Weekly news from around the 32 counties of Ireland

(Source: The Roscommon Herald)

 

SLIGO

A €5 million state-of-the art 80 bed nursing home is to be built at Knappagh Road, creating up to 100 badly needed health care jobs. Shafin Developments Ltd, the construction company owned by Westlife singer, Shane Filan and his brother, Finbarr, will apply to Sligo Borough Council for planning permission for the ambitious project within the next two weeks. They hope to begin construction on the 3-storey over basement building at the rear of Lisroyan House in the middle of next year and to be ready to open the facility by the summer of 2011. Located within the curtilage of Lisroyan House, a Protected Structure, the proposed nursing home will be among the most modern of its type in the country. Lisroyan House is not located within the development site and there are no works proposed to it.

(Source: The Sligo Champion)

 

TIPPERARY

Thurles Waste management company, Acorn Recycling Ltd. celebrated the 'turning of the sod' on the construction of the most advanced composting facility which will be located in Littleton at a cost of €7 million - the only one of it's kind in Ireland. A member of the Arlo Group with head quarters in Archerstown, Acorn recycling's state-of-the-art facility – Agri - environmental business- will create over 30 jobs with significant spin offs to the local economy and will provide opportunities for local tradesmen, farmers, transport businesses and logistics providers. The sod was turned on the facility at the 90 acre site in Littleton last week by Tipperary hurling star Eoin Kelly and Independent Deputy Michael Lowry in the presence of guests and Arlo Group Directors Liam and Donal Kearney.

(Source: The Tipperary Star)

 

TYRONE

A yearlong manhunt, which extended right across Europe for a Tyrone fugitive sex offender from Aughnacloy, has ended at a farm pit in County Cavan. Ernest George Finlay, 54,was found hiding in a vehicle inspection pit at a Cootehill farm on Tuesday last. The convicted rapist was arrested by gardai for failing to notify the authorities of his movement to the Republic. Gardai had picked up the trail after Finlay returned from Bulgaria, where the PSNI had been seeking his extradition.

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