Leitrim is a county in Ireland.
Gallery Good old days: when sending a picture postcard home was as popular as sharing a WhatsApp holiday selfie today Retired Corkman Tom Cronin was first seduced by the picture postcard when he arrived in Casablanca, in north Africa, at the age of 16. He’d lied about his age, got hired as a deckhand and ran away to sea.
Revealed: The counties where drivers face longest wait times for NCT Motorists in some parts of the country face waiting until next year to book an appointment online for a National Car Test (NCT) as demand soars.
Premium ‘When I first received the email, I thought it must be a joke’ – relief as rural towns get AIB to back down ‘When communities stand together, they can achieve anything,” was the delighted reaction from one GAA club after it emerged that AIB had reversed its decision to turn 70 branches into cashless facilities.
AIB climbs down over plans to remove cash services from 70 branches due to ‘public unease’ AIB has reversed its decision to turn 70 branches into cashless facilities after a massive backlash.
Gallery Premium Empty buildings signal the slow death of an Irish town Every day, on her way to and from work, Annemarie Ryan Shiner passes some of the 84 empty and unused buildings in Tipperary town. Many have been empty for years.
Revealed: the counties which have a Covid incidence rate of more than 400 per 100,000 COUNTIES Laois, Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Cork, Sligo and Limerick had the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 last week.
Gallery Premium Record homeless levels are ‘just a few weeks away’ The country is on the brink of record levels of homelessness in the coming weeks, the Simon Communities of Ireland has warned.
Local authorities spent €320,000 on St Patrick’s Day trips Local authorities around the country spent almost €320,000 sending county councillors and officials abroad for St Patrick’s Day, with one council accounting for nearly a third of the spending.
Country Matters: A ruthless visitor to a strange, magical landscape Richard Mabey, renowned English naturalist, saw the Burren (boí reann, rocky place) as somewhere suspended between savagery and civilis ation where brief advances in cultivation were followed by retreat, returning the landscape to a time before human presence.
Gallery Premium What lies beneath: Bennie Reilly's folk of the far-away tree BENNIE REILLY Far Away Idyll
Gallery ‘To Ukraine with love’ – Irish hotels raise flags and funds to support a people in crisis Walking through Belfast's Cathedral Quarter the other day, I stopped outside the Merchant Hotel.
Premium Idle land worth hundreds of millions could help ease housing crisis Land worth hundreds of millions of euro that could be used for housing or regeneration is lying idle around the country, despite property values at their highest in more than a decade. Council data show a vast quantity of vacant site register lands are in urban centres where there is an acute demand for property. If developed, the land could be used to build thousands of homes.
Gallery Storm Eunice: ‘I prayed we’d be safe’ – wife of tragic council worker killed by falling tree A COUNCIL worker killed by a falling tree during Storm Eunice has been remembered as “an extremely great husband and father”.
Gallery Premium Work follows the workers: global giants go down to the country Lily Haskins, vice president of international transformation at New York-headquartered Diligent Corporation, spent a year examining 25 cities to identify the best location for a European hub for the provider of corporate governance software tools.
Premium Paul Williams Opinion A plague on rural Ireland and that hasn’t changed since I was staring down the barrel of a gun 40 years ago The first crime story I ever covered happened almost 40 years ago and concerned a disturbing phenomenon which has haunted Irish country life ever since – it’s categorised as ‘rural crime’.
Leitrim group seeks to overturn licence to plant ‘dark and lifeless’ sitka spruce trees at Wardhouse A Co Leitrim environmental group has issued High Court proceedings aimed at overturning a licence allowing the planting of 4.7 hectares of land with trees to include the “dark and lifeless” sitka spruce species.
Leitrim-based Avant Money has almost doubled the size of its loan book to €1bn Avant Money, a consumer-finance company owned by Spanish banking group Bankinter, has reported the size of its loan book has nearly doubled in size to €1bn.
Premium Colin Murphy Opinion Why the Wran is flying higher than ever before Tomorrow morning Aoife Granville, a lecturer at University College Cork, will drag a sack of old clothes out of the attic.
Premium Richard Curran Opinion Forestry sector needs more than just extra pen-pushers There is something truly bizarre going on in our forestry sector – and it was highlighted very strongly during the week, when those involved in forestry protested outside the Dáil.
Premium Richard Curran Opinion Forestry sector needs more than just extra pen-pushers There is something truly bizarre going on in our forestry sector – and it was highlighted very strongly during the week, when those involved in forestry protested outside the Dáil.
Gallery Skelligs warden Robert Harris: ‘The local puffins have become pushy, and make runs to hide under my bed when they can’ “eco Back in 1987 I was living with my young family in the hills of north Leitrim, not far from Sligo town. I loved the surroundings, but my life was at a crossroads. A small theatre company I had been working with had disbanded. I found myself reluctant to return to my former studies in Edinburgh. I was in my early 30s, and my alternatives seemed uncertain.
Gallery Choice office investments in Dublin and Leitrim come up for sale Two office investment properties have been brought to the market this week by estate agents Savills.
Children aged under four in intensive care among 33 hospitalised with Covid-19 in two weeks A number of children seriously ill with Covid-19 were admitted to intensive care in the last fortnight amid ongoing uncertainty about the impact of the virus on schools in the coming months.
Coronavirus is found in sewage treatment plants across country The virus that causes Covid-19 has been detected for the first time in wastewater across the whole country.
Gallery Story behind the photo that captured horror of 9/11 attacks It was an unforgettable photograph on a day of shocking images. Five men struggle to carry a man through the rubble after the first of the World Trade Center towers had collapsed during the 9/11 attacks. In contrast to the exhaustion and fear on the men’s faces, the man being carried seems at peace.
Deaths in August the highest of summer months as Nphet seeks more jabs before easing restrictions August has been the worst month this summer for reported Covid-19 related fatalities.
Gallery Premium Coalition at war on right to build one-off houses A fresh Coalition split has emerged over Fine Gael’s desire to continue to allow one-off housing to be built across the country as part of the Government’s response to the housing crisis — a policy position opposed by the Greens.
Premium John Connell Opinion John McGahern’s novel ‘The Dark’ still casts light on the way we live today Walking the country lanes this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of life, the emergence of us collectively from our months-long personal cocoons and the feel of summer in the air. Here in the midlands and border region, these are the same roads that a man of my profession walked years ago.
Premium John Connell Opinion John McGahern’s novel ‘The Dark’ still casts light on the way we live today Walking the country lanes this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of life, the emergence of us collectively from our months-long personal cocoons and the feel of summer in the air. Here in the midlands and border region, these are the same roads that a man of my profession walked years ago.
Two arrests and 80 fined over Leitrim funeral attended by hundreds Two people were arrested and more than 80 fines issued over a funeral attended by hundreds of people this week, gardaí have said.
