Sligo food festival on this weekend

Pope appoints former Sligo priest as bishop

The Pope has appointed a former Sligo priest as Bishop of Kerry. Fr. Raymond Browne takes over the top position in the Kerry diocese after the the resignation of Bishop William Murphy. Pope Francis made the appointment today, Thursday. A native of Chapel Street, Athlone, the new bishop is aged 56. He attended Summerhill College [...]

Garda searches in Sligo Town and Tubbercurry

SEARCH: A number of  Gardai on their way back to their vehicles after a Drugs Raid at Ard Na Mara, Cartron on Friday 19th April. Gardai, including members of the armed regional response unit, carried out searches of houses and their surroundings in Sligo town and Tubbercurry in the past week. The search in Sligo [...]

McHugh’s helping Irish Cancer Society

DAFFODIL: The staff at McHugh’s get into the Daffodil Day spirit. McHugh’s bar in Sligo town have continued their ongoing charitable work to help the Irish Cancer Society. With the recent dismal weather, the annual Daffodil Day collection day was not as successful as in previous years. So McHugh’s has come up with the novel [...]

Posthumous honour for student Luke.

PASSING: IT Sligo student Luke Savage, who died in June 2012.Third level students across the Republic have paid a poignant national tribute to Luke Savage, an inspirational IT Sligo student who died last year. He has been posthumously named as winner of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life at the inaugural USI Student [...]

Sligo Rover’s victory

Sligo Rovers extended their string of league victories to seven with a comfortable if not resounding 2-0 defeat of second-from-bottom Shelbourne in the Showgrounds on Saturday night last, April 6. The Bit O’ Red have had a dream start to the defence of their title, but with Derry City hot on their heels, Ian Baraclough [...]

Papers the subject of field club lecture

  Sligo-born Dr. Mark Wehrly, who holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland Maynooth, will address the Sligo Field Club at the IT Sligo Education Centre on Friday Feb 22. As a member of the Executive Committee of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland, his lecture will focus on the relationship [...]

Pre-season continues to give us positives for 2013

Sligo Rovers fan David Goulden reflects on another good weekend for his team as they prepare for the start of the title defence Another pre-season game under the belt and our first venture into Europe of 2013 completed, the team and a handful of fans returned to Sligo on Sunday evening last having enjoyed what [...]

Sligo’s unexpected show

So the GAA’s bizarre tagline to promote this year’s Allianz Football League, Unexpect the Expected, was meant for Sligo all along.  Perhaps the most satisfying aspect of last Sunday’s two-point defeat of Antrim at Markievicz Park, 1-12 to 0-13, wasn’t that it put Sligo’s first points on the board (in a tier destined to spit [...]