Weekly news from around the 32 counties of Ireland

(Source: The Roscommon Herald)

 

SLIGO

The developers of Sligo Retail Park, Newbay Doherty Group, have made a submission to Sligo County Council calling on them to implement changes to the Draft Sligo and Environs Development Plan 2010-2016. According to Stephen Cassidy, property consultant to Newbay Doherty Group: "If the Council implement the changes to the current Retail Park zoning which we are looking for, then we are ready to start immediately on a redevelopment of the Park which will create 300 new retail jobs for Sligo and another 100 jobs during the construction period.

(Source: The Sligo Champion)

 

TIPPERARY

Plans to build Europe's largest combined sporting, leisure and gaming complex off the M8 motorway at Two-Mile-Borris were unveiled in the Horse and Jockey Hotel on Tuesday last. If completed, the 'Tipperary Venue' would put the Premier County at the forefront of major national sporting, cultural and music events while providing much needed jobs in an area especially hit by the construction downturn. Thurles native Richard Quirke, best known as the driving force behind Dr Quirkey's Good Time Emporium in Dublin, is to finance the E460m project with a group of investors.

(Source: The Tipperary Star)

 

TYRONE

A hit and run incident outside a Donaghmore Road bar is being treated as attempted murder by Dungannon Police. Two pedestrians were taken to hospital in Craigavon after a black Mercedes mounted the pavement and struck them shortly last Monday. Three people were injured in the incident with two taken to hospital before being discharged. Their injuries are not believed to be serious. Rival groups of 30-40 men from Carrickmore and Dungannon had been dispersed by police from in front of premises.

(Source: The Tyrone Times)

 

WATERFORD

Two young men, who had been living and working in Waterford for many years, had their lives tragically cut short when the car in which they were passengers was hit head on by another vehicle in the early hours of Monday morning last. The dead men, named as Lee Salkeld (26) and Brendan Donnelly (24), were on their way from Waterford to Cork Airport on holidays with their partners, when the Volkswagon Polo they were traveling in was in a collision with a Ford Mondeo. Salkeld and his partner Kate Flynn had only recently had a little baby girl together, while Mr. Donnelly and his girlfriend, Laura Connolly, had just bought their first home together in Greenfields.

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