forgetting Sligo Rovers