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Getting it wrong on O’Connell St.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
AN international tourism advice website called GotSaga published a glowing report on Sligo last week.
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Sligo has two ‘cities’
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
We hadn’t realised until last week that County Sligo has two “cities”.
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This man could give you a grilling
could give you a grilling
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
THIS week we came across yet another of those people with apt names for their jobs.
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Okay, how do you open a road that is already open?
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
THE phrase closing the stable door after the horse has bolted is pretty well worn by now.
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Airport skit flies far from reality
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
DUBLIN comedian Ian Coppinger is putting the name of Sligo airport to international audiences, but unfortunately not in a complimentary way.
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Hold the front page we have “dependable” weather
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
IN the highly competitive world of the media, it seems that good old Ocean FM have come up with what sales and marketing heads would describe as a unique selling point.
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Army occupies neighbouring county
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
“ARMY to stay in Leitrim until the end of the week”. A visitor to the area listening to the lunchtime news headlines on Ocean Fm last Tuesday might have been forgiven for thinking that they had landed in the middle of a war zone.
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10 potential Sellafields
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
BRITISH nuclear mandarins, Al Queada terrorists and all other types of terrorists have been warned as a west Sligo Independent councillor is keeping a watchful eye on all of you.
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Low tech back to basics
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
ANYONE driving the road from Ballyshannon to Sligo and continuing out the Dublin road will probably have noticed a series of little wooden signs dotted along the road pointing the way to a wedding reception in Cromleach Lodge near Castlebaldwin. The appear at junctions and roundabouts, indicating that the guests should go straight on.
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It’s not ‘fare’, is it?
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
WHILE there have been complaints previously about the fact that train fares on the Sligo-Dublin line increase at the weekends, we hadn’t been aware of how badly Sligo commuters are treated compared to their counterparts near Dublin.
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Farmers take the shirts off their back for charity
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
MANY farmers would probably tell you that between government cutbacks and poor prices they have been left with hardly the shirt on their backs.
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Sligo’s a backwards place
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
WHEN you see something starting “I’d been warned that Sligo was a backwards place but . . .” you generally expect that it’s not going to be very complimentary.
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Other Sligos getting wet too
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
IF you think showers in this part of the world are torrential, spare a thought for the poor people in another town called Sligo, in the state of Louisiana.
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Switch on the lights
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
IT’S time to switch on the lights. Despite the manifestations of Christmas now appearing we are not talking about the festive lights but rather car lights.
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Getting value for money
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
THERE is an old joke about politicians spending the same money three times. They first announce that a grant is being allocated for a project, then they announce that it is going to be paid and finally they announce that it has been paid.
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Are things not bad enough?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
AS IF it is not bad enough having to pay tax here one of our reporters got an email last week purporting to be from “HM Revenue and Customs” and claiming that he owed income tax in the UK.
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A good start to the day
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
YOU can sometimes tell what kind of a day it will be within the first few moments of waking, but for one Sligo Weekender scribe, the bright point of his morning came when he parked in Stephen Street Car Park.
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Champions are beauticians, stuntmen and tree huggers
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
SOME purists are still shaking their heads regarding the recent Sligo GAA county final, fuming that they couldn't file the meeting of arch-rivals Eastern Harps and Tourlestrane under the heading 'The Best You Ever Saw'.
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We ‘feel’ this is wrong
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
THE 1911 Census is now available online. It is a fantastic resource that reproduces the actual census forms filled out by people at the time. It is a mine of information.
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Is Sligo a teaching hospital?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
LOOKING at the Rate My Hospital survey on the Irishhealth.com website we came across this rather strange comment on Sligo General Hospital, which we’re quite sure if it is a compliment or not:
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Prepared to pay the price for pets
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
We get some odd statistics arriving in our e-mail during a working week, and we’re not even talking about the satisfaction rates for for penis enlargement medications, but one of the strangest came from Pedigree and Whiskas, the dog and cat food brands.
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Souped-up health stats
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
THE person who designed the Health Stats programme under which the performance of hospitals in this country is assessed must be a bit of a petrolhead.
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In Mayo the "pin" is always mightier than the sword
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
REMEMBER all that jazz about the letter I before E except after C. Well the first part of this adage certainly applies in the grand old county of Mayo and parts of west Sligo.
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Calling a spade a . . .
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
THOSE of you in the habit of calling a spade something else, such as a soil extraction implement or a manual excavation device, would probably have copped it straight away. But it was only as we read on that we realised what they were talking about.
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Beware of email scams
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
ONLINE scams are an ongoing problem but we seemed to have got a lot of emails here in the past week claiming to be from financial institutions.
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Let’s all drink to swine flu
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
&FEELING like you might have swine flu? Thinking of heading to your GP? Why bother. Just take a leaf out of the Russian football association’s book.
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Equine punchline
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
SEE IF you can figure out the punchline from the story below, before the final sentence.
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Fast food: The ‘Ferrari’ that once was a bread van
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
TWO friends have crossed a Citroen 2CV with a Ferrari - and produced a bread van which can travel at 180mph. The result is a vehicle that can go from 0 to 60mph in less than five seconds.
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Marketing: Boy, is that one tough life
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
WE don’t know . . . sometimes marketing people in Ireland have the easiest jobs in the world.
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Town clerk leaves city hall
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
THE retirement of town clerk John McNabola ends one of Sligo’s great anomalies. John’s departure also sees the end of the title of town clerk, in line with recent local government legislation.
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Knock warms up
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
IRELAND West airport in Knock has the distinction - if that’s the word - of being on average the coldest place in Ireland.
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Never insult our Sligo footballers
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
IT SEEMS our neighbours to the West, in County Mayo, are suffering an inferiority complex about the Yeats County.
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Cast a cold eye on rivals, on defeat . . . this horse passes by
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
YEATS was back in the news last week - not the poet, but the eight-year-old flat-racing horse which won the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot for an unprecedented fourth straight year.
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Commitment figures that are sure to impress your boss
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
HERE’S a little something someone sent Bits & Pieces that is indisputable mathematical logic. It also made us all laugh out very loud - which is why we’ve included our Reasons To Be Cheerful logo here!
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Candidate ‘exposes’ comic side
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
THE election posters which have blighted the roadsides for the last couple of months will be a thing of the past now that the election is over, but at least one poster could be sorely missed.
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It’s enough to make you go blue with rage
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
OUR Rosses Point correspondent Albert Bree noticed a worrying trend among car users in Sligo . . . and he’s got the pictures to prove it.
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Polite name for it!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
WE noticed in one of the planning notices in last week’s Weekender that someone came up with a much more polite name for a dungheap. They called it a “horse waste storage area”.
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Don’t you just love politics!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
WHATEVER one’s political views, Bits & Pieces believes it’s always refreshing to see someone in politics make a decision based on principles.
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The Devil’s in the detail on our highest summit
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
YOU think we’ve got problems on the pathway up to the top of Knocknarea (loose stones, people climbing onto Queen Maeve’s cairn on the summit etc?).
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Will Ryanair be targeting Japanese sumo market?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
RYANAIR has decided it s going to live off the fat of the land by charging overweight customers an extra fee. Which begs the obvious Bits & Pieces question:, will the Irish-based airline be eyeing up the potenitally lucrative Japanese sumo wrestling airline market?
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‘Other planet’ teachers want 10% rise
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
TEACHERS in the UK were accused of “living on another planet” after demanding a 10% pay increase
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Holidays: Is it worth the mental effort?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
IT wasn’t something that we had ever thought of and it seems pretty straightforward but if you were asked to define tourism what would you say.
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It’s Baghdad ...but not exactly how we know it!
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
WHEN one of our reporters saw an outdoor advert at the Dunnes Stores car park in Adelaide Street in Sligo - and particularly its position beside an ad for holidays in Turkey - he thought: surely this can’t be trying to entice people to go to Baghdad on their holidays?
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Will he Leno this lesson?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
LASTweek this column dubbed Barack Obama ‘The Teleprompter Kid’ because he always seems to use the device (known as an autocue over here) whenever he gets the chance.
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Biffo rediscovers his SOH in the White House
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
THE Teleprompter Kid - aka President Barack Obama - spoke about his ancestral links to Co. Offaly and his ambition to visit Ireland as he hosted a St Patrick’s Day reception for the Taoiseach.
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Shamrocks and shenanigans in San Francisco
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
THIS outstandingly woolly picture came in to us from a Sligo band doing well across the Atlantic. The Hooks left Ireland for San Fransisco a few years back and since then they have established themselves on the ‘San Fran’ live music scene.
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Oh no (line), it’s Bono again
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
IS it us, or are you as underwhelmed by U2 and their latest album as we are at Bits & Pieces HQ?
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Why men don’t write advice columns . . .
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Dear Ted,
I hope you can help me here. The other day I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't gone more than a mile down the road when my engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt.
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‘Fun’ trip to Sligo that wasn’t
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
A WRITER for the UK Independent newspaper found a recent trip to County Sligo beset by problems, thankfully none of them on this side of the Irish Sea.
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Don’t Believe A Word? Sligo Rovers’ Cook is back in town . . .
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Guess who just got back today?
That ‘calm down’ boy who had been away (for 3 weeks)
Haven’t changed haven’t much to say
But man, he still thinks the Bit O’Red are great
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Church Hill’s gone west
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
LAST year the Weekender highlighted how Sligo Borough Council had put up an incorrect “Gallows Hill” street name sign at St Joseph’s Terrace.
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So that’s how they do it
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
DID you notice (silly question really; no-one could have missed them!) all the banners around the centre of Sligo in the runup to and over the duration of Rally Ireland?
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Kilkenny is jealous of Sligo buses
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
A LETTER in the Kilkenny People newspaper last week suggested that the Marble City take a leaf out of Sligo’s book.
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To Google or not to Google?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
HAVE you ever thought how many times a day you ‘Google?’
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Irish people in the UK don’t like what they’re hearing
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
THE excellent paper The Irish Post may not be that familiar to readers . . . And that’s because it’s published in the UK.
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Healthy surfer practices what he preaches
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Sligo Weekender health columnist Gabriel MacSharry was among a number of wave surfers to make use of the exceptionally high tides over the Christmas break, though probably few made it look like ballet on waves!
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Six growth careers offering big money
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
WANT a career change for the New Year? According to yahoo.com, here are six of the best professions to be in as 2009 kicks off:
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’It’s so invisible you can’t see it’: The howlers we love
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
COLEMANBALLS is a term coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye (a bit like Phoenix only better) to describe verbal gaffes perpetrated by (usually British) commentators, and comes from the is surname of the now retired (and legendary!) BBC broadcaster David Coleman.
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BAB? You must be a little bit 404
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
THE big question for textperts this week is this: Are you 404 about the new mobile phone shorthand?
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Maybe it’ll soon be goodbye to the Sayonara Bank, too
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
WHILE other publications bring you dry and stodgy updates on the current bank crisis, the Bits & Pieces financial team is first with the (offbeat) news from the markets.
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Lookalikes: Sligo barman and the Hollywood actor
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
HAS anyone noticed the startling resemblance between Alan O’Reilly, the popular barman at the Leitrim Bar in Sligo, and John Travolta, the Hollywood acting superstar.
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Caption contest: Get your bird brains in gear
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
SLIGO-North Leitrim Deputy Dr Jimmy Devins has first-hand experience of the predatory world of Irish politics, but he ran into a real-life predator in the form of this bald eagle from the Eagles Flying Irish Raptor Research Centre in Riverstown.
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At last, Knock finally has its place in the sun
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
GENERALLY when Ireland West Airport in Knock features in the monthly weather reports from Met Eireann it is because of bad weather.
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PR = Prioritised Removal, not public relations
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
AS we report on page 8 this week, Sligo recently hosted a global gathering with more than 70 people from 43 different countries.
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The art that should be kept in a dusty gallery
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
WHAT do you do when you find a dirty car? (a) Write ‘WASH ME?’
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Revealed: What Westlife’s Shane paid for a shirt
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
IF you happen to see Westlife’s Shane Filan out and about around Sligo wearing a Padraic Harrington shirt, then we can explain the story behind it.
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The end of the ‘high life’ draws one step nearer
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
OUR Rosses Point correspondent Albert Bree captured this shot of workmen dismantling the high crane as work on the apartments at Swan Point (behind The Glasshouse Hotel) nears completion.
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Radio people have trouble with time and distance
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
WELCOME to the Pedantic Section of this week’s Bits & Pieces.
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Now that IS generosity!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
WORLDWIDE TV viewers may still be weighing up who came off best in the concluding US presidential debate last week, but Irish bookmaker Paddy Power had no doubt, deciding to pay out early on Barack Obama becoming president.
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The moment Rosaleen had a ruff radio experience
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
A FUNNY thing happened during a live radio broadcast on Ocean FM last week.
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The credit crunch: A key question needs answering
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Bolting the stable door - Part I:
Green Party TD Paul Gogarty’s bitter Dail comments about bankers being “scum” were all over the radio stations last week. Here’s what he had to say:
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We’re in recession, but that’s no reason not to have a chuckle
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
THIS Thursday is All-Ireland poetry day, with poetry readings in every county in Ireland to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Poetry Ireland.
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Cryptic Connolly message on this sign
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
IT SEEMS that all roads can sometimes lead to the court of justice.
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Here’s one office chair the staff won’t be fighting over…
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
THINGS are getting tough in the world of business, as these photos from cyberspace reveal.
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Put a little Cowen on your CD player
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
DOES Brian Cowen seem stressed to you? His brow seems even more furrowed than usual since he took the highest office in the land.
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And you thought it was bad in this country?
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
CAN you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following statistics?
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Boiling down the water issue
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
“WHAT it boils down to is, I am a borough councillor and all the water issues are taken care of by the Sligo County Council.”
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Bog story travels to NYC
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
OLDER readers may remember a time when many provincial papers in Ireland would occasionally add the line “American papers please copy” to the end of death notices.
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Wrong-way-round ‘stop’ sign the council workers keep ignoring
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
EAGLED-EYED Weekender reader Ronan Gilroy has been monitoring a situation in his neighbourhood in Grange for more than a week now.
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Michael O’Who and the Knock choc connection
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
GIVEN that at this stage Michael O’Leary is practically synonymous with Ryanair, it was no surprise that the chairman of Sligo Airport board Cllr Albert Higgins should get mixed up with his name last week.
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Thank goodness for Canadians!
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
SO, I’m living in a hotel for the summer. Yes this may sound extravagant, but extravagant it is not.
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Sligo now has ‘Berlin Walls’!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
THE Berlin Wall may be gone but it seems Sligo Borough Council has decided to preserve its memory with its own mini versions.
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Centre (not center) of Tubber hit by more lengthy roadworks
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
IT’S bad enough that the roads in the centre of Tubbercurry are being dug up once again.
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Thieves run amok in Sligo crime rampage
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
DIY thieves ran amok in Sligo the other weekend. They nicked screwdrivers, wire pliers, a police scanner, and were found with a gun and a drug called soma.
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This brutal book summary is hardly a boost for tourism
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
TOURISM interests will probably have mixed views about The Secret Scripture, the critically acclaimed new book by author and playwright Sebastian Barry.
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Sligo fellas needed as Rose of Tralee escorts
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
ROLL up , roll up, Sligo men because you are in need. The search is now on for Ireland’s 30 most eligible bachelors to act as Escorts in the ‘Escort of the Year Competition’ which is taking place at the 2008 Rose of Tralee International Festival.
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Aidan tries a Bertie
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
FIANNA Fail councillor Aiden Colleary had a go at emulating the linguistic contortions of his departing leader Bertie Ahern on local radio last week.
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Request to older readers
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
ONCE again Bits & Pieces returns to the subject of the standard of our roads.
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Another view of cancer protest
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
THE recent cancer services campaign protest march and concert in Sligo proved a massive success with around 4,000 people turning out to send a strong message to Health Minister Mary Harney and the government on the issue.
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Amazing pace of snail-mail card
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Weekender editor Brian McHugh phoned Bernie Chambers, marketing manager at Sligo Airport, on Thursday, April 17 to be greeted with: “Happy Christmas, Brian. I just got your Christmas card.”
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When will this potential killer be fixed?
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
IT’S more than a month since Bits & Pieces highlighted a broken roadside pole on the N17 just north of Ballinacarrow . . . And still nothing has been done.
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We’re all searching ... but for what?
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
APPARENTLY, we’ve become a nation of searchers, with roughly 1.5 million internet users in Ireland. But what are we looking for?
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A swift vacancy
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
NO sooner had Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced last week that he would be stepping down in May, than a description for his job appeared on the internet.
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Your car, and what its colour says about you
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
DOES the colour of the car you drive say anything about your chosen profession?
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Boy, we eat an eggstraordinary amount of chocs over Easter
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
IF you are still munching away on Easter eggs it might interest you to know that it is estimated that Irish households will eat almost one million kilograms of chocolate over the Easter period.
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How do we stop scourge eating away at Sligo?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
THIS is the scene just after the students from Sligo’s secondary schools have boarded their buses for Strandhill and Rosses Point.
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10-year research programme reveals cause of road jams...it’s, um, traffic
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
THOSE of you regularly stuck in traffic in Sligo will be delighted to learn that a 10 year-long research programme in Japan has uncovered the cause of traffic jams.
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Join in the fun of this great contest
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
IT’S the fun competition that everyone is talking about . . . Well that’s what we wrote last week, but then added: (we don’t actually know that, because we haven’t spoken to everyone, but quite a few of us at Bits & Pieces HQ are talking about it, so that’s pretty close)!
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Can’t have students handling explosives!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
WE regularly get students in here in the Weekender on work experience placements from local schools.
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Dane talks double Dutch to Ballymote TD
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
IT used to be said when someone said something that was difficult to understand that they were talking “double Dutch”.
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It was confusing when it was in operation - now it’s even worse!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
BEFORE last July, remember how confusing it was for visitors to Sligo, looking to park somewhere?
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Booze bills: You sure you’re telling the truth?
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
LOOKING at the results of an on-line health check run by health insurer VIVAS Health released last week, you have to wonder if the people from Sligo who took part in the check were telling the truth in relation to how much they spent on alcohol in a year, just don’t realise how much they spend, or that the people who responded to the survey were all moderate drinkers.
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A Culchie guide to driving
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
TO prevent what could become the ‘Culchie Wars’ let us define “The Culchie”.
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Wet, wet, wet . . . is this one of the best-ever ‘typos’
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
JOURNALISTS are always prone to “typos” when writing their stories - that’s a typing error - and sometimes they are particularly apt.
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This cop suffers from exhaustion...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
AAH, garda speak. Where would we all be without it? A prisoner is never brought to the garda barracks. He (or she) is “conveyed” and a car is not a gluaistean but a mechanically propelled vehicle.
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Yes, there IS a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
EVERYONE knows that the Irish leprechaun’s secret hiding place for his pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow - but unfortunately, science tells us that this place is impossible to reach, because the rainbow is an optical effect which depends on the location of the viewer.
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Concerns over crossings
Thursday, January 03, 2008
PARKING and pedestrianisation in Sligo continues to be a hot topic, with one regular Bits & Pieces contributor being prompted to write to us at some length. Here’s what he says:
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Powers-that-be do their bit (and pieces) for Sligo
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
WE don’t know whether to pat ourselves on the back or hand out a bouquet this week. So we think we’ll do both!
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This is really GAA sham-ateurism
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
GREAT, good and middling Gaels have been whinging and moaning at the prospect of county footballers getting a few measly extra euro for their efforts in putting 80,000 bums on seats in Croke Park and elsewhere.
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Rally driver made a lad’s day
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
GRANGE Garda Eugene MacHale received widespread coverage of his heroics at the recent World Rally Championship for rescuing a Jack Russell terrier from the path of a speeding rally car.
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So where is this mysterious sixth county in Connacht?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
BITS & PIECES can, today, make a plea to broadcasters and media people who inhabit the nation’s capital . . . if you can’t be bothered to get off your overpaid backsides and find out about the “far-flung” reaches of the country such as the North-West, at least open a map before engaging your “brains.”
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Parking: It’s tough going for Sligo gardai
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
REGULAR Bits & Pieces readers will recall that this column (occasionally) has a bit of a bee in its bonnet about parking in Sligo.
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The crossing that nobody uses
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
THE most under-used pedestrian crossing in Sligo has to be the one on Connaughton Road near the junction with The Mall where the entrance to the North West Hospice is.
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Downside to Sligo’s new ticket machines
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
IT’S now four months since pay-and-display parking ticket machines were introduced in Sligo, meaning a welcome end to the ridiculous ‘disc parking’ system that totally baffled visitors (who bring tourism revenue) to the town.
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TV weatherman cools on Sligo girl
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
IT WAS a whirlwind of glitz and glamour for a young Sligo woman who dated one of Ireland's heartthrobs, Daithi O’Se. The Weekender happily reported the news that Sligo girl Mairead Hurley, of Ballymote, was dating the TG4 weatherman.
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Now it’s Baron Von O’Leary!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
THE air ‘war’ between Ryanair and Aer Lingus has been running for many years, and in recent months has intensified over the Shannon-Heathrow issue and Aer Lingus’s refusal to grant Ryanair (a major shareholder) an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the controversy.
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Sligo’s on board - but Roscommon grabs top slot
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
SLIGO has won the Rathgar Road spot on the first ever all-Ireland Monopoly board - traditionally the fourth least valuable spot.
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Road will destroy avenue
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
IT SEEMS we are to see a hatchet job done on our local hospital in Sligo. Mary Harney and the Government is about to sack 30 nurses and four medical consultants with the full approval of An Taoiseach Mr Bertie Ahern.
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Actor Hurt reveals pain of no Sligo connection
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
THE BBC show Who Do You Think You Are held a signifigant Sligo interest a week ago when actor John Hurt tried to discover if he was a descendant of “Sligo” nobility.
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Competition where one has to grin and beer it!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
A Bits & Pieces reporter eyes couldn’t believe it when an email asked her to enter the Best Beer Writers competition.
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What’s in a name, Sam?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
THE Weekender received an invitation last week to the official opening of a new office in Tubbercurry for leading UK recruitment agency Reed Recruitment.
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We can’t beat that!
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
AS usual, the Weekender was first with the news last week . . . Even beating the Irish Examiner and Today FM to the punch!
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We need more bins to fight litter
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Bits & Pieces frequently highlights problems with litter in Sligo and the need for action to counteract it.
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It’s so easy to ‘simpsonize’ yourself (or someone else!)
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
THE absolutely, positively, totally best website that Bits & Pieces has comes across recently is a MUST for fans of the hit TV show The Simpsons.
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Council is changing its parking tune
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
THERE have been a number of complaints from motorists in Sligo about the new parking machines.
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Sligo parking problems are not all one-way traffic
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
PARKING has been, and no doubt will continue to be, a hot topic in Sligo town.
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The mystery of Brazilian beef
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
YOU may be aware that farming organisations here are campaigning for a ban on the importation of Brazilian beef into the EU.
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In tests, nine out of ten hedgehogs prefer cat food!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Bits and Pieces can reveal that Hedgehogs are happy being kept as family pets in Sligo town.
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Weathermen hit again
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
WE don’t know if the former chairman of North West Tourism, Councillor Sean McEniff is paranoid but he would have reason to be if he was reading the Irish Independent last Monday week.
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We’ve got loads of cities
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
THERE has been quite a bit of debate as to whether Sligo is a city or not. However, the county’s largest urban area would have little difficulty qualifying as one on a website we came across this week.
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Are our TDs worth the money?
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
JUST 21 days after the 30th Dail re-convened on June 14 (following a 20-day break immediately after the general election), TDs gave up work for the summer last Thursday . . . and they won’t be back for 82 days.
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Heaven help these poor motorists
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
SOME worshippers at Late Mass at Sligo Cathedral show a very unchristian attitude to their fellow motorists every Sunday, one of our Bits & Pieces correspondents has told us.
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Bree and McGarry just can’t seem to agree…
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
THERE are 12 councillors on Sligo Borough Council, split geographically with four members from each of the three wards (North, East and West).
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The sight that one reader will want to see again soon
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
IF THE world suddenly went blurry on Wednesday last, it might be because you lost your glasses in Sligo’s Stephen Street Car Park.
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London 2012 logo causes uproar
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A HUGE row has blown up in the UK over the design of the official logo for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Female TDs: An endangered species in Ireland
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
MARIAN Harkin’s decision not to run for the Dail in the general election has had a rather interesting outcome, gender-wise.
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Mr Tayto plays a blinder in the 2007 election campaign
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
FRANK Kelly, aka Father Jack from the TV comedy Father Ted, was shouting “Tayto” rather than “Drink” when he visited the Weekender offices with Mr Tayto last week.
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GO for it! Get voting to get Sligo on Irish Monopoly board
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
SLIGO is in danger of being left out of the new all-Ireland Monopoly board - if citizens don’t get voting quickly.
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Stuck in a moment they just couldn’t get out of
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
BITS & Pieces has learned that Weekender reporter Niamh Mullen got stuck in the lift in The Glasshouse Hotel for 30 minutes the other week with four secondary school students and their teacher.
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Going radio gaga at Bits & Pieces HQ
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
AT Bits & Pieces the preferred daytime radio show is Today FM – which is why the things some of its presenters say often appear in this column.
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Don’t get taken in by scams such as this
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Our esteemed editor Brian McHugh was on holidays in the past week so he has only learned since he came back of the following great surprise for him that arrived via his email while he was away.
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Bit O’Red may be in need of a new nickname
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
SLIGO Rovers have one of the best nicknames in football – that’s any football, not just Eircom League Irish football.
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Historic photo appears all over the world
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
IN recent weeks the word “historic” has been tossed around like confetti, principally by radio and TV news presenters discussing the latest non-GAA game that’s just about to be played at Croke Park.
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Amazing statistics of the grizzly bear that ate two hunters
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
THINK yourself lucky that, when you’re out walking in Ireland, you won’t experiece the dangers that are lurking around every bush in Alaska.
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These road signs just don’t want to go away
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
IT is now more than three months since the Weekender reported on a near-catastrophe on the N4 near Collooney, when 16 vehicles were damaged early one morning after running into a pothole at roadworks on a bridge just north of the town.
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Sentenced to reading council correspondence
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
IS it any wonder that most people would prefer a hole in the head to having to deal with local authority gobbledegook.
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BITS & PIECES ‘EXCLUSIVE’: 13 (possibly unlucky) differences between men and women…
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
1. NAMES: If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara.
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Oops. A Sligo gets into the works
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
DID you think that the Sligo address was confined to the north-west of the country? If so, the letters page of last Wednesday’s Irish Independent may have left a few doubts in your mind.
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Wikipedia reveals some strange goings on at Grange
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
THE website Wikipedia – the online encyclopaedia that is put together from the submissions of internet users – is rapidly becoming a bit like a box of chocolates.
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Shane shivers with the rest of them
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A COUPLE of Saturdays ago Sligo-based Westlife star Shane Filan found out to his cost that cut-price flights to England are not always all they’re cracked up to be.
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Headline that wasn’t all white
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
ONE of the problems of being a daily newspaper is that, between printing and the moment the customer picks up the paper the following morning, there exists a period of eight or nine hours.
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What’s up with these Pearse Road lights?
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
THERE’S something amiss at a major intersection in Sligo. Over the past few weeks, eagle-eyed Bits & Pieces operatives have noticed a not-terribly-subtle change at the junction of Mail Coach Road and Pearse Road.
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Cool school clobber
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
WE’RE sure that all schoolkids would rather be wearing their own clothes to school than uniforms.
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Is this the true Ireland? (If not, it’s still pretty amusing)
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The latest missive doing the rounds on the internet is about what it’s like to live in Ireland in 2007. Bits & Pieces suspects this may be an “Irishised” version of an American internet offering, but some of the “facts” really are rather intriguing.
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Counting your horses isn’t always advisable
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
There is a type of individual who can keep calm in times of stress but sometimes it can be a bit tricky if one is a bit too cool.
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Please can we have a couple of big stores?
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Last week the Weekender reported that local authorities in Sligo are planning for the town growing to a population of 40,000, which is roughly two thirds of the population of the whole county at present.
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Jobs for the boys if they get kicked out at the election
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
LAST week we suggested that Bertie Ahern could always get a job as a plasterer if he is rejected by voters in the election later this year.
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Double Christmas cheer in Tubber
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
THE Christmas lights in Tubbercurry look fantastic, which means it’s not always about how many bulbs you’ve got, but how you use them.
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Missing workmen riddle is solved
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
THE pitiful, snail-like progress of roadworks on the N17 just north of Tubbercurry – which, as we constantly like to remind Sligo County Council, is the main west coast road from the “gateway city” of Sligo heading south to Galway (the third-largest city in the country), to Limerick (the fourth-largest) and Cork (the second-largest) – is in stark contrast to how fast things have been going on constructing the Ennis bypass around the County Clare capital town.
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Passengers really do want everything
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
BITS & PIECES never ceases to be amazed at the attitudes of people! For example, take last week’s page three story in the Sligo Weekender about train services between Sligo and Dublin being disrupted by heavy rain.
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Men in black stop man in black car
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
It’s official . . . Some members of the travelling community go around in Black Rover 75 cars.
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Seasonal work in red and white
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
We noticed an unusual job advertised in the Irish Independent last week.
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Text record
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Do you think you are world class with the thumb when it comes to texting?
Well, you can test yourself against the new world record for writing a text message set by a student in Singapore.
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Send your bits&pieces to:
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Sligo Weekender (Bits & Pieces column), Waterfront House, Bridge Street, Sligo
or fax to 071-917 4911or e-mail editor@sligoweekender.ie
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Civilised Gardai
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
You may have seen news items last week about a report advocating more civilian posts within the Garda Siochana.
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Dead money
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
While we spend most of our lives trying to make massive amounts of money, there are those who now make more dosh dead than alive.
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A creative way to make your point
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
A COUPLE of artists took to the streets, literally, on the Monday before last to raise awareness of the ongoing dispute between Shell and opposers of the company’s plans for gas lines in Rossport in County Mayo.
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Taking land from yourself
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
TRY to get your head around this one.
Sligo Borough Council has made an order to compulsory purchase land from a number of parties in connection with the development plan for the Wine Street car park.
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Why some hobbies can be dangerous
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
They say there is no accounting for taste in matters of love/lust. But hobbies can be quite bizarre as well as we found out in Ballymote District Court last week.
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Minister prepares to give ‘dig out’
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin was pictured with spade in hand and looking in working mode at the launch of the new enterprise centre at Collooney on Tuesday week last.
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On this occasion Pat really didn’t ‘Cope’ well
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
It was a classic case of the ‘Cope’ taking the Bishop’s name in vain. There he was, Pat “The Cope” Gallagher, a harbinger of good from Donegal assuring the decent folk of Dromore West that the rural transport initiative was now set in “concrete”.
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Ryder Cup-style signage
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
YOU probably thought that the infrastructure being put in for the Ryder Cup was only confined to Dublin and Kildare – but it seems some signage obviously designed for Americans has made its way to Sligo.
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The incredible shrinking N17 road…
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
THE stretch of the N17 between the Ballymote turn-off just north of Ballinacarrow and Tubbercurry is one of the slowest stretches of the West Coast route linking Cork with the North-West (apart from Ennis to Gort, which is absolutely the most infuriatingly tortuous main road in Ireland!).
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Workmen were digging up O’Connell Street last week (gasp!)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
OPPONENTS of Sligo Borough Council’s pedestrianisation of O’Connell Street got a double – probably triple – shock last week.
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Chocolate overdose
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Can you ever really have too much of a good thing? The answer is probably ‘yes’ for one young American who was left with bitter-sweet memories following a bizarre factory accident.
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‘Irish’ paper run from Kensington
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
The so-called ‘Irish’ Daily Mail continues to show its roots are firmly in London’s trendy west London borough of Kensington.
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Westlife Shane’s €50 windfall
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Apart from being chased by a rhino, Westlife’s Shane Filan had a good week last week.
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Mr Burns proves the wildest Rover
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Sligo Rovers defender Liam Burns may be a giant on the pitch and one of the most important members of the team, but off the field he clearly resembles his evil namesake from The Simpsons, at least according to his unforgiving team-mates.
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Small soldiers in national anthems
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
WE enjoyed the short letter that appeared last week in The Irish Examiner from Patrick Houlihan, in Killorglan in Kerry.
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Movie magic hits Tubbercurry
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
EVER fancied yourself as a bodyguard or an escort to the stars? Ever wanted to sample the red-carpet treatment at a movie premiere. Well now is your chance...sort of!
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Don’t know if you’re coming or going
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
The recent warm weather has been helping visitors to Sligo Post Office . . . the two doors into the building have been wedged open to try to get some air through the sweltering building.
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Asking for trouble
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
The railings outside the Yeats Building in Sligo town are being repainted blue, with a sign there saying “Wet paint, be careful!” Which, rather than deter people, has acted as an incentive for many to leave an indelible fingerprint.
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Sligo footballers sign for Longford
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Sligo Gaelic footballers Eamon O’Hara and Pádraig Doohan have apparently switched their allegiance to Longford, if the RTÉ sport website is anything to go by.
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Does Sligo have no quality buildings ?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
EACH year, the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) presents the Irish Architecture Awards in order to recognise excellence in contemporary Irish architecture.
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Can’t buy health or happiness
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
IF we needed confirmation that wealth does not necessarily bring health and happiness, it was provided in three surveys published in the last week or so.
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It’s funny what people find funny
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
IT’S funny the things people say, and in this case the word ‘funny’ is apt.
Tennis player Maria Sharapova was being interviewed after a match at Wimbledon which was interrupted by a streaker.
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Parking excuse was a dead loss
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
WE talked to Ted Maloney, one of Sligo’s traffic wardens, this week about bad parking practices that he regularly encounters in his job.
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Jedi master visits master poet
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
SLIGO is feeling the Force as a bizarre internet site offers pictures of Jedi master Yoda, from the legendary Star Wars films, taking time off from fighting the Empire to visit Ireland, and WB Yeats’ grave in Drumcliffe.
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Really desperate housewives
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
WE know there are many women who are into football but, let’s face it, the male of the species is probably still in a big majority when it comes to wanting to watch absolutely every match of the World Cup.
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Long arm of the law extends
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Sometimes fixing a date for a court hearing can cause problems but a case at Sligo district court last Thursday had more complications than usual.
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Are we having the time of our lives?
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
THAT is the question that has become the topic of a television programme that was aired last week.
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Woman power at Sligo Chamber
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Woman power was much to the fore at Thursday’s AGM of Sligo Chamber.
The elegant Ann Clinton presided over the meeting and gave an highly interesting address in her role as chamber president.
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A sign for the innocent and for the foolish
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
WE only recently noticed the wording on a sign at the car park at the Dunnes Stores shop in Adelaide Street.
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Prison details on death certs?
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
It must have been all the publicity about the recent 25th anniversary of the hunger strikes in Long Kesh that caused our normally very accurate TD John Perry to be a bit confused last week.
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The reason why tickets went up
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
IS IT any wonder that parking tickets in Sligo were more than doubled a couple of weeks ago, when you compare the size of the old ticket to the new one.
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Illegal dumpers must be punished
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
THE mentality of some people never ceases to amaze. A photograph, sent in by a reader, shows rubbish dumped at this beautiful location at Lough Easkey.
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Hares jump on the Rising bandwagon
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
LOTS of people are jumping on the 1916 Easter Rising bandwagon at the moment but we came across a rather strange one this week.
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Ray’s figures are for the birds
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
As you can see Ray D’Arcy had an encounter with a swan when he was in Sligo last Wednesday for his Today Fm radio show.
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Cavan is the brainiest county?
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WEEKENDER editor Brian McHugh took great pleasure in circulating an email he received this week.
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Airports, teabags and Swiss cheese
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
YOU may wonder what teabags and Swiss cheese have to do with the case last week where an airliner landed at the wrong airport in Derry but the British Airlines Pilots’ Association chairman managed to link all three.
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Web spins airport to Collooney
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Intending passengers from abroad who look up Sligo airport could be forgiven for going off course.
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Mobile phones and Octopus driving
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Some drivers feel they have more arms than an octopus while driving. Transport Minister Martin Cullen conjures up an interesting image when he outlined plans to ban handheld mobile phones while driving.
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Rovers given vote of confidence
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
THE SUNDAY Times certainly know their stuff when it comes to English soccer, but Sligo Rovers fans will be hoping that the newspaper's knowledge of Eircom League soccer proves just as accurate.
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Tough Training for a young journalist
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
When OUR reporter Siobhan Breatnach went to Sligo train station last week she got less than she bargained for.
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No such thing as bad publicity
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Even though the following words from writer Oscar Wilde were first uttered over 100 years ago, they still ring true to this day.
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Chocolate prize is mighty tempting
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
The e-mail began promisingly: Sligo people could win one of nine cars still to be won. Who wouldn’t read on?
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Like father, like daughter
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Nicole Filan, who was six months old last week, takes after her popstar father Shane.
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Independent fails Irish geography
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
SOMEONE in the Irish Independent obviously wasn’t in school the day they did the counties of Connacht in geography class, if one is to judge anything from a map produced in last Wednesday’s issue of the paper.
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Being Bond is ‘just another job’
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Daniel Craig may be due to begin shooting his debut film as James Bond, but the actor is neither shaken nor stirred by the prospect of stepping into some of the most famous shoes in movie history.
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Ransboro escapes an alien landscape
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
PEOPLE in Ransboro probably don’t realise it but they narrowly escaped an "alien landscape" landing in their midst.
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Breakfast on Pluto is served up by a Sligo man
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Sligo man Neil Jordan is highly praised for his latest cinema offering Breakfast on Pluto.
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A year delay for your apple a day
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
How often do you hear the words “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”?
Lovers of apples might not like to hear the following but some of the apples you eat could actually be a year old.
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‘Minister’ Scanlon drops a hint?
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
In a press release sent to media outlets last week, local Fianna Fail senator Eamon Scanlon must have been dropping hints at what he would like to achieve in the future.
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You can’t keep a good dog down
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
THE GREAT Jackie Coogan is back writing for the Weekender this week, just one week after a triple bypass operation in Dublin, and just three days after returning to his native Tubbercurry.
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Is this the death of the video?
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
In the early ’90s when CDs began entering widespread markets, many developers predicted the sharp demise of the cassette tape, just the same way tape had virtually wiped-out vinyl.
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O’Higgins had Sligo at heart
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Ballinary, on the shores of Lough Arrow, has long had links with South America through the area’s most famous son Ambrose O’Higgins.
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Defrock shock for Lawton fans
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Journalists rarely understand the full power of the press, but one authority we don’t have is the power to defrock priests.
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Radio support for the Conways
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
E-MAILS, texts and letters of support from people all over Ireland were shown to The Conway Sisters before they performed on The X Factor last Saturday night.
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Shane’s home is not for sale
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
IS Shane moving house? That was the question that national newspapers hyped up recently with a story that a Japanese businessman offered Westlife’s Shane Filan 11 million for his home hit the headlines.
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Sony go GAA GAA over new game
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
THIS year’s All-Ireland football championship may be over, but those, who can’t wait until next year for some more Gaelic football may have their hunger fed by the release of the first GAA computer game.
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Making it personal
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
ONCE more, Irish Independent columnist Ian O’Doherty has had a go at Sligo rocker Tabby Callaghan.
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It just wouldn’t work here
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
THERE are some ideas we can borrow from other countries and then there are some that you just feel probably wouldn’t work as well here.
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Miss Judging the effect of a story
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
AS a follow up to his story of Miss Print last week, Albert Bree sent us the following:
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Seattle calls Bunnanadden
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
It may be a long way from Bunnanadden to Seattle in the USA, but nowadays distance means nothing where communications are concerned.
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Surely this one has to be a Miss Print
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Albert Bree, in his weekly Rosses Point column in our Community pages, also includes an article from times past in his notes.
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Cranes sprouting up everywhere
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
NOT that long ago the sight of a tower crane on the Sligo skyline was a rarity and a source of wonder.
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Borders removed in the north
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Erne Gaels of Belleek county Fermanagh certainly know all about cross border co-operation.
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Christmas ahead of Halloween
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
WE know that if you are organising a Christmas party and want particular dates you now need to book some places the previous January.
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Examiner takes the lead on historic day
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
In times when the newspaper industry is extremely competitive, it’s nice to see something different every once in a while.
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Cavan theory is confirmed
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
OUR theory about Cavan people’s legendary "thriftiness" being the reason the town is doing so well in the Irish Business Against Litter litter league appears to be confirmed.
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Dodgy dealings with donkeys
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
ALL of us have probably had the experience at one time or another of having a dodgy meal out, and suspected that the ingredients may not have been strictly as described on the menu.
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Nurse comes to the rescue
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Nursing is one of the professions where you are never off duty. The same can be said of some journalists.
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Gerry Ryan’s a fan of the Examiner
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Before he went on holidays, well-known 2FM presenter Gerry Ryan was doing his usual run through of the national newspapers.
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More mileage from the same money
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
THERE is the old joke about how politicians spend the same money three times. They first announce that money is being provided for a particular project, then they announce it is being spent and finally they get another go out of it when the project is completed.
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One way to bury a relationship
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
TO KEEP the spirit of the Goth alive and well in Sligo, it seems appropriate to acquaint our readers with a story told by Glen Hansard of the band The Frames.
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Comment raises a few heckles
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
A COUPLE of lines in our feature last week comparing Rosses Point and Strandhill raised a few heckles among some of the fraternity who like to mess about in boats.
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The value of imag!nation
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
IT IS amazing how sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
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Visitors question petrol prices
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
THIS week (as you can see on pages 6 and 7) we have a feature on the seaside resorts at opposite ends of Sligo’s coastline, Mullaghmore and Enniscrone.
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‘He ain’t heavy, he’s my (Sligo) brother’
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Sligo curate Fr Alan Flanagan has complimented the Weekender on the ‘He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother’ headline on a recent Hilda Kennedy column. Hilda’s moving article was on the recent death of her brother, Peter.
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Martin goes on the line at Markievicz
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Enniscrone referee Martin Duffy found himself in a strange situation in Markievicz Park last week.
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Revs follow Tabby’s lead to Grange
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
How did a small venue in Grange become a mecca for music? Well as puzzling as that question is, there is no escaping the elevated status of Barry’s public house in recent times.
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Delay signs serve no purpose
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Practically every road sign serves a purpose, it gives someone a piece of information that proves useful.
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Back seat driver in helicopter
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
THE term "back seat driver" takes on a whole new dimension when you apply it to one of the navigation devices on board the Sikorsky search and rescue helicopter based at Strandhill.
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The ducklings that fight ugly
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
A reader sent the Weekender the below account of a recent driving experience:
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Signs point way to confusion
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
WHILE obviously the new traffic system will require amendments to some traffic signs around the place, two confusing signs, unrelated to the changes, have been pointed out to us by members of the public.
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Sligo traffic problems solved
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
It seems that a new method of solving Sligo’s traffic and parking problems is being tried.
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Poles and wires
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
IT’S probably not something that you have ever thought of, but did you know that in this country we have 1.5 million electricity poles and enough overhead power lines to circle the globe four times?
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Red means go
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
At traffic lights the rule is very simple: when the light is red you have to stop and when it’s green you go.
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Aussies in a spin over parking
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
IT’S a subject we have touched on before but the experience of one of our reporters last week brought it into focus yet again. It’s the method of payment for parking in the car park at Connaughton Road.
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Minister moves the furniture
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
WHEN a new Minister moves into a government department and begins to make changes, it’s often described as "moving the furniture around".
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Marian gets applause for a breathless performance
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
SLIGO-LEITRIM deputy Marian Harkin earned a round of applause in the Dail last week for a performance that was apparently more breathless than breath-taking.
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Middle of nowhere
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Our journalistic endeavours take us to all manner of places, but few as remote as Newtownmanor Hall, where a dedicated group of actors known as the Lough Gill Players were rehearsing for a new play.
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Strandhill Road is far from posh
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
For any of you who travel to and from Strandhill will know exactly what is meant by comparing the road itself with something you’d find in a third world country.
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Spelling problem
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
A COMMEMORATION was held recently by the families of Sligo’s Noble Six, who were killed during the Civil War at Ben Bulben.
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