North West Today

Tributes continue for the late architect and TV personality, Hugh Wallace - he described Sligo as a fabulous city and potential tourism hot spot during his involvement in a local housing development, while he spoke at a Leitrim County Council event earlier this year to promote transforming vacant and derelict homes in the county

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Rotting walls, collapsing roofs, no electricity, smelly toilets, - some of the ongoing issues with the condition of the current premises of Gaelscoil Chnoc na Ré in Sligo. Príhomhoide Mícheál Ó Broin and Board Chairperson Bartley Ó Gabháin express frustration with the promised delivery of a new school

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This week's Friday Panel discuss road safety and speed vans, a United Ireland, this week's Government infrastructure investment, the increase in cost of living, the loss of Borough and Town Councils and Ireland's chances of qualifying for the World Cup. Guests are Noel Kennedy, Secretary of the Sligo-Leitrim District soccer league and former councillor and historian Brian Scanlon

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Over 400 people attended a public meeting in Rathcormac in North Sligo earlier this year to express their concerns at the dangers of the N15 road in Co Sligo and call for action to make the road safer. The road has been included for work in the latest revised National Development Plan - campaigner Elizabeth McSharry gives her reaction

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Earlier this year, Tommy Banks erected two roadside signs on the N17 road in Co Sligo indication that 27 people had been killed on that 25km stretch of road in recent years. He's been giving his reaction to the news that the upgrading of the road has been included in the revised National Development Plan

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The Mayor of Donegal Town, Anna Gallagher, has outlined her hope to make the town dementia-friendly and has been working with Alzheimer's Ireland to make changes to bring this about. She's been outlining some of what she has been involved him since her election to the honorary position last March

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Junior Ministers Marian Harkin and Frank Feighan insist balanced regional development will be achieved by the delivery of the numerous infrastructure projects for the North West contained in the updated National Development Plan. It includes upgrading of the N17 Collooney to Knock road, development work on Sligo's Eastern Bridge and a Carrick on Shannon bypass

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It's the 20th anniversary of the death of soccer legend George Best, at the age of just 59. Former editor with the Sligo Champion Jim Gray recalls a night out with Best at a pub in Kilkenny and how he ended up taking home the wine glass from which he was drinking

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A Donegal-based driving instructor says she believes driver behaviour on the roads has become much worse in recent months, based on her experience. Diane Harvey of D's School of Motoring says drivers act more angrily, impatiently, and are breaking rules of the road on a regular basis

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Wild deer are encroaching in increasing numbers near the home of Paula Gilvarry and her husband and she says a humane cull is neeed to control their population. They own a farm in Co Sligo and there are increasing issues with deer rutting and digging up their land, and says these deer remain a danger to motorists

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