Hoping to get into Sligo in September

Mully_2011

Right have a few questions

where the best place to rent I personally dont fancy paying any more the 50 euro p/w

Gym does the college have one ?

What sort of Martial arts are done in the college ?

Whats is there to do in Sligo ?

UrbanSea

If you're not going to pay that much for rent then don't look at any of the student accomadation around the I.T. It's very poor quality and very expensive.
Check around and see if there's any house sharing or anything. Apartments at Citygate are rumoured to be quite cheap,it's about a fifteen minute walk to the I.T.
There's an excellent gym at the college,not sure about martial arts there,but plenty of clubs around town.

In town,if you're into going out Sligo's a great spot during the college year. The Leitrim being the popular pre night club spot,shots are about a quid. There's the usual craic then. Cinema,two shopping centres,football pitches at the I.T,snooker and pool hall in the Belfry amongst others.

Mully_2011

UrbanSea wrote: »

If you're not going to pay that much for rent then don't look at any of the student accomadation around the I.T. It's very poor quality and very expensive.
Check around and see if there's any house sharing or anything. Apartments at Citygate are rumoured to be quite cheap,it's about a fifteen minute walk to the I.T.
There's an excellent gym at the college,not sure about martial arts there,but plenty of clubs around town.

In town,if you're into going out Sligo's a great spot during the college year. The Leitrim being the popular pre night club spot,shots are about a quid. There's the usual craic then. Cinema,two shopping centres,football pitches at the I.T,snooker and pool hall in the Belfry amongst others.

yeah thats the exact reason I dont want to pay big money for student housing from experience your getting very little for your money but I know going by experience in Athlone good housing can be got cheap if you look

UrbanSea

True. I was looking there,Citygate would work out about 75 a week with 2 people sharing.
There's one here on Pearse Road(about a 25 minute walk or 10 min cycle) at 600 with 3 bedrooms,so if you could get two people to share it would be about 50 a week.

http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=1093344

wolf99

Best thing to do is take a day to go to sligo and visit the estate agents, tell them how much your willing to spend and see what they have to offer, not necessarily telling them your a student can help them to trot out a better pony...
generally though the best deals can be got if your sharing, there are quite a few of the newer apartments around the place empty recently and I know market yard has a few empty flats which is nearly in the town centre.

Mully_2011

Got my Place delighted do the students union have a list of houses ?

wolf99

see the lists here http://www.itssu.ie/accommodation/

havent checked how up to date it is, but if you give them a quick phone call they are generally pretty good at helping get accommodation sorted.

Apparently there're rumours that the gateway complex beside the campus is in liquidation though they seem to be still accepting bookings. Again best to check with the SU, and if they dont know, the guy that runs gateway is called Vincent and is pretty sound so he wont mind if you give em a ring to double check