Triple national rally champion Niall Maguire has conquered the Sligo Rally on several occasions — as has his son Shane, who won last year — yet it has been nine years since Maguire Snr’s last triumph and, indeed, his last national victory.

CHRIS PATTERSON (41) will be the new partner for Norwegian driver Petter Solberg in the World Rally Championship. Early last month, Phil Mills, Solberg’s regular co-driver, stepped down from his role with the flamboyant Norwegian, who has 152 WRC starts including 13 wins and one world title.

THE Irish crew of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle have been stripped of their victory in last week’s Rally of Scotland.

THE Alumni Association at Sligo Institute of Technology is holding its annual summer reunion on Friday, June 9, in the Sligo Park Hotel.

Angry gardaí across the Northwest of the country have vowed not to tolerate the creation of a volunteer reserve force, it emerged today.

GARDAÍ will begin organising their opposition to plans for a Garda Reserve at the first of a series of protest meetings next week.

Gardaí are to begin a nationwide protest against the introduction of a Garda reserve force.

The Sligo County Board are to discuss the possibility of appointing a commercial manager at their next monthly meeting.

Sligo GAA Secretary Tommy Kilcoyne will wade in behind the Yeats county's "young talent" in his address to the Sligo GAA convention on Monday night.

A former Sligo garda said today he was suspicious that a senior officer was involved in the “setting up” of a false death threat claim following the arrest of the man who had made the allegations.

The wind energy sector could supply over a million Irish homes with electricity and has the potential to be a 1 billion annual industry in the next seven years.

IT looks like there’ll be no smoke and no fire at Fianna Fáil’s pow-wow in Sligo tomorrow as the party’s chief anti-smoking ban braves will be on distant plains.

SLIGO All-Star Eamon O’Hara says manager Peter Ford, who resigned as team boss yesterday, cannot be held to blame for the county’s disappointing showing in this year’s Bank of Ireland Football Championship.