Local authorities who can achieve their targets as part of a €1.5bn social housing plan designed to reduce the housing waiting lists by a quarter will be rewarded, Environment Minister Alan Kelly has pledged. 

Concern over businesses and non-domestic water customers

Councils have to bail out the losses racked up by public pools and leisure centres, says Conor Ryan, Investigative Correspondent.

The scale at which urban property taxpayers are subsidising rural ones could provoke a renewed backlash against the levy, Government TDs have warned.

JIMMY GRALTON is the only Irishman to be deported from Ireland in the history of the state, (80 years ago), and he’s also the focus of a film being shot in Co Leitrim at the moment by Ken Loach, which is a companion piece to his 2006 Palme d’Or winner, The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Leitrim joint-manager Brian Breen believes his side's 'running game' will get them over the line against London in Sunday's much-anticipated Connacht SFC semi-final.

Cork City Council has emerged as the best resourced local authority on a per capita basis of all 34 county and city councils in the Republic.

A quarter of the estimated number of householders with waste water systems are still refusing to pay septic tank charges.

The Department of the Environment has written to all county and city managers giving updated details of the sums deducted from their funding as a result of the non-payment of the €100 household charge.

Fire Fighters in Leitrim are threatening industrial action, after 12 part-time fire fighters were sacked by Leitrim County Council for refusing to complete a breathing apparatus training course.

ADDRESSING the national conference of the Irish Planning Institute, Ciaran Tracey, planning officer with Leitrim County Council said if the economic conditions that prevailed in the last year do not pick up, it will take “about nine years to clear vacant housing stock in urban parts of the county and God knows how long elsewhere”.

Staff in local authorities will begin staging a series of protests today against the controversial public service pension levy.

MORE that 60% of local authorities have increased their charges at a time when the focus of the economy should be on reducing costs, Chambers Ireland said last night.

SLIGO County Council provides the best planning service and Clare the worst, according to a study.

A businessman has joined a council’s mission to get Ireland’s smallest county on the international map.

A major diplomatic drive to attract more visitors and new jobs to the country’s smallest county was launched today.

A campaign to lure city dwellers to work and live in Leitrim will be launched today.

LEITRIM COUNTY COUNCIL and Leitrim County Development Board have launched a campaign to bring business to the county and to encourage more people to relocate to work and live there.

PARENTS of a seven-year-old school boy last night held a vigil at his bedside in Beaumont Hospital where he was being treated for serious head injuries after falling from the emergency exit door of a schoolbus.

SEVERAL local authorities in Munster will get far less money per head of capita this year from the Department of the Environment compared to councils in other regions.

Urban council workers in Dublin and Limerick take far more uncertified sick days off than their rural counterparts, it emerged today.

Cork City has the highest rate of rubbish going to landfill, Mayo has provided the least Traveller accommodation and Carlow has the longest public library opening hours, it emerged today.

Seán McCárthaigh Ballyconnell, Co Cavan

PLANNING permission has been granted for a major development at the top GAA ground in Co Leitrim.

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial has been addressed by counsel for the prosecution and the defence on day-12 of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Co Leitrim is about to get its first set of permanent traffic lights.

The An Taisce environmental organisation has called for an independent investigation of alleged planning irregularities in Leitrim and Meath.

Leitrim County Council has impounded three trucks after uncovering an illegal dump at the site of a former meat and bone meal factory.