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  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:

  Spraoi agus Spórt has been awarded €20,000 in funding to address educational disadvantage in Inishowen. The money has been allocated by Donegal Education & Training Board through SOLAS as part of the Irish government’s Mitigating Against Educational Disadvantage Fund (MAEDF). The Mitigating Against Educational Disadvantage Fund aims to address educational disadvantage experienced by vulnerable

New listenership figures have cemented Highland Radio position as Donegal’s most listened to radio station. The latest JNLR figures show that 79% of the population choose Highland Radio on a weekly basis with 53% of the adult population tuning in everyday. The station’s market reach, a key indicator for advertisers, remains the highest in the

  The Department of Education is advising that schools across the country open tomorrow as usual. The Department has thanked school communities, staff, students and parents, as well as the emergency services for their support during Storm Barra. Schools in red and orange alert counties have been closed for the past two days.  

  30 thousand homes and businesses are still without power due to Storm Barra. In Donegal, areas in Letterkenny, Carndonagh, Derrybeg, Killybegs, Ballyshannon and Bundoran are currently experiencing outages. The storm is gradually clearing towards the UK but there are strong winds in many areas. Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim are under a status yellow alert

  1,933 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in the North in the last 24 hours. There have been five additional covid related deaths. There are 329 patients with the disease in hospital in Northern Ireland, with 38 in ICU.

HIQA has published reports on two Community Nursing Units in Donegal – Ramelton and Dungloe. There were a number of non-compliances identified in Ramelton. The centre in Dungloe recorded no non-compliances. In the case of unit in Ramelton, which had 22 residents at the time of the inspection in July, a number of issues were

There were 50 admitted patients awaiting beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning, seven of them on Emergency Department trolleys. The figure is down nine on yesterday. At Sligo University Hospital, there were 35 people awaiting beds, 21 of them in the ED. The combined North West total of 85 is again higher than Limerick,

There are almost 400 homes and businesses without power in Donegal at the moment, according to ESB networks. There are 68 in Ballyraine, Letterkenny and 180 in Derrybeg, with an estimated restoration time of early tomorrow morning. Several hundred customers in Bundoran have had their power restored after outages this morning, with 49 now without,

Storm Barra Update – Road Closures Following the impact of Storm Barra, Donegal County Council wish to advise of the following temporary road closures due to fallen trees etc Donegal Municipal District R267 just past the Abbey Vocational School. L-1835-5 at Garvagh, near Lough Eske L-1835 – at Friary, Lough Eske L-1965-1 – Shore road

Police in Strabane are appealing for information following a fatal collision at Victoria Road, Ballymagorry, yesterday afternoon. The driver of a white Volkswagen Transporter van, a man aged in his 20’s named locally as Aaron Harkin from Strabane, died as a result of the collision involving a red Scania cement lorry, at around 3.25pm. The

  Buncrana-based ceramicist & visual artist Matthew Porter is ‘all fired up’ ahead of his first solo exhibition which will be showcased at Artlink Fort Dunree from the 9th December 2021 until 16th January 2022. A graduate of Crawford College of Art & Design in Cork, Matthew returned home to Donegal in 2017 to set

Clinics which were to have been held at the Letterkenny Vaccination Centre this morning have been cancelled, as have walk in clinics. Those with appointments will be contacted by text with rescheduled dates as quickly as possible. A decision will be made later on whether the clinic will open this afternoon. Covid test centres in

  Donegal’s Garda Chief Superintendent is to further pursue the possibility of installing defibrillators in patrol cars. While some Garda stations in the county are equipped with the lifesaving equipment, it’s thought that their vehicles should be too. The call was made at the latest sitting of the Joint Policing Committee by former Garda Sergeant

  The Department is advising that all further and higher education institutions that are currently or forecast to be in a Red or Orange weather warning area should remain closed tomorrow. This will allow for assessment of the impact of Storm Barra to take place. This includes counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Limerick,

  All schools currently or forecast to be in a Red or Orange weather alert area tomorrow should remain closed. The Department of Education says this will allow for assessment of the impact of Storm Barra to take place. This includes counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Limerick, Clare, Galway, Mayo and Wexford. Meanwhile,

  A boiled water notice has been issued for more than 3,500 households in Glenties and Ardara. The notice was issued to protect the health of people supplied by the Glenties – Ardara Public Water Supply. Irish Water says it cannot guarantee that the drinking water entering the supply is being properly disinfected, due to

  5,590 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed today. 505 Covid19 patients are in hospital, that’s down from 536 yesterday. 117 are in ICU, an increase of 7. Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan says the trajectory of the disease remains uncertain, and people eligible for a booster should not delay in getting it.

  Listen back to the main evening news, sport and obituaries for Tuesday December 7th:

  Letterkenny and Donegal Town COVID-19 Testing Centres will remain open as normal this evening. However due to the Orange Weather warning coming into place from 2am tomorrow morning, both COVID-19 Testing Centres will remain closed until 1pm tomorrow Wednesday 8th December, in the interest of service user/staff safety. Please check www.hse.ie/stormbarra for updates on

There’s been a crash in Strabane.  Motorists are asked to avoid the Victoria Road, Ballymagorry following the two vehicle collision which happened at around 3pm Diversions are in place, police are asking people to seek an alternative route for their journey.

  1,658 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in the North in the last 24 hours. There were five additional covid related deaths. There are 317 patients in hospital being treated for the disease in hospital in Northern Ireland, with 35 in ICU.

  The number of people on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment dropped in the past week, despite new restrictions on the hospitality sector. The benefit is reopened for those who’ve lost their jobs in the latest measures today. Just over 53,000 people are in receipt of PUP this week – a three percent drop on last

  As storm Barra approaches, weather warnings have been issued across the country. Donegal is set to escape the worst of the storm, with a yellow wind warning in place for the county, but the county council’s Emergency Response team is monitoring the situation. Winds will strengthen this evening and tonight, with an Orange Wind

  An investigation is continuing after a large sum of cash was stolen from a vehicle on Arranmore Island last weekend. The incident occurred outside a home at Upper Plough between 6pm Friday 3rd December and lunchtime Saturday 4th December. Gardaí said that a local man, who lives with a disability, discovered his van was

  Gardaí have reissued an appeal for information over an arson attack last week. The incident happened in Abbey Park in Manorcunningham shortly after 5am on Friday morning. The fire brigade were on the scene quickly to extinguish the flames enough for Gardaí to carry out forensic examinations successfully. Anyone with information is being urged

  Work has been completed in replacing old water mains in Bundoran. This is the second phase of water mains replaced in Bundoran in most recent times, with approximately 1.4km of water mains replaced last year as part of the Donegal Countywide Water Mains Rehabilitation Project. The water mains replaced were prone to frequent leakage

Latest INMO figures show there were 59 people awaiting beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning, 19 of them on ED trolleys. In Sligo, there were 36 admitted patients without beds, 21 of them in the ED. The Letterkenny figure is the second highest in the state, and with a combined figure of 95, the