The floating boardwalk in Drumshanbo was officially unveiled last week by the Minister for the Department of Rural and Community Development, Deputy Michael Ring. This completes a 14km off road waterside Blueway trail linking Drumshanbo and Leitrim Village. The floating … Continued
There has been a significant improvement in water quality for the public supply in Co. Leitrim in the last 12 months. According to the 2016 Drinking Water Report from the Environmental Protection Agency, there were three boil noticies and water … Continued
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten TD has this week unveiled plans by enet-SSE, a new commercial joint venture between Ireland’s largest open-access fibre network provider enet and energy utility SSE, to commercially bring superfast fibre broadband … Continued
Athlone IT in collaboration with Local Link Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon is offering a great research opportunity to evaluate the Local Link transport in rural and urban areas which will contribute to inform ongoing public policy. The MSc is supported … Continued
Minister of State, Kevin “Boxer” Moran, has warned that politicians need to get “real” about the impact of climate change on our weather. “We need to start up bigger thinking in relation to flooding,” he told local politicians and community … Continued
Thousands of individuals, clubs and organisations from Co. Leitrim have benefited from some of the €5 billion raised by the National Lottery for good causes all over Ireland in the last 30 years. The thousands of Leitrim Good Cause beneficiaries … Continued
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has published Census 2016 Profile 6 – Commuting in Ireland. In the report it is highlighted that the majority of working commuters in County Leitrim travel by car (74.3%) compared to 65.5% of commuters nationally.
Sligo Leitrim TD and Assistant Government Whip, Tony McLoughlin, has announced that € 3,743,850 is being allocated to Leitrim County Council for the construction of 24 new homes under the Government’s Local Authority Housing Construction Programme.
An ISPCA Chief inspector came accross two fully grown black bears being kept in a reinforced shed. It appears that the lady looking after them was involved in a circus and the bears were due to be retired. She took … Continued
Leitrim County Councillors have unanimously backed a motion calling for a ban on the use of glyphosate weed killers in all public areas in Co Leitrim.