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The three killers of pensioner Tom Niland (75), who died 20 months after being beaten and robbed in his rural Sligo home, have been jailed for a total 43 years.

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Tom Niland killers jailed for combined total of 43 years after ‘cowardly attack’ on 75-year-old retired farmer ↗

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Sligo pharmacist Ann Butler has been appointed President of Sligo Chamber of Commerce.

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Pharmacist Ann is Sligo Chamber’s new President ↗

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An architect and lecturer, who spent his childhood growing up in Sligo, has opened an exhibition in his native Libya on the subject of colonial architecture.

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Architect and lecturer that grew up in Sligo opens exhibition in his native Libya ↗

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Sligo County Council through the Sligo Regional Design Office have carried out a tender process for the procurement of technical advisors to assist with the progression of the N15 Grange Active Travel Scheme.

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Technical advisors appointed to N15 Grange Active Travel scheme in Sligo ↗

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Ongoing delays concerning major projects at three Sligo schools, Gaelscoil Cnoc na Rí, Grange Post Primary School and Ursuline College Sligo have been described as “unacceptable” with one of the projects in danger of planning permission expiring as a result of “a lack of political will and the release of funding from the Department of Education.”

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School projects being held up over failure to release funding ↗

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Three ‘remorseless’ criminals who beat pensioner Tom Niland to death in his home to steal his money had a combined total of 106 previous convictions, a court has heard.

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Killers of Tom Niland are facing a sentence of between 15 and 20 years, court is told ↗

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Student Caden Casey from Gurteen, Sligo has been presented with the prestigious highly commended award at the Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA).

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Sligo history student honoured at all-Ireland undergraduate awards ↗

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The obscene brutality of the attack that led to the agonising and slow death of Tom Niland was laid bare at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

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‘His death has left a void that can never be filled’ – brutality of Tom Niland’s killing completely at odds with Sligo farmer’s peaceful, rural life ↗

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