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Arrival and information
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The
bus station
(tel 071/60066) and
train station
(tel 071/69888) are both handily placed on the western edge of town within easy walking distance of almost everything. Feda O'Donnell Coaches (tel 075/48114) has two to three buses daily stopping off in Sligo en route between Galway and Donegal - for journeys north, the bus departs from outside
Connolly's
pub on Wine Street; for journeys south, from outside XL Stop & Shop also on Wine Street. Sligo
airport
(tel 071/68280) is four miles west of town at Strandhill; a taxi into town costs around A?10 (Elliott Taxis; tel 071/41111).
Sligo's main
tourist office
, on Temple Street (mid-June to Aug daily 9am-8pm; rest of year Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; tel 071/61201), is the headquarters for counties Sligo, Leitrim, Monaghan, Cavan and Donegal. They offer car rental, money exchange, Internet access, an accommodation booking service, and also stock
Archaeology in County Sligo
, well worth picking up if you intend on exploring the
archeological sites
of the county in detail. A smaller second tourist office is based in the Yeats Memorial Building, Douglas Hyde Bridge (same times; tel 071/38772) - this is a useful central alternative, although it doesn't have an accommodation booking service.
Bike rental
is available at Flanagan's Cycle Hire, Market Yard (tel 071/44477). For
Internet access
there's the tourist office and
Cygo Internet CafA©
, 19 O'Connell St (Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; tel 071/40082). Other useful information
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