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Fianna Fáil in Sligo is getting its selection conventions underway for next year’s Local Elections. On Monday night at the Sligo Southern Hotel the party selected two candidates for the Sligo/Strandhill electorate area.

Fianna Fáil in Sligo is getting its selection conventions underway for next year’s Local Elections. On Monday night at the Sligo Southern Hotel the party selected two candidates for the Sligo/Strandhill electorate area.

Fianna Fáil Cllrs Tom MacSharry and Rosaleen O'Grady have been selected to run in next local elections for the Sligo/Strandhill Municipal District.  

Gardai arrested a man who is known to Angela Canavan on suspicion of her murder, after her body was discovered in Co Sligo one week ago.

A 39 year old Kildare man who was ‘showing nothing but contempt for road traffic laws’ was told by Judge Sandra Murphy at Sligo District Court he was lucky he didn’t kill himself or other road users following a crash in North Sligo.

A 32 year old Sligo man was served the Book of Evidence and sent forward for trial to Sligo Circuit Court charged with possession of child sexual abuse images.

A 25 year old woman before Sligo District Court on a number of charges including assaulting a garda was shouting abuse across the street at a group of people when gardaí arrived on mobile patrol.

Damien Conlon, the 38-year-old Irish man who was murdered in Australia on February 9, is being remembered fondly by locals in his native Co Sligo. A 57-year-old man has been charged with Conlon's murder, which occurred in Oberon, New South Wales.

A 21 year old Sligo man was sentenced to one year and six months in prison by Judge Keenan Johnson at Sligo Circuit Court for possession of drugs for sale or supply.

A man who was begging on the streets of Sligo has been fined €50, at the district court.