Archaeological remains of five children found as council construct cylce laneRemains of five children and an adult may be more than 1,000 years oldMon Oct 12 2015 - 01:00
Strokestown House and Famine Museum to begin fresh chapterSite to be taken over by Irish Heritage Trust, which also runs Fota House in CorkMon Oct 05 2015 - 01:00
Garda ‘on same page’ as PSNI on IRA threat, O’Sullivan saysFrances Fitzgerald says ‘no blind eye’ will be turned to actions of Provisional IRAWed Sept 30 2015 - 17:03
‘Most dangerous’ stretch of N4 to get €102m upgrade14km stretch between Castlebaldwin and Collooney has claimed the lives of 30 peopleTue Sept 29 2015 - 21:24
Irish lives: Guarding the red grouse on Boleybrack mountainIn 2007, just four pairs of the birds were left on the mountain, now 98 have been recordedSat Sept 26 2015 - 01:00
Spanish Armada dead remembered in Sligo ceremony1,100 died when, in violent storms in September 1588, three ships from the Armada were driven ashore and wreckedSun Sept 20 2015 - 21:28
Former Sligo footballer playing piano in all 32 countiesKieran Quinn came late to both his passions: GAA and playing musicSat Sept 12 2015 - 07:19
Gangs engaged in telephone cable theft as copper the prizeRural lifeline for hundreds severed as thieves ‘burn off plastic’ to harvest valuable metalThu Sept 03 2015 - 20:38
‘Rent-a-room’ incentive is insufficient, Galway councillor saysHousing crisis affecting students, new employees and almost 4,500 on housing listThu Aug 20 2015 - 01:01
Fleadh Cheoil attracts record numbers to SligoAbout 450,000 go to music competition and traders report 25% increase in footfallMon Aug 17 2015 - 01:00
Sligo county councillor dies after suspected heart attackSéamus O’Boyle (57) was taken to hospital after van crashed in Sligo townTue Aug 11 2015 - 22:26
‘I have lots of other things going on. I am not just the cancer girl’Cancer is not going to stand in the way of this teenager, who is looking forward to a future of art and writingTue Aug 11 2015 - 01:00
Fleadh Cheoil gets off to busy startBoys and girls came out to play in spite of rain in SligoTue Aug 11 2015 - 01:00
Fleadh Cheoil: ‘biggest Irish trad music festival’ launchedSligo event a magnet for ‘larger Irish family’ and those with no Irish links, says PresidentSun Aug 09 2015 - 20:22
Stage set for fleadh to attract more than 350,000 visitorsMusic lovers converge on Sligo for event, which will be launched by President HigginsFri Aug 07 2015 - 01:00
Stabbing in Sligo being treated as murderCommunity left ‘absolutely numb’ from death of much respected musician (59)Tue Aug 04 2015 - 22:23
Sligo man Matt Kivlehan stabbed to death, postmortem findsTwo held over death of musician (59) as gardaí treat incident as murder caseTue Aug 04 2015 - 14:17
Gardaí investigate after body found with stab wounds in SligoRemains of man (59), found in apartment on Holborn Street on Monday afternoonTue Aug 04 2015 - 00:23
GSOC case against couple struck out in Sligo courtJudge criticises Garda witnesses and indicates he was unimpressed by evidence so farWed Jul 29 2015 - 21:40
Fine Gael TD receives ‘sinister’ death threatHandwritten letter sent to Frank Feighan says ‘I know the time you leave the house’Mon Jul 27 2015 - 17:46
Joseph O’Connor opens Yeats Summer School in SligoStudents from around the world gather ahead of 150th-birthday celebrationsMon Jul 27 2015 - 01:00
Drumcliffe still a draw for Yeats fans, says festival headEmergence of new documents cast doubt over whether poet’s remains buried in SligoSat Jul 25 2015 - 11:46
Varadkar visits home at centre of critical reportMinister for Health pays impromptu visit St Patrick’s Hospital in Carrick-on-ShannonSat Jul 25 2015 - 01:00
Reilly says childcare measures depend on available fundsChildcare proposals ‘very much predicated on what money is available at any given time’Wed Jul 22 2015 - 19:56
Anti-fracking group asks farmers to consider refusing survey accessGeophysics professor says that the Love Leitrim campaigners’ claims are ‘off the wall’Wed Jul 22 2015 - 01:00
Divers recover four Spanish Armada cannonsThree more guns off Sligo coast to be brought ashore after lying submerged for 400 yearsTue Jul 21 2015 - 01:00
No surprise in Sligo about new documentation over WB Yeats’s burial‘Nothing will change for Drumcliffe’ according to former Yeats Society chief executiveMon Jul 20 2015 - 01:00
A bad day for Ben Bulben as Yeats performance abandonedMountain-top staging of Yeats’s ‘Purgatory’ called off due to heavy rainfallSun Jul 19 2015 - 16:00
Retired bishop sounds warning over west of Ireland’s futureTowns in west much more ‘socially and economically alive’ decades ago than todayFri Jul 17 2015 - 19:23
Cabinet to meet in Lissadell House next weekMeeting will mark 150th anniversary of the birth of WB YeatsTue Jul 14 2015 - 19:22
Poets and fans gather for WB Yeats celebrations in Sligo‘Absolutely Fabulous’ actor Joanna Lumley declares Sligo has stolen her heartSun Jun 14 2015 - 13:43
Edna O’Brien says she is ‘increasingly astonished’ by YeatsWriter the guest of honour at Nobel dinner, at start of Yeats festival in Sligo to mark 150 years since his birthFri Jun 12 2015 - 01:04
Funeral tributes for Bishop Thomas FlynnCardinal Brady led clergy members who paid their respects to retired Bishop of AchonryMon Jun 08 2015 - 01:00
Carrick’s Kurds relish a life more ordinary after years as refugeesThe community of Kurds came to Leitrim in 2006 under a UN-resettlement programmeSat May 30 2015 - 01:00
Ovarian cancer: ‘I don’t know what stage I was at. I was afraid to ask’Notorious as a ‘silent killer’, the symptoms of ovarian cancer can be very difficult to detectMon May 25 2015 - 08:00
‘We all have regrets’, says Prince Charles in SligoMullaghmore tragedy helped him understand the widespread suffering, he saysWed May 20 2015 - 15:21
Inquest hears woman (86) had to bang on table to call nursesCoroner Eamonn MacGowan returned a verdict of death by medical misadventureMon May 11 2015 - 17:00
Kenny congratulates Cameron on ‘stunning victory’Taoiseach says newly elected British PM ‘wants to stay in European Union’Sat May 09 2015 - 19:27
Taoiseach heckled by anti-water charge protesters in SligoAbout 100 people turn backs on Enda Kenny and US ambassador at Civil War eventSat May 09 2015 - 17:54
Loss of up to 70 jobs at Sligo firm a ‘devastating blow’Elanco says 30-day consultation phase being held to help employees ‘understand changes’Wed Apr 29 2015 - 16:20
Sligo council calls on Government to pay Lissadell billCouncil paid own costs in right-of-way case and was directed to pay 75% of owners’ costsTue Apr 21 2015 - 01:00
FF selects MacSharry, Scanlon to run in Sligo-LeitrimChoice of two Sligo-based candidates provokes concern among party grassrootsSat Apr 18 2015 - 10:10
Walk to recall Famine victims offered flight or starvationWalk from Roscommon to Dublin honours the ‘missing 1,490’ Strokestown tenantsSat Apr 18 2015 - 01:00
Leitrim men’s group fears closure after almost 20 yearsDepartment accused of being ‘hell bent’ on closing scheme that combats social isolationMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:00
Woman who died after giving birth saved lives through organ donationHusband of Sally Rowlette speaks about decision to help others to live after his wife died the day after giving birth to their fourth childThu Mar 26 2015 - 17:30
Staff at Sligo college to stage second strike over NUIG mergerStaff at St Angela’s college say they would be effectively demoted from ‘lecturers’Mon Mar 23 2015 - 19:40
Spike Milligan material to be revealed at Sligo festivalSongs written by the Goon were found by actor daughter Jane who will perform themMon Mar 23 2015 - 00:22
Enda Kenny presents Barack Obama with hand-printed Yeats for St Patrick’s DayPoetry volume presented by Taoiseach to president made by grandniece of 1916 leaderTue Mar 17 2015 - 23:13
Arigna pays tribute to miners on 25th anniversary of coal mines closingEx-miners, now guides, recall savage working conditionsSat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
A week in my . . . infection control room: ‘Rings and watches can be major carriers of bacteria’Joanne Flanagan is the infection prevention and control nurse specialist at the Blackrock Clinic in DublinThu Feb 26 2015 - 07:00
