Tag: Kieran Kenny

Sligo Council seats to be halved

Sligo will have fewer than half of its council seats after next year’s local elections.   Under the Boundary Commission report published yesterday evening (Thursday) Sligo Borough Council will be abolished and there will be a big cut in the number of County councillors. Currently there are 12 seats on the Borough Council and 25 [...]

Sligo school heading for Croker awards

FINALISTS: Scoil Chriost Ri Enniscrone, teacher Deirdre O’Connor, Sinead Tuffy, Tyler O’Connor and Eimear Tuffy pictured with Sligo Rover’s Jake Dykes and        Jack Selby at Our World Irish Aid Awards Regional Final at The Model in Sligo.   Photo by James Connolly/PicSell8 Students from a primary school in West Sligo were among three groups selected [...]

Fight for future of Western Rail Corridor gets heated

OVERGROWN: Looking south from Tubbercurry you can see how the rail lines are overgrown, but largely intact.  Other sections of the track are not so well preserved.  Photos by Robert Cullen. CLOSED OFF: Large gates prevent people from accessing the railway line in Tubbercurry.  The Western Rail Corridor proposes opening this line the entire way [...]

Sligo Weekender presents cheque to North West Hospice

Sligo Weekender Social Media and Events Manager Laura Comiskey (left) presents a cheque to Maeve Butler, Community Relations Co-ordinator of the North West Hospice. The funds were raised from a raffle at the interval at the Nathan Carter concert on the 8th of May at the Sligo Park Hotel. In total €365.50 was raised for [...]

Students selected for Ireland

Sligo’s Barry O’Mahony, the Mervue United and IT Carlow midfielder, has been named in the Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland men’s soccer squad for the forthcoming World University Games. Former Sligo Rovers player O’Mahony, sent off for Mervue United in their EA SPORTS Cup tie against the Bit O’Red at The Showgrounds last [...]

A great comeback from St Mary’s

A superb second-half comeback from St Mary’s denied plucky Calry-St Joseph’s possible silverware in last Thursday’s Sligo Minor A League decider at the IT Sligo GAA pitch in Ballinode. Despite being eight points down at one stage, an understrength St Mary’s, without six key players, emerged winners by 11 points, 3-17 to 3-6, with three [...]

Sligo will respect London’s challenge

Sligo’s Senior Gaelic footballers, last year’s beaten provincial finalists, will be hoping to avoid an embarrassing setback in London in the GAA Football Connacht Senior Championship quarter-final against the Exiles at Ruislip this weekend. Kevin Walsh’s charges are away to London this Sunday throw-in 2.30pm for a tie that the county has never lost in [...]

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 [...]