More than 50% of septic tanks fail inspection tests in 2024
Waste problem placing homeowners’ health and environment at risk, says Environmental Protection Agency
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Leitrim County Council: Ballinamore, Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton local electoral areas LEAs
More than 1,400 owners of XL Bully dogs applied for ownerships certs before ban deadline
Total does not include applications made to Mayo, Laois and Carlow county councils
‘It was the nail in the coffin’: The business that’s closing due to rising council rates
Just under half of 31 local authorities will raise rates this year. Increases range from 1.8% to 15%
Local Elections: Leitrim County Council results
Fianna Fáil held its six seats and is now largest party on council, with Independents and Sinn Féin benefitting from Fine Gael losses
‘As a woman and an elder, I have a lot of experience’: Meet Ireland’s older local election candidates
Local election candidates: Age no obstacle to cohort of elder candidates contesting the local elections, with first-time candidates ranging in vintage from 18 years to 89
Leitrim council issues proceedings over plan to house asylum seekers in hotel
Hotel owner has brought separate but related case over council’s decision to invalidate its building compliance certificate
Drumshanbo: ‘The gin took off beyond our wildest dreams’
Thirty years ago the closures of three big employers inflicted huge trauma on the Leitrim town. But now it is thriving again and, driven by a vibrant food and drink sector, plans are in place for even further growth
Carrick-on-Shannon has been calling for a new school for 10 years
‘Our school is against every health and safety regulation under the sun’, says principal of Scoil Mhuire school community in Co Leitrim
Refugee accommodation in Leitrim shut down over fire safety concerns
Department cancels contract after inspections raise concerns over accommodation for Ukrainian refugees
Delays fixing faulty septic tanks threaten human health and water courses, EPA says
Number of inspections in Clare, Waterford and Offaly ‘well below requirements’
Former MBNA offices in Carrick-on-Shannon reopen as €9m office complex
Leitrim County Council seeks to attract 700 jobs to Carrick Business Park after demise of call centre employing 1,200
From Manorhamilton with love: A dynamic Border town in full regeneration mode
Grá le Manor campaign aims to show visitors the artistic town is thriving even as it gets a much-needed facelift
Flipping emigration: Leitrim leaders in US to encourage people to move to the county
Members of a mission to New York say there are plenty of work opportunities in the county - but more houses are needed
Court extends order preventing illegal occupation at council-run Traveller Group Housing scheme
Council says people had no right to be there and bay they were occupying posed a health and safety risk
Stories of the sweathouse: A beehive-shaped bolthole for battling maladies
There are at least 292 sweathouses on the island, 104 of them in Co Leitrim
Painting of famous 1916 Rising photograph to hang in the Seanad
Artist Sinead Guckian reverses the Pearse surrender photograph to reveal the woman
‘Extensive damage’ caused by mudslides in Leitrim
Thousands of tonnes of bog slipped down Shass mountain near Drumkeeran village
Shannon floods: Locals divided on how to tackle crisis
Residents of Carrick-in-Shannon want action so they can 'get on with our lives'
Clerics defend Fr Oliver O’Reilly after Quinn complains to Vatican
Priestly brotherhood backs Fr O’Reilly in sermon row after assault on Kevin Lunney
Fracking ban in Republic ‘null and void’ if there is drilling in Fermanagh
Exploration company Tamboran claims Fermanagh’s natural gas resources could be worth £20bn over 25 years
Leitrim Echoes of the Great War: Book 40 years in the writing due for launch
Retired teacher Padraig Griffin researched Leitrim natives killed in first World War
June date pencilled in for cancelled Irish University Championships
Wet and windy conditions led to the cancellation of Lough Rinn Regatta for the second year in a row
Isme hits out at Brexit-proof clause in State procurement contract
Group angered by what it sees as effort to pass on risk of no deal to small business
‘People in Rooskey are not racist’: Locals dismayed at asylum centre fire
Minister ‘deeply concerned’ over fire at disused hotel earmarked for asylum seekers
Teenager quoted €18,693.90 to insure a 14-year-old car
Quote described as ‘outrageous’ and a tax on rural Ireland
Flagship award for Kerry Central Regional Water Supply Scheme
Excellence Awards highlight the outstanding and diverse achievements of engineers
Seán Gallagher says voters will not engage until closer to polling day
Businessman shrugs off poll findings: ‘I am living proof unprecedented things happen’
Joan Freeman receives presidential nomination from Cork City Council
Businessman Gavin Duffy gets backing for Áras bid from councillors in Meath
Councillors ‘alarmed’ at Carrick-on-Shannon shop closures
Leithrim council should conduct exit interviews with traders who shut, officials told
Seán Gallagher: ‘‘Tweetgate’ still pains me greatly’
Would-be presidential candidate says 2011 RTÉ incident caused him to doubt himself
Lidl to rebuild Fortunestown Lane supermarket
Company ‘blown away’ by support in locality after store looted and destroyed during snow
Miriam Lord’s Week: High-Vis Varadkar drives FG rebranding
Taoiseach turns himself into shovel-ready project as he makes big announcements
Full list of local property tax rate increases and decreases for 2018
The tax automatically returns to the base rate each year of 0.18% of the house price
Fears that social welfare policy making young adults homeless
Jobseeker’s Allowance for under-26s much lower than standard payment of €193 a week
Lidl appeals Carrick-on-Shannon decision to An Bord Pleanála
German supermarket hopes to relocate to site that is closer to rivals Tesco and Aldi
Lidl faces opposition to Carrick-on-Shannon supermarket
Local campaigners say the proposed development would be a ‘garish carbuncle’
Dublin and Donegal only counties to put sites on register to stop the hoarding of land
More than €27m of sites owned by Dublin City Council
Bord Pleanála refuses permission for Lidl store in Leitrim
Board overrules council in blocking Carrick-on-Shannon development
Angling Notes: Leitrim council awards €100,000 to develop lake angling
Grant will assist in building centre of excellence to attract domestic and overseas anglers
‘Brokeback Mountain’ author Annie Proulx at Iron Mountain
Writer praises Dermot Healy at literature festival but has a pop at John Steinbeck
Council sick leave rates highest in Leitrim, Louth and Dublin
Absenteeism in every local authority exceeds that of private sector, new figures show
Seven councils built no social housing from 2013 to 2015
Department of Housing: Projects under way will see hundreds of homes built in 2016
A walk for the weekend: Eagle’s Rock, Co Leitrim
This glacial formation is an awe-inspiring centrepiece for a tough but rewarding walk
Leitrim conference aims to encourage inward investment
County uses business showcase to display its strength in food, tourism and creative sector
Councils to receive €85million for road repairs following storms
A total of €106 million to be distributed this year with further council funding in May
Estimated cost from damage following flooding set to reach €100m
Local authorities claim the cost of infrastructural damage and the clean-up is “significantly higher” than the €60 million predicted
Storm Frank’s heavy rains to increase flood risk
Met Éireann forecasts above average rainfall as River Shannon begins to rise once again
Fracking is bad news story for book inspired by Leitrim Observer
Gleanings is the result of Monica Corish’s creative residency at her local newspaper, but she wants to make headlines about the threat fracking poses to the environment
Carrick’s Kurds relish a life more ordinary after years as refugees
The community of Kurds came to Leitrim in 2006 under a UN-resettlement programme
Kelly outlines €1.5 billion plan for social housing
Combined funding for Dublin authorities comes to over €500m for 6,849 new units
Half of €9.3m fire brigade fees not collected in 2014
‘Irish Times’ research found eight out of 22 counties collected under half what was owed
O’Donovan and O’Driscoll best medal prospects at University Worlds
New course at Lough Rinn to be officially opened on October 3rd
Leitrim County Council calls for end to drilling work by mining firm Tamboran
Councillors vote unanimously to seek the intervention of Taoiseach and British prime minister David Cameron
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