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  A top level crisis management team meeting has taken place ahead of the arrival of Storm Barra. The National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management’s Crisis Management Team, conducted a virtual meeting today with Met Éireann, the OPW, and Local Authority Severe Weather Assessment Teams. The key public safety messages are for people to

A number of Donegal routes are to be gritted this evening.  From 5pm the following routes will be gritted 01: National Primary North 02: National Primary Central 04: Inishowen South 05: Inishowen East 06: Inishowen West 07: Milford South 08: Milford North 09: Cill Ulta East 12: Binswilly 13: Stranorlar North 14: Stranorlar East 15:

    A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of a charity donation box at the Whoriskey’s Christmas Lights display in Kerrykeel.  The box was stolen at around 9pm last night. Gardaí in Milford were alerted to a theft with investigations commencing locally, they were later assisted by Letterkenny District Detective Unit.

    Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of Michael McGinty. Michael was last seen in the Church Court area of Strabane at approximately 8am yesterday morning. Michael was last seen wearing a black and red top and black bottoms. Anyone who knows of Michael’s whereabouts is being urged to contact police on 101.

  Storm Barra is set to rattle Donegal and elsewhere on Tuesday and Wednesday. Met Eireann has issued a yellow weather warning for the entire country for Tuesday, and that’s expected to update over the coming hours. Strong winds and heavy rain have been forecast, with damaging gusts possible in the West. Some flooding is

  The Department of Health has reported an additional 5,156 new covid cases today. Meanwhile the number of patients in hospital is up 16 on yesterday’s figure, the total is now 503. Of those people, 110 of them are receiving treatment in an intensive care unit.

  There’s pressure on hospitals, with over 1,800 nursing staff vacancies across the country. New figures from five regional hospital groups show 33 hospitals have a total of 1,839 full and part-time vacancies. Today’s Sunday Times reports there are 525 permanent and 192 temporary nursing and midwifery jobs unfilled in the Ireland East Hospital Group.

Heartless thieves have stolen the donation box at the renowned Whoriskey’s Christmas Lights display. The donation box was taken at around 9pm on Saturday evening. It had been a busy night and it’s understood hundreds of euro may have been lost. Money this year is being raised for the BUMBLEance service. It’s not the first

  The Department of Health has reported an additional 5,622 cases of Covid 19 today. There’s been a reduction of 41 in the number of patients in hospital compared to yesterday, it stands at 487. While the number of patients in ICU has risen slightly to 114, up 4 from Friday’s figure.

  The Letterkenny Vaccination Centre in the Letterkenny Business Park has extended the times of its walk-in booster vaccination clinics today Saturday. It’s for people aged 60 to 69 who have reached an interval of at least 150 days since their second dose vaccine or an interval of 3 months since receiving a single dose

    There’s been a 50% increase in sexual offences in Donegal since last year. The offences include assaults and rape. The stark figures were revealed at the latest sitting of the Joint Policing Committee by Chief Superintendent Terry McGinn who said there that been a significant increase in these type of crimes since the

  Derry City and Strabane District Council are seeking the public’s input into a comprehensive five year plan for its delivery of sports and leisure services. The Physical Activity, Wellbeing and Sport Strategy for 2022 – 2027 will detail how Council will deliver and enable others to deliver a range of activities and services to

Met Eireann has issued a weather for Donegal for next week.  The forecaster says that a spell of wet and very windy weather is expected to impact Ireland on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday the 8th December, with potential impacts including travel disruption and coastal flooding. There is also the potential for wintry precipitation on Tuesday

  5,419 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed this evening. 528 patients are in hospital with the virus, with 110 in intensive care. Latest figures show the country’s 14-day incidence rate has risen to 1,358 cases per 100,000 people. Carlow has the highest rate, at 2,171.

  8 million euro is going to be spent on upgrading and improving the transport options for HSE funded organisations. Almost €700,000 is being allocated to CHO1 which covers Donegal. The Junior Minister for Disabilities Anne Rabbitte has announce the funding on International Day for People with Disabilities. The money will go to groups which

    Listen back to the main evening news, sport, nuacht and obituaries for Friday December 3rd:

  The planned extension for Little Angels School in Letterkenny has been given the green light to proceed to construction stage. The extension will be built under the Large Scale Capital Programme. The project will consist of 20 new classrooms and has been described as a substantial boost to the Little Angels school and the

  More than 20 Gardai in the Donegal Garda Division are currently off work due to Covid-19. Garda Chief Superintendent Terry McGinn revealed the details during the latest sitting of the Joint Policing Committee. 21 Gardai in total in the county are currently off duty due to either having Covid or are awaiting the results

  An investigation is continuing into a car fire in Manorcunningham in the early hours of this morning. The incident happened in the Abbey park area at around 5am. It’s understood that the car was subsequently removed for further examination. No injuries have been reported.

  Joe Morgan and Ann Owens – members of the mica redress team from Donegal, supported by the Left Group and Luke ‘Ming’ Flanaghan MEP, this week presented the mica/pyrite defective blocks issue to the EU Petitions Committee (PETI). The issue was also discussed by wider redress team members (Eileen Doherty, Eamonn Jackson, Mary O’