Surely all investment should be accompanied by a highly public cost benefit analysis before we commit, writes Fergus Finlay

Recent storms have revealed a gruesome surprise in Sligo — the body of a teenager thought to have met a violent death 1,000 years ago.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Recent storms have revealed a gruesome surprise in Sligo - the body of a teenager thought to have met a violent death 1000 years ago.

Sligo 1-13 GMIT 0-08: Veteran forward Mark Breheny scored 1-5 as Sligo secured their first win under new boss Niall Carew thanks to an improved second-half display against plucky GMIT in an entertaining FBD Connacht League Section ‘B’ fixture at Collooney’s Connolly Park.

Ireland’s towns are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn, with poverty rates double that in the cities.

Iarnoid Eireann says the Connolly to Sligo line has re-opened this morning after a man died after he was struck by a train yesterday.

A man has been released by Gardaí in County Sligo after he was detained for questioning over a stabbing in Collooney.

A man in his 20s is being questioned by Gardaí in County Sligo over an overnight stabbing there.

SHANE SCULLY is the envy of soccer fans across the country after getting his hands on an FAI Cup medal.

Spot flooding has been reported in parts of the west and north-west this afternoon.

THE Western rail corridor had “a creditable performance” in spite of passenger numbers falling well short of anticipated numbers.

A FORMER high-flying banker, who once played the international currency markets, raking in a large salary and bonuses, has given it all up to join the priesthood.

A man was killed in a crash in Co. Sligo this morning.

Gardaí in Sligo are investigating an armed raid on a rural pub where one of the elderly owners was beaten by a gang of masked men.

A forensic anthropologist has told the jury in Melissa Mahon murder trial that remains found at Lough Gill in Sligo in early 2008 were of a human female aged between 14 and 16 years.

IN these straitened times I hope the Government will display courage and vision beyond the next election, specifically by investing in rail transport and in container freight in particular.

The first 12 carriages in a new €400m eco-friendly fleet of trains arrived at Dublin Port today.

Four people were killed in three separate road accidents, gardaí said today.

The plan to delay the full re-opening of the Western Rail Corridor for nine years is totally unrealistic, it was claimed tonight.

Seán McCárthaigh

THE Government is set to give the green light to the Western Rail Corridor from Ennis to Sligo after a report yesterday recommended it be re-opened on a phased basis.

The Western Rail Corridor which runs from Ennis to Sligo should be re-opened on a phased basis, a report recommended today.

A major section of a disused railway line in the West of Ireland is to be reopened, it emerged today.

Tim Collins, joint chief executive of new radio station Ocean FM, talks to David Clerkin.

Gardaí in Collooney, Co Sligo are appealing for information in tracing two missing teenagers.

IT will be political suicide for the Government if the Western Rail Corridor is not reopened, the West On Track group has warned.

KEVIN DAWSON will be defending his Credit Union Ras Mumhan title in Kerry over the Easter Weekend when the race will attract a record number of overseas riders.

A man has been killed by a train in County Sligo this evening.

THE murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells have reawakened the nightmares of an Irish family which went through similar agony to the families of the dead British children.

A man in his 70s has died in a house fire in Co Sligo.