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sligo / anti-capitalism / press release Friday March 19, 2010 00:05 by Dungloe and proud
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éirígí attack Fianna Fáil TD in relation to the giveaway of the states natural resources and the Deputies financial interest in Shell read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous / press release Monday November 16, 2009 20:35 by North West Red
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Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council Gerry Murray to hold a civic reception tomorrow for the former DUP leader Ian Paisley in Tubbercurry, County Sligo read full story / add a comment 
sligo / environment / news report Wednesday November 11, 2009 00:55 by Aisling Ryan
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Sligo's elected representatives have ignored the majority of public opinion and have voted to reopen O'Connell Street to traffic. What can we do?? read full story / add a comment
sligo / workers issues / opinion/analysis Monday November 09, 2009 21:08 by North West Red
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Sligo's demonstration was one of a series of marches organised on both sides of the border by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to campaign against cutbacks in pay and essential public services being imposed by both the Dublin and Stormont administrations. read full story / add a comment
sligo / eu / press release Tuesday June 23, 2009 20:42 by Sligo leftie
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Sligo éirígí activist Gerry Casey has condemned the decision by Brian Cowen’s administration to hold a re-run of the Lisbon Treaty referendum, which was democratically rejected last year. read full story / add a comment
sligo / elections / opinion/analysis Monday June 15, 2009 19:52 by Ray
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Labour Councillor Jim Mc Garry has been elected as Mayor of Sligo at the Council AGM this afternoon. The voting alliance between Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour which elected Cllr Mc Garry was harsly criticised at this afternoon’s meeting of Sligo Borough Council. After all the speculation, there will be no left-wing alliance on the Council, despite the fact that seven of the 12 councillors elected onto the new council are from left-wing parties. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights and freedoms / news report Sunday April 19, 2009 20:54 by Allen
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The presence of plainclothes Gardai in an unmarked car in the vicinity of a 1916 Commemoration in Sligo where two former Labour Party Mayors, Cllr. Declan Bree (Sligo Borough Council) & Cllr. Catherine Connolly (Galway City Council), held a ceremony has been described as "sinister and disturbing." read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights and freedoms / press release Friday April 10, 2009 01:23 by Killian McLoughlin
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This is a copy of the press release sent out regarding the 'Save Sligos Cancer Services' (SCSS). The group are organising a huge protest in Sligo this good friday, they are marching on Sligo General and demanding that the management choose whether they are going to represent the people of the Northwest or the private interests and agenda of Mary Harney and the HSE. The SCSS have stated that their memmbers are sick and tired of teh duplicity and lies of both the management in Sligo and the HSE and are no longer willing to accept it. The people of the northwest are taking back their health services, starting with Sligo General Hospittal, this Good Friday 10/04/2009 read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights and freedoms / news report Friday February 20, 2009 20:36 by robert
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Pat O’Donnell and Maura Harrington addressed a public meeting in Sligo on Thurday evening. They gave an inspiring presentation of a campaign that even after ten years of intense struggle could not be broken. read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous / news report Friday November 28, 2008 22:23 by Ray
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In a new twist in the ongoing dispute between members and officials of Sligo Borough Council, that has resulted in no borough council meeting having been held for four weeks. It has emerged that more than ten staff have lodged formal complaints with management alleging bullying and harassment by a member of the council. read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous / news report Thursday November 13, 2008 22:48 by Ray
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DECISION making in local government in Sligo town is suspended indefinitely at the moment as the fallout from last week’s walkout by staff from a borough council meeting continues, prompting the question: IS ANYONE RUNNING THE TOWN RIGHT NOW? read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights and freedoms / news report Wednesday May 28, 2008 22:48 by Kate O' Hara
This is an article about what life is like for refugee children living in a direct provision centre in Sligo. It highlights parents' fears about the sexualisation of their children because they are witness to adults having sex under the cramped conditions of the centre. read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous / news report Thursday May 22, 2008 11:41 by Sligoboy
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After a heated debate in the Dail the Government won the vote on the retention of Cancer services in the North-West. The result will see all cancer services bar some recovery units move from Sligo General Hospital and Mayo to the Governments proposed Center of Excellence in Galway. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights and freedoms / news report Wednesday May 21, 2008 11:18 by Kerry researcher
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A woman who threatened a sit-in until she was given a hospital bed for a vital cancer operation died yesterday. read full story / add a comment
sligo / environment / news report Monday March 24, 2008 11:38 by Rayo
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PEOPLE in Sligo must put pressure on local representatives to keep the Racecourse site at Cleveragh a green area, says Deputy Mayor and Independant Socialist Cllr Declan Bree. read full story / add a comment
sligo / elections / news report Wednesday June 20, 2007 19:03 by Jake E Lee
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Former Labour Cllr Declan Bree has continued with supporting the Labour/FF pact on Sligo Borough and County Council despite leaving the Labour party recently read full story / add a comment
sligo / workers issues / news report Monday May 07, 2007 15:21 by Harry Pearse
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The latest news from Sligo and the North West is that the Rabbitte wing of Labour/SIPTU is trying to prepare a case to justify expelling Declan Bree from SIPTU. read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday April 06, 2007 13:15 by Union member
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Sligo Borough Council voted down a motion condemning the governments policy which will tax aid speculators to build a private hospital on public land beside Sligo General Hospital. This is the first Council to endorse what amounts to the beginning of the privatisation of the Health Service. read full story / add a comment
sligo / elections / news report Tuesday April 03, 2007 13:06 by Paul Walsh
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Sligo Weekender release opinion poll for the Sligo - Leitrim north constituency which shows SF winning the third seat read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Saturday March 31, 2007 16:45 by B Scanlon
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The house that countess Markievicz was born in now has exhibition in her honour. This woman born into wealth gave her live to Ireland and its poor. Bertie Ahern kicked the show of on Friday for his friend the owner Eddie Walsh the very man who had closed of rights of way on the estate to the people of the area read full story / add a comment |
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