Ocean Drive Collie On Movies,Cops & Robbers May 7th by OceanFM Ireland

This week:

(3min 25) Gerry Moore from the Sligo Park Hotel on his plans to reopen.

(10mins) Bernie Meehan from Bernies Beauty Salon is anxious to get clarification from the Government about the beauty industry.

(14min 10) Rachel Farrell on her page Sligo is Open.

(18min 40) Solicitor Eamonn Creed urges listeners to attend to their Wills in this time of crisis.

The Sligo Ageing Well Home Exercise Programme in association with Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership, Sligo County Council and the HSE kicked off this week on The Francie Boylan Show.

You can listen below to the first 3 exercises or watch the video here https://bit.ly/3b9VgAA

On Tuesday, Edel Brennan, HSE Senior Physiotherapist, went through a warm up and the first exercise and then on Thursday Shane Hayes from Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership went through the remaining two.

Bundoran and Strandhill are likely to be the two worst affected areas in the entire country economically, as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. That's according to a report drawn up by the Three Regional Assembles of Ireland, which also predicts almost 5,000 businesses will be severely impacted in Counties Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo

Sligo hairdresser, Marian Dineen, has described the emotion involved in having to shut her business during the Covid-19 restrictions. She says people are distraught at not being able to get their hair done, and that she misses her customers, her staff and the company she has at work

'Connecting People and Nature' is Sligo County Council's new biodiversity campaign, which is ongoing for the month of May. Siobhan Ryan, Heritage Officer with the Council and Karen Kennedy, Water and Communities Officer with the Local Authority Water and Community Office are the guests on North West Today to outline more

Management of the Yeats Village student accommodation complex in Sligo has ruled out a refund of rent to students who left their rented property due to Covid-19. The mother of one female student of IT Sligo is among many who has raised the issue and has called for Ministerial intervention in the matter

Tattoos with the word 'Eire', and the images of a shamrock and daggers are seen as key in a new bid to identify the body of a man washed up at Tullaghan Strand in North Leitrim in May, 1986. As the Garda Missing Persons Bureau launches an appeal, well known journalist and author, Barry Cummins, has become directly involved and is hopeful the man can be identified, even 34 years on

Sligo publican, Enda Scanlon, has put forward the case for the earlier re-opening of pubs, ahead of the planned 10th August date under the Government roadmap plan. However he says only a minority of pubs will be able to do so under the strict social distancing regulations and it would be financially viable for many

Leitrim Sinn Fein councillor, Brendan Barry, has dismissed claims that he engaged in reckless driving behaviour after participating in a Leitrim County Council video conference call yesterday. Cllr Barry was travelling to Dublin at the time of the meeting to bring a relative to a hospital appointment, and insists he was listening to, and not watching, council proceedings