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John O’Reilly – architect who nurtured and deepened profession’s ties with rest of Europe
- People
- December 6, 2020, 18:01
John O’Reilly, FRIAI, former president of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, died on September 11th, 2020, a week before his 92nd birth(...)

‘Lady Muck’ – An Irishwoman’s Diary on flaunting it
- Opinion
- August 27, 2020, 19:30
Many years ago, my mother went through a brief phase of inventing words and expressions. “He was hyrannical,” she would say, to describe someone who h(...)

Ufurnish: ‘It’s like Skyscanner, but for furniture’
- Work
- August 14, 2020, 05:24
Sligo native Deirdre McGettrick combined her love of design with her experience in finance to create a Skyscanner-type website for home furnishings. (...)

Man dies following collision between car and truck in Co Sligo
- Irish News
- February 13, 2020, 19:28
A man has died following a road traffic collision involving a car and a truck in Co Sligo. The crash happened at about noon on the N4 road between C(...)

Rural broadband: Full list of high-speed internet hubs
- Technology
- November 19, 2019, 16:56
Some 300 towns and villages across Ireland are to get high-speed internet hubs while they await the arrival of the National Broadband Plan. The full l(...)

Hunker down, Sligo householders urge those facing water restrictions on the east
- Environment
- November 9, 2019, 01:30
Householders on the east coast who have been coping with a boil water notice for a number of days have been urged to “hunker down and get ready for th(...)

Murdered in bed: The foul killing of Rosa di Lucia in Sligo
- Offbeat
- November 3, 2019, 07:00
Rosa di Lucia gave birth to her third child a little more than a week before she was killed in her bed at her Sligo home. In the days following the b(...)

Veolia wins water treatment upgrade contracts
- Energy & Resources
- August 9, 2019, 04:45
Engineering group Veolia has won two contracts to upgrade water and waste water treatment plants in the Republic. State company Irish Water plans spe(...)

Beef industry struggles with worst crisis in 40 years
- Irish News
- May 8, 2019, 20:43
For Francie Gorman, a full-time suckler farmer in Portlaoise, the past six months have been as grim as he can remember, as the beef industry struggles(...)

John Perry fails to get nomination to run for Fine Gael in Sligo local elections
- Irish News
- January 23, 2019, 20:33
Former Fine Gael minister of state John Perry has failed to get a nomination to run for the party in the local elections in Sligo next May following a(...)