Place: County Leitrim

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

gaa

Unpublished report proposed abolition of provincial championships

An unpublished GAA-commissioned report aimed at outlining the organisation’s future towards its 150th anniversary in 2034 proposed the removal of the provincial championships.

home and gardens

Made in Munster: Meet Cork thatcher Liam Broderick

news

Gardaí investigating Leitrim shooting incident

travel

Eight ways to travel sustainably while seeing the world

news

Tesco in Leitrim evacuated after 'bomb threat'

news

'Suspicious device' sparks security alert on Fermanagh-Leitrim border

From wife-carrying to faction-fighting: Sporting success comes in many shapes and sizes

What are the limits of the sporting world? Where does sport begin and end? The difficulties in answering those questions are manifest whenever you move beyond the mainstream that dominates the sporting media in the western world, writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 17 Nov, 2017

Court sentences man who bought car later used in drive-by shooting of NI prison officer David Black

A "trusted" IRA member who purchased in a "surreptitious manner" the car used in the murder in Northern Ireland of prison officer, David Black, has been jailed for five years.

Mon, 23 Oct, 2017

200 jobs created in medical devices firm expansion

Up to 200 jobs are being created with the expansion of a medical devices company.

Tue, 30 Aug, 2016

Modular or prefabricated housing has become the cooler, more sustainable method of creating a permanent home

Sat, 10 Oct, 2015

Gardaí seek witnesses to fatal Leitrim collision

Gardai in County Leitrim are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist in his 20s died following a collision yesterday.

Thu, 19 Mar, 2015

A graceless biopic derided at Cannes

ONE only has to go back to 2012 to find a Nicole Kidman vehicle that elicited gasps among the critics at Cannes.

Mon, 19 May, 2014

Leitrim Gardaí detain man on multi-million fraud probe

Gardaí in County Leitrim have arrested a 49-year-old man as part of a €4m investment fraud and related money laundering investigation.

Thu, 20 Feb, 2014

Second case of ash disease confirmed

A second hedgerow case of the Ash Die Back disease has been confirmed in Ireland.

Tue, 29 Oct, 2013

Fatal road collision in Co Leitrim

A man has died following a fatal road traffic collision in County Leitrim.

Tue, 23 Jul, 2013

Knot tightens on dickie bow

I was as proud as punch a month ago, when the famed bard of Mologga, in Mitchelstown, asked me to be the weekend MC for the Mitchelstown Literary Festival, which opens in the town this Friday evening.

Thu, 18 Jul, 2013

Leitrim: Flavour fusion at The Cottage

The Cottage, Jamestown, Co Leitrim; tel: 071-9625933; cottagerestaurant.ie

Sun, 12 May, 2013

HIQA finds 'do not resuscitate' orders in nursing home files

An inspection carried out into a private nursing home in County Leitrim has found that "do not resuscitate" orders were on the files of some patients at the home.

Thu, 24 Jan, 2013

Bruton: Some interest in buying MBNA facility in Leitrim

The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has said there have been some "positive expressions of interest" in the MBNA credit card facility in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim.

Fri, 23 Sep, 2011

Virgin Money 'interested' in MBNA's credit card operation

It has been reported today that Virgin Money has expressed an interest in MBNA's credit card business in Carrick-on-Shannon.

Tue, 23 Aug, 2011

Sulwaan’s late surge too much for his rivals

ALTHOUGH virtually ignored in the market, the Ruby Walsh ridden Sulwaan made a successful debut for Dermot Weld when proving too strong for Tavern Times and Princeton Plains in the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle in Sligo yesterday.

Mon, 11 Jul, 2011

Man arrested in Leitrim over North shooting

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in County Leitrim in connection with a ambush on police in the North.

Sun, 22 Nov, 2009

GAA appoint McGill as Operations Manager

The GAA have released a statement confirming the appointment of Feargal McGill as the Association's Operations Manager.

Tue, 23 Sep, 2008

Two motorcyclists killed in Co Kerry crash

Two motorcyclists have died in serious crash in County Kerry this evening.

Sun, 01 Jun, 2008

Drive to bring jobs to Leitrim

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

Sun, 11 Nov, 2007

McGahern's death prompts sharp rise in book sales

The sales of books by writer John McGahern have increased significantly since his death, it emerged today.

Fri, 07 Apr, 2006

Post mortem to be carried out on body found in Co Leitrim

A post-mortem is due to be carried out today on human remains found in County Leitrim yesterday afternoon.

Sat, 18 Mar, 2006

Connacht launch academy

Connacht Rugby have officially luanched their new academy with the contracting of six players to the elite player development programme where it is hoped over the next three years they will develop into full time professionals with Connacht Rugby.

Thu, 02 Dec, 2004

5,800 students make history with first State exam in religion

ALMOST 5,800 teenagers became the first students to sit a State exam in religion yesterday morning.

Thu, 19 Jun, 2003

Teagasc announces closure of centres

Teagasc is to close ten of its centres and its dairy farm at Ballinamore, County Leitrim.

Wed, 05 Mar, 2003

Two more Senate seats taken

Two seats remain on the cultural and educational panel in the new Seanad.

Tue, 16 Jul, 2002

New age traveller murder trial suddenly adjourned

The trial of two men charged with the murder of a new age traveller in County Leitrim in 1998 has been adjourned to tomorrow for reasons the trial judge said were out of his hands.

Thu, 27 Jun, 2002

Alleged rape victim denies setting man alight

The alleged victim of an attempted rape has denied she doused a hitchhiker with petrol and tried to set him alight because he failed to live up to the image of "the amorous, randy Irishman".

Thu, 18 Apr, 2002

Post mortem due on Leitrim body

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of the man whose partially-decomposed remains were discovered on wooded land near Ballinamore in County Leitrim yesterday.

Tue, 05 Jun, 2001