Ocean FM News Reports

The plans by a new school in Co Limerick to install three gender neutral toilets has been condemned as beyond common sense, and not in the best interests of students. Eamon Fitzpatrick from Sligo, who was previously employed in the education sector, also claims that parents should be fully consulted before such decisions are taken

New legislation introduced last night by Minister Shane Ross to further protect cyclists has been welcomed by Joan Swift of the Sligo Cycling Campaign. And she has been reacting comments from listeners that cyclists too need to penalised for continuing to flout the rules of the road

Angry residents of Cartron Estate are demanding that two councillors who allegedly claimed that residents had drawn up a petition, objecting to the housing of a traveller family there, be identified. Bernadette Maughan of Sligo Traveller Support group insists she stands by her weekend comments on the matter, based on what she was told by the councillors

Sligo Sinn Fein councillor, Thomas Healy, became emotional on the North West Today show, while condemning weekend vandalism at the public playground in Collooney. A founding member of the Collooney Re-Development Committee, Cllr Healy made an impassioned plea for such incidents to cease

There's been yet another accident on the notorious stretch of road at Lennox's Bridge, between Kinlough and Bundoran. A car overturned on the bridge in the early hours of Thursday morning, forcing its closure yet again. Local resident Diarmuid Doherty says there's an urgency to have it upgraded

A furious row has broken out between residents of Cartron Estate in Sligo and traveller community representatives over claims that a petition was drawn up to oppose a member of the travelling community being allocated a house there. The residents insist no such petition exists, while Bernadette Maughan of the Sligo Traveller Support group claims one local councillor informed her of the petition

Nessa Cosgrove has been selected as the Labour Party candidate to contest the next General Election in Sligo-Leitrim, She stood as a candidate in the local elections in County Sligo in May

In this Sunday’s Arts House at 8pm, Matthew Seaver, assistant keeper at the Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland in Kildare Street in Dublin, tells us about four large gold rings found some time ago in County Donegal; they are known as the Tullydonnell hoard.

‘Run’ is the Irish word for secret. And there’s a secret in a postcard art exhibition and sale that will open on December 3rd in the Hyde Bridge Gallery and home of the Yeats Society in Sligo town. Submissions for the exhibition and now being sought. Yeats Society Sligo Director Susan O Keeffe has been telling us all it.

This Monday, Nov. 11th, at noon is the deadline for entering a competition that recognises creative industries in Donegal. Head of Enterprise in the county Michael Tunney tells us about that.

Plus arts news and music.

On this week’s Friday Panel, Fr Pat Lombard, Peigin Doyle and Finbarr Filan who comtemplate issues such as Gay Byrne’s legacy, the new 4 euro transport charge levied by the HSE, the coffee cup tax, and the sacred site that is Queen Maeve’s cairn

Donegal's Frank McGlynn has called time on his intercounty football career. He explains the reasons why. Sligo Rovers Hall of Fame inductee Chris Rutherford reflects on his football journey from Merseyside to Cedar Drive - and a beginners guide to WWE from two wrestling-mad Sligo fans!