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  Listen back to Main evening news, sport nuacht & obituaries for Friday 10th December:

  4,115 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported this evening. Latest figures show the country’s 14-day incidence rate is 1,334 cases per 100,000 people – with Carlow, Westmeath and Kildare having the highest rates. The Chief Medical Officer, Tony Holohan, is expressing ‘very significant concern’ at the situation – saying we’re in an ‘uncertain’

  Emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious collision in Killygordon. The crash happened before 2pm this afternoon near the CAKE centre on the Railway Road. Gardai say the road is closed and is expected to remain so for the rest of the day. Motorists are being advised to seek an alternative

  Police remain concerned for the welfare of Michael McGinty Michael was last seen in the Church Court area of Strabane at approximately 8am on Saturday 4th December. Michael was last seen wearing a black and red top and black bottoms. If you are aware of Michael’s whereabouts please give police a call urgently on

  1,806 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Northern Ireland. Two coronavirus-related deaths have been confirmed in the past 24 hours. 317 Covid patients are in hospital, with 40 in intensive care. Over 3.1 million vaccines have been administered in the North.

A stop and go system will be in place on the Glenties to Dungloe road next week.  As part of road improvement works on the Letterilly Kilraine Road Scheme a Stop and Go system will be in operation on the N56 from Glenties town to the Maas junction on Tuesday 14th of December from the

  Letterkenny University Hospital is the most overcrowded in the country today with 50 people waiting for a bed there this morning. Eight were on trolleys in its ED while a further 42 were waiting on wards. Sligo University had 40 people waiting, making the combined total for North West 90. Nationally, 416 admitted patients

    Minister of State Joe O’Brien is in Letterkenny today visiting the Donegal Intercultural Platform CDP. It is one of seven successful organisations taking part in the pilot Community Development Programme. The €1m pilot programme is aimed at trialling community led interventions that address poverty, social exclusion and inequality, and promote human rights. Donegal

  A survey on Donegal households as it relates to broadband is said to be well underway. National Broadband Ireland, the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan is conducting the surveys in several areas of the county. In Donegal, there are over 32,000 premises in the

  Sinn Fein has increased its lead over Fine Gael and Fianna Fail and has reached a record level of support, according to a new poll. The latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI survey has the party up three points to 35 percent. Fine Gael are down two points to 20 percent, Fianna Fail are on 20

  Passengers from Britain are being advised to take daily antigen tests for five days after arrival. The new advice was issued late last night. This new advice from government comes after it received an updated public health assessment on the Omicron variant. There are now six cases here, after a further five were confirmed

  An investigation has been launched after a number of holiday caravans were broken into in North Inishowen.  The break’-ins happened at some stage between Wednesday and Thursday of this week in the Malin Head area. It’s not yet known if anything was stolen. Gardaí are appealing to anyone who has any information that might

  A total of six cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have been detected in Ireland. The Department of Health has also confirmed 4,022 new coronavirus cases this evening. As of 8am today, 530 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 115 are in ICU. Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said:

  Lifford/Stranorlar now has the highest rate of Covid -19 in Donegal. There have been both slight increases and decreases in the rate across the county. The figures cover the 14 days up to last Monday. North Inishowen recorded 217 cases and a rate of 1279 in the latest data, reflecting a fall. A rise

  Listen back to the main evening news, sport, farming news & obituaries for Thursday December 9th:

Over one thousand customers are currently without power in the Raphoe area.  A total of 1094 customers are affected. The estimated restoration time is 8pm this evening.

  The first walk-in vaccination clinics for booster doses for people aged 50 to 59 will take place this weekend in the Letterkenny Vaccination Centre The centre has relocated to the Letterkenny Business Park, Ballyraine. The clinics will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 9am – 5pm. On Saturday it will be available for

  Lárionad Acmhainní Nádúrtha CTR, an Údarás na Gaeltachta client in the Donegal Gaeltacht, will form part of a €3.1m research project to diversify plant-protein production across the island of Ireland. The Protein-I project, which will be part-based in Falcarragh, aims to co-design pathways to support sustainable value chains that also benefit rural communities. Funding

1,819 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland in the latest 24-hour period. Another four people have also died from the virus. 338 Covid patients are in hospital, with 38 in intensive care. From today, everyone over 40 in the North is able to get a Covid booster vaccine.

  The Government has announced the extension of the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme until the end of January and a restoration of November’s higher rates. Minister Paschal Donohoe said they couldn’t design a targeted scheme for the hospitality sector in time for Christmas. Ministers and officials had been working since Friday to put together a

A motorist has been caught drug driving in Letterkenny.  On Tuesday night, Letterkenny Roads Policing Unit arrested the driver at a Mandatory Intoxicant Testing checkpoint in the town. The driver failed a roadside oral fluid preliminary drug test, testing positive for cannabis and cocaine. Gardai say that weather conditions were extremely poor at the time.

The PSNI say detectives from the Terrorism Investigation Unit backed by local police conducted searches of two residential properties in the Cityside area of Derry today, as part of an ongoing investigation into violent dissident republican activity. A number of items were seized and have been taken away for further examination. No arrests have been

Letterkenny University Hospital had the country’s highest number of admitted patients awaiting beds this morning, with 52 in total, 13 of them on Emergency Department trolleys. Sligo University Hospital had 30 patients awaiting beds, 16 of them in the EU, a North West total of 82, which represents 21% of the national total of 391.

Gardai say the death of a man in a house fire in Glendowan, Churchill last night is being treated as a tragic accident. A man in his 90s was located deceased inside the property, he’s been named locally as John Harley. Gardai say a file will now be prepared for the Coroner.  

People over 50 can get a booster Covid-19 vaccine from today. Third jabs will be offered by appointment, but people can also attend GPs, pharmacies and walk-in clinics, once it has been five months after a second dose. Up to now, boosters had only been available to over 60s and people with underlying conditions.

ESB Networks are reporting no power outages in Donegal this morning in the wake of Storm Barra. There were over 20,000 homes and businesses without power in the county at various points over the past two days, but all have had their power restored. Nationally, there are still 13,000 outages being dealt with. A number

  A further 4,152 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed this evening.  543 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 118 are in ICU. There has been a total of 5,788 deaths related to COVID-19 notified in Ireland.

  All Donegal routes are to be gritted from 9pm this evening. Donegal gritting route index as follows: 06: Inishowen West 04: Inishowen South 01: National Primary North 02: National Primary Central 03: National Primary South 07: Milford South 08: Milford North 09: Cill Ulta East 10: Cill Ulta West 11: Na Rosa 12: Binswilly

Listen back to the main evening news, sport and obituaries for Wednesday 8th December: