Another Tuesday up-date Blog by Donie

Ian Baraclough is confirmed as the new manager of Sligo Rovers

     

Left picture the new manager Ian Baraclough and right pic the new kit for 2012.

 

Sligo Rovers have announced the appointment of Ian Baraclough as the club’s new manager. The 41-year-old joins Sligo Rovers after the unanimous approval of the club’s interview board as the outstanding candidate for the Bit o’ Red job.   

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Ireland’s home prices drop by 15.1% in a year ‘biggest decrease yet’

Official figures show that prices of houses and apartments across the country fell at their fastest annual rate in two years last month.

      

Official figures show that prices of houses and apartments across the country fell at their fastest annual rate in two years last month, with a particularly sharp fall in house prices in Dublin.

The Central Statistics Office said residential property prices dropped by 17.4% in the year to January, the biggest annual fall since January 2010.

There was a 1.9% decline during the month of January after a 1.7% drop in December. Prices nationally are now 48% below peak levels reached in early 2007.

In Dublin, residential property prices fell by 4% in January and were 21.1% lower than a year ago. Dublin house prices fell by 4.1% in the month – their biggest drop since March 2009 – and were 21.7% lower compared with a year earlier. Dublin apartment prices were 18.4% lower when compared with the same month of 2010. Dublin apartment prices dropped by 3.5% during January, having risen for the previous two months.

Prices of residential properties in the rest of Ireland dropped by 0.7% in the month, giving an annual fall of 15.1%.

The CSO says house prices in Dublin are 55% lower than their peak level in early 2007, while Dublin apartment prices are 59% lower than in February 2007. The fall in residential property prices in the rest of Ireland is lower at 43%.

Sligo father found guilty of rape and sexual abuse of his daughter

         

A 48-year-old Sligo man has been convicted of the rape and sexual abuse of his 13-year-old daughter which led to him fathering her child. The man, who has a previous conviction for rape and sexual abuse of another teenage girl, has been remanded in custody pending sentence next month.

He had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to eight counts of sexual assault and seven counts of rape at the family home between September 2005 and September 2007.

The complainant, now 19, said her father sexually abused her once every two to three weeks from when she was 13. The jury of eight men and four women returned unanimous guilty verdicts on all counts after just over an hour.