Check the weather

• Met Eireann: animated rainfall radar, sea area forecast and sea area map, national forecast, Atlantic weather charts
• Marine Institute: West Ireland wave forecast, Sligo tides and sea temperature, Marine weather buoy readings
• UK Met Office: hourly satellite images
• Tide Times for Sligo

Webcams

• Strandhill surf cam (~5k south across Sligo bay)
• Turf n Surf (streaming webcam in Bundoran ~10k north)

Surfing

• Sligo Surf Schools
• Emerald Swell: Riding the Frigid Waves of a Raging Sea (The New York Times, 2008)
• 60ft waves put Ireland and UK in the big league (The Guardian, 2008)
• Perfect storm (The Guardian, 2007)
• Sun, surf and seaweed (The Guardian, 2006)
• Offshore surfing film
• Surfworld
• Waveriders the film

Sailing

• Sligo Yacht Club, Deadman's Point, Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
• MV Spirit - private ex-lifeboat charter, fishing, island trips
• MV Sea Star

Other

• Irish Whale and Dolphin Group: recent Sligo whale and dolphin sightings
• Starfish washed ashore at Lissadell

WB Yeats's mother's family, the Pollexfens, were Sligo business people and are buried in Saint John's Cathedral in Sligo town. Their business was based in what is now known as 'The Western Wholesale' building in Sligo.

WB Yeats stayed at and was inspired by Lissadell House, and is buried in Drumcliffe churchyard. Both are 10-15 minutes drive from the cottage.

Paintings by Jack B Yeats are on display in the Model::Niland Collection. Jack used locations throughout Sligo for his paintings, particularly Rosses Point represented in Memory Harbour.

The Yeats Society in Sligo runs the annual Yeats International Summer School as well as the Yeats Winter School.

Sligo's cultural heritage needs to be protected. See: preservefortlouis.org

• Vogler Spring festival - "highly successful, high-calibre annual chamber music festival", May bank holiday (30th April - 3rd May 2010, Irish Times review)
• South Sligo Summer School - traditional Irish music (July)
• James Morrison Traditional Irish Music Festival - (early August)
• Coleman Traditional Festival - traditional Irish music (late August)
• Sligo Festival of Baroque Music (October)
• Sligo Live festival - various music events (October)
• Sligo International Choral Festival (November)
• Con Brio - various classical events throughout the year
• Sligo Jazz

• Yeats Tavern restaurant - Drumcliffe
• Drumcliffe Tea House & Craft Shop - Drumcliffe
• Laura's Bar & Restaurant - Carney
• Ósta cafe - Sligo town
• Tobergal Lane cafe and restaurant - Sligo town
• Lyon's Cafe - Sligo town (since 1923)
• Lissadell House

• Sligo Tourism provide a useful Sligo Guide PDF - opens in a new window)
• Visit Knocknarea - burial place of Queen Maeve.
• Climb Ben Bulben ("A view that is worth climbing a mountain for" or here)
• Gleniff Horseshoe and north Sligo walking and cycling routes (Benwiskin Centre PDF).
• Horse riding at the Horse Holiday Farm (Top 10 pony trekking holidays around the world (The Guardian, 2008), The Times review) or at Island View Riding Stables, both in Grange, approx 5 kilometres drive.
• Courses at The Organic Centre, Rossinver, Co. Leitrim - food, green building, gardening etc.
• Eagles Flying (Irish Raptor Centre) in Ballymote, South Sligo.
• Seaweed baths: Voya at Strandhill (modern); Kilcullen's at Enniscrone (historic)
• Sligo Races
• Warriors Run

• The Sligo Champion
• Sligo Weekender
• Ocean FM

Newspaper stories

• Sligo, Ireland: My kind of town (Daily Telegraph, 2009)
• Top ten traditional pubs in Ireland (The Guardian, 2008)
• Emerald Swell: Riding the Frigid Waves of a Raging Sea (The New York Times, 2008)
• 60ft waves put Ireland and UK in the big league (The Guardian, 2008)