Men joined up and fought in World War I, also known as the Great War, for all kinds of reasons; some fought for the Empire, some fought for Ireland, some fought for the Catholic Church and others ...

A Sligo takeaway was ordered shut for two weeks by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. It was revealed that two workers hadn’t received training in food hygiene and weren’t aware of the need ...

Margaret Connolly Bree and Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council, Cllr. Declan Bree with the Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland Dr Wahba Abdalmajid. Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council ...

A somewhat stagnant Sligo Rovers suffered the opening night blues as Waterford came away with the points following an action packed game at the Showgrounds. The visitors won this game by the odd ...

I am just so proud of it.' Anna's favourite part of Ireland is Sligo - a three-hour drive from her hometown of Wicklow, which is just south of Dublin on the east coast. She adds: 'I always say ...

Sligo’s poet W. B. Yeats died on January 28th 1939, two days before Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech. The fascist rhetoric of the dictator’s speech on the annihilation of the Jews tragically ...

“Storm Éowyn is set to be one of the most severe storms Ireland has seen," Keith Leonard ... A Status Red wind warning for Cos Leitrim, Mayo, and Sligo is valid from 4 am to 12 pm on Friday.

Artist Linda Fährlin from Sligo has been shortlisted for this year’s KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. RTÉ broadcaster Rick O’Shea announced the ten shortlisted titles at a ceremony in the ...

By Claire Moses Reporting from London Hundreds of thousands of customers in Ireland were without power and more than 100,000 were without water on Friday, as a powerful storm moved across the ...

A man was fatally injured when a tree fell on his car in County Donegal, in the northwest of Ireland, police said. Schools were forced to close and public transport ground to a halt. Officials had ...

Micheál Martin became Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) for the second time in his political career on Thursday, a day later than planned. The Irish parliament descended into uproar on ...