BUSINESS leaders in the west are to step up their efforts to keep two regional airports open following the Government’s decision to terminate funding from the end of this year.

Two hundred and fifty workers in Sligo are today coming to terms with the news that their jobs are gone, with the closure of Stiefel Laboratories.

Gardaí in Sligo are investigating an incident in which an incendiary device was thrown through the window of a pub owned by a prominent local businesswoman.

ALTHOUGH not quite premier league, Sligo has, like its League of Ireland soccer team, been placed in the first division under the National Spatial Strategy. It is one of nine towns and cities earmarked for accelerated growth over the next two decades.