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A rain and thunderstorm warning has been issued for the entire country for the next 24 hours. The status yellow alert is in place until midday tomorrow. Met Eireann says scattered heavy downpours and thunderstorms can be expected. There’s also a risk of localised flooding where the rain is heaviest.

Clar funding totalling €100,000 is to be shared by two projects in Donegal. A sensory space and outdoor barbeque area is to be developed within the Bruckless Community Park, while a public allotments and a community garden are to be developed at Ray Community Centre. Each received €50,000. The funding has been welcomed by Minister

Letterkenny’s Port Road is to close for major resurfacing works over the next two to three nights. The road will close to the public between Station Roundabout and Polestar Roundabout tonight and tomorrow, with a provision to extend the closure into Friday night. Depending on progress on Wednesday and Thursday, Donegal County Council say the

Former DUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster is to leave the Assembly by the end of this month. In a statement last night, she indicated the process to select her successor in the Fermanagh South Tyrone constituency has already begun. It’s expected that Deborah Erskine, a Fermanagh and Omagh District councillor and former DUP

The HSE has suspended walk-in Covid-19 testing at all centres across the country. The health service says the decision has been taken to “reduce queues” after demand increased by 35 percent in the past 48 hours. It says its online self-referrals system remains open, and is encouraging people to book through the portal at www.hse.ie

1,470 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been reported this evening in the Republic of Ireland. The five-day average of cases here has fallen to 1,382 – which 16 per cent less than a week ago. Counties Monaghan, Donegal, Cavan and Leitrim have the highest 14-day incidence rates in the country currently. 367 Covid patients

The number of people receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment in the Republic of Ireland is now just over 140,000, as the rate of the payment is set to be cut from today onwards. In County Donegal, 4,102 people are now receiving the PUP payment, down 2.7% on the previous week’s figures. The top two rates

27 patients are awaiting a bed in Letterkenny University Hospital today, as the lastest INMO trolley watch figures show LUH is now the fifth-most overcrowded hospital in the Republic today. 21 patients are waiting for a bed on wards in LUH, the highest figure in the country, and unchanged from yesterday’s figure. Meanwhile 6 patients

Just over 55,000 students have received their CAO round 1 offers this afternoon, as points requirements across the country have risen again. At LYIT, while many course options stayed similar to 2020, such as Law and Computer Science – increases were seen in the high-demand area of nursing. For Level 8 General Nursing, the points

Gardai in Buncrana say the West End Road is now open again to traffic, after a brief closure earlier this afternoon due to an “occurance”. Gardaí did not provide a reasoning relating to the road closure, but they say that it is now open to the public once again.

We’ve been receiving reports of a dead cow on the N15 Castlefinn Road outside Lifford this morning following an accident. Motorists are being advised to slow down. Gardai are at the scene.

The new COVID-19 vaccination satellite centre in Burtonport will open on Thursday, with Saolta saying it will operate on at least one day a week after that, with more sessions being offered subject to demand, The facility is located in St Columba’s Community Centre. Saolta say the Burtonport centre will be staffed and managed by

Donegal County Museum is taking part in ‘Museums Now’, an all-island initiative of special events which will take place in museums all over the island this weekend. The initiative is intended to encourage visitors back into museums and celebrate their opening once again, after having been closed to visitors for many months. At the centrepiece

1,144 new cases of Covid 19 have been confirmed in the Republic this evening. As of 8am this morning, there were 384 Covid 19 patients in hospital, 59 of them in ICU. North of the border, 1,764 positive Covid cases have been reported today, with nine additional Covid-related deaths. 407 patients were being treated for

A body has been recovered from the water at Ballywhoriskey in Fanad. Gardai have confirmed the body was recovered earlier today, and brought to Letterkenny University Hospital, where a post mortem will take place at a later date. Enquiries are ongoing, but gardai say foul play is not suspected at this time.  

  The importance of the Co-Lab centre at Letterkenny Institute of Technology is being highlighted as the college prepares for the new academic year and a return to more normal activities and timetables. The CoLab project began in the early 80s as a small incubation centre. It is now the largest business centre in the

The rate of Covid-19 in Monaghan is over three times the national average. Latest Health Protection Surveillance Centre figures covering the 14 days up to midnight on last Thursday show Monaghan’s 14-day incidence rate was just under 1,500 cases per 100,000 people. Donegal, Cavan and Leitrim were the next worst-affected counties, with an incidence rate

Social enterprises in Donegal are set to benefit from almost €50,000 in additional Government funding, following an announcement by the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys. Just over €46,000 will be allocated to local authorities in Donegal to distribute to social enterprise groups, with the goal of the funding to facilitate the purchase