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Top Stories | Thursday, July 24, 2008


     Westlife’s Kian may have to ‘manage’ his missus!

WESTLIFE star Kian Egan’s latest role may see him ending up managing his bride-to-be Jodi Albert, the Sligo singer has revealed.
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O’Connell St. to get long awaited make-over in ’09

THE first views of what Sligo’s O’Connell Street will look like when enhancement works are completed have been revealed.
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More News | Thursday, July 24, 2008

Flag day success raises over €3,000 for Sligo Samaritans

THE Samaritans Annual Flag Day fundraiser raised just over €3000 in Sligo Town on Thursday, July 17.  more >

Weekender weighs in behind Sligo Rovers rescue bid

SLIGO Rovers recorded their biggest victory of the season on Saturday night to dispel, however briefly, their off-the-pitch financial troubles.  more >

Only half of road traffic cases end in a conviction

ALMOST half the road traffic cases that were due before Sligo District Court last year were dismissed or struck out, according to recently released figures.  more >

Minister opens new Gaeltacht offices in Tubber

THE new decentralised office of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs was officially opened by Minister Éamon Ó Cuiv on Thursday last.  more >

Getting over the message

HUNDREDS of leaflets spelling out the dangers of leaving the North-West without cancer services were handed out as campaigners took to the streets at the weekend.  more >

Rugby club to get new home but neighbours aren’t happy

SLIGO Rugby Club has been granted planning permission for a major development of clubhouse and playing facilities at a new home.  more >

Litter bugs may be named and shamed in crackdown

LITTER bugs will be named and shamed, according to the draft of a litter management plan being drawn up by Sligo Borough Council.  more >

Showgrounds plan for car park spaces

OPTIONS to provide two temporary car parks in Sligo at a cost of €250,000 were due to be put before Sligo Borough Council last night (Monday).  more >

Kian leads search for new girl stars

SLIGO boy band pin up Kian Egan is holding auditions in Dublin this weekend to find five talented young women to form Ireland’s latest girl supergroup.  more >

Have the scales of justice tipped a little too much?

UNFAIR legal loopholes . . . or a vital proof in a criminal case? That’s the question lay people ask after reading yet again how a defendant has got off on a relatively “minor” point of law, but, of course, it all depends on your perspective.  more >

Bed push raises €6,000 in memory of brave Ciara

NORTH Sligo men garda Eugene MacHale and David Warren have raised in the region of €6,000 in memory of a little girl “who touched so many in her short life”.  more >

New hotel gets go-ahead despite local objections

PLANNING Permission has been granted for a new hotel in south Sligo, in spite of the concerns of some local residents.  more >

Using their Loaf

ROCK legend Meat Loaf - who opened the Bundoran Live series of music gigs last Wednesday night after controversially cancelling at the last minute the previous night - secretly stayed in Sligo during his visit to the North-West.  more >

They’ve got a small problem at some big developments north of Sligo

DEVELOPMENT in the Old Bundoran Road area on the outskirts of Sligo town is going to move into the fast lane over the next few years . . . but in one part of it life will go on at a snail’s pace.  more >

Sarkozy remarks lashed as ‘insult’ to Irish people

REMARKS made last week by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy that “the Irish will have to vote again” following last month’s No vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum have been condemned.  more >

Architects give Sligo boost...after bad start to 2008

THE year got off to a bad start in Sligo when the town came top of the pops in two charts it would rather have avoided.  more >

Growth ‘is putting water supply under pressure’

THE increases in population in rural areas in recent years has put massive pressure on the water supply system in County Sligo and the cracks are beginning to show, it has been claimed.  more >

Rosses Point and Enniscrone get walkway aid

THE Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen has approved €150,000 funding for two coastal projects in Co. Sligo.  more >