A musician in Co Donegal lived on Inishfree for around 20 years up to recently.

The subject of what constitutes an island cropped on this page a few week’s ago in reference to the minute Flea Island in West Cork.

Now that singer Mark Feehily has moved back to his native Sligo, he can enjoy his mum’s home cooking.

Jack McGowan used to train at night for fear of being thought mad, writes Feidhlim Kelly.

Castlegregory, Kerry €300,000

An inquest has heard of the desperate attempts to keep a teenage girl in the protective care of the HSE shortly before she was killed.

ONE OF the upsides to the downturn is the fact that Irish hotels and holiday homes have got a lot more competitive for families.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed Sligo man Ronnie McManus's appeal against his conviction for the manslaughter of a 14-year-old girl.

AROUND the fairyland beauty of Dooney Lake in Sligo on Sunday morning the elemental black and white flags were rippling and blossoming with hope that the dream would come true for the county’s footballers.

Classmates of murdered teenager Melissa Mahon formed a guard of honour at her funeral in Sligo today.

Murdered Sligo teenager Melissa Mahon is due to be laid to rest today.

CHILD-KILLER Ronnie Dunbar has begun a life sentence for the manslaughter of Melissa Mahon in what a judge described as an “appalling breach of trust” by the 44-year-old father of three.

Dan Buckley looks at the events leading up to the killing of Melissa Mahon.

The man who killed 14-year-old Melissa Mahon has been jailed for life by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court.

Mr Justice Barry White today described the victim impact statement of Melissa Mahon’s family as “disingenuous in the extreme”.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is to review the case of 14-year-old Melissa Mahon following the conviction of a 44-year-old Sligo man for her manslaughter.

A 44 year-old Sligo man has been found not guilty of the murder of 14 year-old Melissa Mahon, but guilty of her manslaughter.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial was today sent home for a second evening after failing to reach a verdict.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial has been sent home for the evening following two and a half hours of deliberation.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering Melissa Mahon has now heard all prosecution evidence in the case.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial has heard that there was contact between the accused's mobile phone and the girl's mobile on the day she went missing from the care of the Health Service Executive.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial has heard that when interviewed Ronald McManus told gardaí “I’ve been waiting some time for this”.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial has heard from the accused man’s former fiancé that early in their relationship he told her that she would hear rumours that he had had a relationship with Melissa.

The jury in the trial of the Sligo man accused of killing 14-year-old Melissa Mahon has heard that the accused man's daughters were always in his company.

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.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering 14-year-old Melissa Mahon has heard from another Sligo man who denies that he had a relationship with the girl.

The jury in the trial of a Sligo man accused of murdering 14-year-old Melissa Mahon has heard that a jawbone and teeth found on the shore of a lake were belonged to the girl.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering 14-year-old Melissa Mahon has heard that a hypodermic syringe and a bottle marked 'caustic soda' were found in his house following his arrest.

The jury in the trial of the Sligo man accused of murdering 14 year-old Melissa Mahon has heard that she took a pregnancy test which was positive before she went missing.

The youngest daughter of the Sligo man accused of murdering 14-year-old Melissa Mahon has told a jury that she gave a number of different accounts of the killing because she was brainwashed by the accused and was trying to protect him.

A daughter of the Sligo man accused of killing 14 year-old Melissa Mahon has told the Central Criminal Court that her sister told her that their father killed the girl.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial has been shown photographs of human remains found on the shore of Lough Gill in Sligo.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Sligo has heard her described by a social worker as very vulnerable and fragile.

A jury has heard that the Health Service Executive obtained a court order to prevent the man accused of murdering 14-year-old Melissa Mahon from having access to her in the days leading up to her disappearance.

The jury in the trial of a Sligo man accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl has been told that it will hear from the accused man’s daughter that she saw him tie the schoolgirl’s body up in a sleeping bag and throw it in a river.

A 43-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested by gardaí investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl in Sligo.

A 43-year-old man was arrested today by gardaí investigating the disappearance of a Sligo teenager more than 18 months ago.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) yesterday led a huge operation against a suspected organised crime gang in the north-west.

GARDA divers searching for missing Sligo teenager Melissa Mahon have found skeletal remains in a Sligo lake.

Human remains were today pulled from a lough in Co Sligo.

Sebastien Loeb capitalised fully on Marcus Gronholm's error as he seized control of the World Rally Championship title race in Rally Ireland today.

A 24-year-old man died in a drowning accident near Sligo town earlier today.

Details have been announced of this year's Rally Ireland, to take place in the north west on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16.