The motion calling for the vote received the backing of Sligo County Council, and will take place in September.

A former Fine Gael councillor caught on camera by an undercover reporter seeking £10,000 in cash in return for business favours is set to be brought before an ethics watchdog over the controversy in September.

A man who slipped on tiles on the front porch of his local authority home has been awarded €105,000 by the High Court.

Half of homeowners’ septic tanks failed to meet the required standard last year, it has emerged.

The undertaker who made world headlines when he transported a decommissioned Boeing 767 by sea to his planned glamping village, has hit out at banks who he claimed treat the west of Ireland as a “no-go area”.

A farmer has got orders halting works to connect a windfarm in Co Sligo to an electricity substation in Co Leitrim after a High Court judge ruled it was incorrectly decided the works do not require planning permission.

The funeral will take place this afternoon of a Sligo County Council worker who was struck by a lorry while working on a roadside last week.

One could not stop one’s foot tapping.

IT is a sad comment on the priorities of Sligo County Council when over three hundred people were left with no choice but to protest yesterday over the threatened closure of the Sligo town branch library and the feared reduction of library services elsewhere in the county.

The Taoiseach will formally reopen Lissadell House as a tourism attraction on Friday, following its four-year closure during a marathon €10m legal battle.

The average €240 a year water bills for each home will be wastefully squandered, according to councillors on one council.

The owners of the historic Lissadell estate have launched a furious attack on Sligo County Council which they defeated in a multi-million euro row over a right-of-way.

The coastline in front of Lissadell House must be the most expensive real estate in Christendom.

Sligo County Council is facing a bill of several million euro after the Supreme Court ordered it to pay most of the costs of the long and bitter legal row over public rights of way across the historic Lissadell estate in Co Sligo.

Sligo County Council has been ordered to pay most of the costs arising from a multi-million euro legal action over a public rights of way row at the historic Lissadell Estate.

The recent attack by an Akita dog on a small child in Limerick follows a similar attack in Sligo just over a year ago.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

The environment minister has confirmed that the local government official who presided over Sligo County Council’s Lissadell court saga has walked off with a pension lump sum payment of over €250,000.

Sligo County Council may have to fork out several million euro in legal costs after the owners of the Lissadell estate won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that there are no public rights of way across four avenues through the historic grounds.

The owners of the historic Lissadell Estate have won an appeal against a finding that rights of way exist on the property.

Former Westlife member Kian Egan and wife Jodi Albert are still seeking privacy at their home in Strandhill, outside Sligo.

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.

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.

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, an international promoter has said.

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, according to an international promoter.

MINISTER Phil Hogan’s new property tax, however inevitable, appears to be premature.

THIRTEEN recently elected members of the Seanad are to share a windfall of almost €440,000.

THE Freedom of Information Act (FoI) is too often clubbed on the head by state agencies and left comatose as far as smaller community groups are concerned.

THE owners of Lissadell House have secured it with barbed wire wrapped around poles and there are boulders blockading access to the Yeats Museum in a separate coach-house.

AFTER spending more than €13 million on the 410-acre estate they bought in 2003, the owners of Sligo’s Lissadell House yesterday looked set to appeal a High Court decision that public rights of way exist across the historic grounds.

Following a protracted legal battle, the High Court has ruled that public rights of way do exist at the historic Lissadell estate in Sligo.

A decision is expected today in the long-running legal row over public rights of way at the Lissadell estate in Sligo.

THE north and west bore the brunt of gales yesterday, with flash floods, trees brought down and forecasters warning of hurricane- force gusts battering inland.

A WOMAN attacked by a bull on Sligo’s Mullaghmore beach thought she was going to be killed by the animal.

DESPITE having paid out over €1.2 million due to pothole damage since 2005, local authorities have no specific definition as to what actually constitutes a pothole.

ALMOST 1,000 people own between 12 and 21 non-primary properties according to the agency which, by yesterday’s deadline, had netted almost €47 million through the €200 property tax on second homes.

COUNCIL officials in several western counties have warned water supplies are at seriously low levels after weeks of dry weather.

Council officials in several western counties have warned water supplies are at seriously low levels after weeks of dry weather.

Concert promoters confirmed today what Leonard Cohen fans have been saying for days – Everybody Knows the singer-songwriter will perform in Ireland this summer.

FORMER Fianna Fáil Senator Willie Farrell died yesterday at the age of 81 in Sligo General Hospital.

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.

ELEVEN people are to lose their jobs with the decision of the owners of Lissadell House in Co Sligo to close the historic estate to the public.

WITH its runway jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, the approach to Sligo Airport is one of the most picturesque (and for nervous types, most hair-raising) locations of any Irish airport.