Category: Archive
February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Details of the monument’s present status were revealed last week at a fundraising dinner in New York hosted by the monument committee and the Irish North West Tourism agency.
“We have been delighted with the support and reaction in New York. It’s been very positive,” said Sligo Fine Gael TD John Perry, a member of the monument committee.
Perry said that the monument, which will be located in the town of Ballymote, had been three years in the planning and was expected to cost around