The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has branded proposed legislation on remote working as “useless, unreasonable, and unfair” to employees. ICTU along with employers group IBEC were before an Oireachtas Trade Committee today, to discuss the finer details of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill. General Secretary of ICTU Patricia King says there’s …
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A small quantity of drugs have been seized in Derry. Police responding to a report of people acting suspiciously in an alleyway on William Street at around 12:20am, conducted a search and subsequently seized a small quantity of suspected Class A drugs. A 24-year-old man was dealt with by way of a Community Resolution Notice. …
The INMO is seeking an urgent meeting with senior management in Letterkenny University Hospital in light of dangerous overcrowding. It follows the revelation last evening that 10 ambulances were backed up at the hospital as unprecedented numbers attend the Emergency Department. The INMO says Letterkenny University Hospital has informed all staff that the facility is …
The HSE Chief Executive says they’re trying to hire new healthcare staff in a ‘very challenging recruitment market’, particularly in non city based hospitals such as Letterkenny. The HSE expects to recruit only half of the staff it has funding in place for this year, with non-availability of staff being identified as a major element …
HSE boss says 50% of vacant posts won’t be filled in 2022 Read More »
The Donegal Road Safety Working Group and Finn Harps Football Club have announced the winners of the Primary School Road Safety Art Competition. This year once again many excellent drawings were submitted and the competition continues to be popular with Primary school children in Donegal. Overall Winner: Sam Byrne, St. Baithin’s NS, St. Johnston. Runners …
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The issue of the dredging at Magheraroarty is to be raised in the Dail, after it emerged that at times, ferries and fishing boats are unable to use the pier there. Local Cllr Michael Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig says dredging the area around the pier was previously done as a matter of routine, but now, …
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The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is seeking an urgent meeting with senior management in Letterkenny University Hospital in light of what they say is dangerous overcrowding. It’s claimed all staff have been notified that the hospital is nearing major incident level capacity. INMO Industrial Relations Officer, Neal Donohue says the level of overcrowding in …
‘Staff, patients and people of Donegal deserve better’ -INMO Read More »
During National Slow Down Day, 1,675 vehicles were detected speeding across the country. A number of detections were highlighted in Donegal. One motorist was caught speeding at 124km/h in a 100 km/h zone in Listillion, Letterkenny while another driver was detected travelling at 78km/h in a 50km/h stretch in Porthall. Elsewhere, in Portnason, Ballyshannon a …
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Government representatives who are due to visit America for St. Patricks Day are being urged to exert whatever influence they can on the US Administration to provide solutions for the undocumented Irish. The Migration Policy Institute estimated that there were approximately 16,000 undocumented Irish in the US in 2017. Donegal born Senator Robbie Gallagher says …
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MS sufferers in parts of Donegal are effectively left stranded by a lack of accessible transport. The Swilly-Mulroy MS Support Group says it has a number of wheelchair users who have been unable to attend the weekly support group recently due to a lack of funding for accessible transport. The Milford & District Resource Centre …
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The Health Minister has been told that there is an unprecedented crisis in Letterkenny University Hospital’s Emergency Department. At one stage yesterday 10 ambulances were backed up at the hospital’s ED. Speaking in the Dail last night on a Sinn Fein motion on Health Waiting Lists, Donegal Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn once again highlighted the impact …
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A Donegal town is to receive a share of €1.75m in funding announced today for 13 Historic Towns under Historic Towns Initiative with Heritage Council. €250,000 has been sanctioned for Ballyshannon to conserve the historic built environment. The project will work with the owners of seven buildings on the Mall and Main Street and will …
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A South Donegal Deputy has questioned if Ireland has done all it can amid the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Speaking in the Dail Deputy Marian Harkin said Russia’s invasion was premeditated and well planned. While Ireland announced sanctions on Russia in previous days, Deputy Harkin is unsure if enough has been done:
There are big plans afoot for Bridgend with a planned project set to significantly improve the road through the village. It’s estimated that the Donegal – Derry route facilities more than 19,000 vehicles in both directions every day. The project is geared towards upgrading a 1.2km section through Bridgend and onto the border. A public …
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At least 21 people have reportedly been killed and 112 wounded following Russian shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The regional governor says homes were among the buildings hit. Moscow’s urging residents in Ukraine’s capital to flee – saying it’ll strike key security and communication services. Convoys of Russian armoured vehicles are edging …
Russian shelling in Kharkiv kills over 20 people with 112 wounded – Reports Read More »
The Health Minister has been told that failure to invest in beds and staff at Letterkenny University Hospital resulted in 10 ambulances being backed up at the hospital’s Emergency Department yesterday. A statement issued by Saolta yesterday, said that with an average of 120 patients presenting at the hospital daily over the past week, significant …
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The Minister for the OPW has come under fire for not engaging on the issue of coastal erosion in North Inishowen. There have been ongoing campaigns calling for action to protect the coastline in the Ballyliffin and Malin areas of the peninsula. Particular erosion concerns centre on the Ballyliffin links golf course and the area …
OPW Minister criticised over coastal erosion issues in North Inishowen Read More »
Fórsa is holding an information meeting for Donegal school secretaries on new employment proposals next week. It’s ahead of a ballot of school secretary members on a set of proposals designed to regularise their employment terms and conditions. Draft proposals were finalised last week at the WRC which include a new pay scale aligned with …
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Two gardai and three sergeants got over €50,000 each in overtime last year. According to freedom of information figures, one officer got €61,000. The total bill for Garda overtime in 2021 was €114 million – nearly 15 million more than the previous year. Sinn Féin’s justice spokesman, South Donegal Deputy Martin Kenny, is calling for …
120 patients on average have been presenting to Letterkenny University Hospital for treatment every day over the past week. Management has confirmed that the situation has resulted in significant delays and pressure on bed availability at the hospital. Figures released this evening show that 139 people attended the Emergency Department yesterday. The high number of …
Listen back to the main evening news, sport and obituaries for Tuesday March 1st:
It’s been claimed that there are currently ten ambulances backed up at Letterkenny University Hospital. This equates to roughly three quarters of the entire fleet available to Donegal in any given day. Cllr Gerry McMonagle who is also chair of the Regional Health Form West says the situation appears to have hit crisis level. Cllr …
8,071 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed today. The Department of Health has been notified of 3,300 PCR-confirmed cases. In addition, 4,771* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal yesterday. As of 8am today, 616 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 48 are in ICU.
Gardai are currently at the scene of a crash in Donegal Town. No further details are known at this time.
The HSE says it must recruit 9,500 people a year just to ‘stand still’. CEO Paul Reid says staff turnover means the health service would need to recruit almost 20-thousand new staff in order to meet its recruitment targets. The HSE came before an Oireachtas Committee last month, after details of an internal meeting …
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2,567 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in the north in the last 24 hours. There have been five additional covid related deaths. 473 patients are being treated for the disease in hospitals in Northern Ireland, with five in ICU.
Around €70m in roads funding is set to be spent in Donegal this year. A number of recent allocations already announced by the Department of Transport, the TII and the NTA make up the combined total. Donegal County Council has today released details of where the money is going. The Department of Transport funding will …
Today is Stop Food Waste Day 2022. Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D. is reminding consumers today, to think critically about the amount of food we waste. The focus of this year’s Stop Food Waste Day ‘Make Use-By Dates Work for You’ is to make people aware that: § food passing …
Donegal County Council has received official notification of the amended Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme Regulations. The regulations were signed last week by Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien. Three changes are being introduced to the Redress Scheme under the amended regulations which Donegal County Council says they are committed to implementing as soon as possible. The …
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123 vehicles have been caught speeding in the first two hours of National Slow Down Day – out of nearly 25 thousand checked. Among them, a motorist was caught driving 130 kilometres per hour on the M50 in Dublin – which has a limit of 100 kilometres per hour. A driver on the Skehard Road …
Donegal Garda warns Slowdown Day is about ‘saving lives’ Read More »
Gardai in Donegal are encouraging people to review their home security in light of an increase in burglaries. Over the weekend there were four break-ins in Inishowen and one in Lifford, which gardai believe may have been linked. On today’s Community Garda Slot, Garda Niall Maguire said this reflects an increase in burglaries, particularly …
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A Ukrainian woman living in Letterkenny says shock has now turned to reality. Oxana says she thought it was impossible in 21st century that the events witnessed in Ukraine over the past 6 days would ever occur. She told Greg Hughes today that given the actions of Vladimir Putin no one knows what the world …
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The Donegal Intercultural Platform isw coordinating a number of events to support Ukraine, and is also gathering first aid and other essential materials to be shipped over there by a Dublin based company. On today’s Nine til Noon Show, Paul Kernan of the Intercultural Platform urged any Ukranian people in Donegal to make contact with …
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The Canadian Ambassador to Ireland is in Donegal. Nancy Smyth has met with the Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Council, Councillor Jack Murray and representatives of Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce and Letterkenny Institute of Technology during her visit. She’s praised Ireland for it’s efforts in terms of tourism. Speaking on the Nine til Noon Show a …
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Gardai say they’ll be conducting high visibility checks on routes right across the country today as part of National Slow Down Day. More than 1,300 speed enforcement zones will be monitored over the next 24 hours, a number of them in Donegal, with the operation due to end at 7am tomorrow. The Road Safety Authority …
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Satellite images show a 40-mile long convoy of Russian military vehicles near the Ukrainian capital. Airstrikes have also been carried out on an airbase on the edge of Kyiv. The first round of talks between the two sides have ended without agreement. Meanwhile, the UN says more than half a million people have now fled …
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A West Donegal Councillor says if dog owners don’t take control of their animals, farmers will have no other option than to take matters into their own hands. Councillor Michael McClafferty says the frequency of dogs chasing sheep in the area, particularly in Creeslough is worsening. He raised the issue a number of weeks ago …
Sheep attacks on the increase in West Donegal – McClafferty Read More »
New Fairtrade signs will be visible in Dunfanaghy from today, The town was acknowledged by Fairtrade Ireland as a Fairtrade Town in 2021. As part of Dunfanaghy/Donegal Fairtrade Fortnight 2022, the new signs were commissioned and produced by Donegal Creative. At 11.00am this morning, supporters of Fairtrade will gather at the Golf Club/Community Alert sign …
Irish Water is under pressure to fast track upgrade plans for Inch in south Inishowen. It follows yet another water outage to hit the area yesterday evening and another one over the weekend, leaving hundreds of homes without supply for a time. Irish Water gave a previous commitment that it would carry out the necessary …
South Inishowen water upgrades must be prioritised – Murray Read More »
The Vice President of the GRA says the attack on a Garda in County Cavan has sent shockwaves through the force. The Garda stopped a car in the Blacklion area in the early hours of yesterday morning when he was held at gun point and dragged into a car. The unarmed Garda was subsequently assaulted, …
Members of Derry City and Strabane District Council have posthumously granted the Freedom of the City and District to NHS nurse and Strabane man Pat McManus, who tragically died of Covid19 in 2020. The proposal to confer the Freedom of the Derry City and Strabane District was prompted by a notice of motion brought …
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A conference in Donegal has been told that two research projects at Letterkenny University Hospital have been a very successful, with both set to be extended beyond the county. The first, which has been running for some years examined how best to support patients after treatment, and analysis of the data has shown that those …
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Listen back to the main evening news, sport and obituaries for Monday February 28th:
5,919 new Covid19 cases have been confirmed today. There are 2,277 PCR-confirmed cases, while 3,642 people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal. Figures for the weekend have also been released including 6,782 for Saturday and 5,157 for Sunday. 610 patients are in hospital, 47 of those are in ICU.
A speeding motorist has been caught drug driving and having out of date tax by two years in North Inishowen. Gardai from Buncrana were on patrol in the Carndonagh area on Saturday night when they stopped the car after it was detected travelling in excess of the speed limit. They then discovered that the tax, …
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Detectives are urging vehicle owners to be vigilant following a report of a car theft in Strabane during the early hours of this morning. A white BMW X5, registration number CD0 8ETH was reported stolen from Glenview Manor in the town shortly after 2:05am when it was seen being driven away from the area. …
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There were almost 770 patients waiting for a bed at Letterkenny University Hospital during the month of February. Nationally, the number of people on trolleys in February 2022 has exceeded pre-pandemic levels of 8,515 in 2019. According to data released today by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, Letterkenny University Hospital was on average …
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It’s going to take some time before schools fully return to normal, post covid, according to some principals. From today class pods can go, lockers can be used again, after school activities can resume and face coverings are no longer needed. Schools are among the last places to lift restrictions.
A PSNI investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries has so far received 29 allegations of criminal activity. The inquiry – which started in October – centres on allegations of physical and sexual abuse. Detectives believe there are still more people out there who’ve not yet come forward – including those who no …
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The future of rail in the North West is to be explored at an upcoming webinar. A discussion will take place next Monday March 7th between Derry City and Strabane District Council, Government and transport representatives and local campaigners on how to transform rail connectivity in the region. Organised by Derry City and Strabane District …
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