Category: Old Donegal

Watch: Former Rovers player Abankwah on move to Italy

A former underage Letterkenny Rovers player is dreaming of making it in Italian football’s top tier.

James Abankwah says he’s lost for words after signing for Serie A side, Udinese.

The 18-year old defender has joined from St Patrick’s Athletics and will remain with the League of Ireland side until July, as he completes his Leaving Cert.

It’s believed Pat’s have secured a record six figure fee for a League of Ireland player.

James was with Rovers in 2011 before heading to Cherry Orchard and then St Pats.

He spoke with the St Pats club media after the signing:

Delighted to have signed for Serie A side @Udinese_1896, thanks to everyone who has helped me over the years and also to @TamasByrne & @JammaEast82 For getting this deal sorted.All glory to God# GIG pic.twitter.com/9SOC69Z42T

— JamesBright (@JamesAbankwah04) January 26, 2022

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Mica Scheme will be rolled out ‘as quickly as possible’

 

The Taoiseach says Government will work to ensure the Mica Redress Scheme is operational as quickly and as effectively as possible.

It’s emerged in recent weeks that despite being unveiled to much fan fare, affected homeowners won’t be able to access the scheme for many months yet.

Donegal Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn told the Dail that the legislation needs to be brought before the house as a matter of urgency.

While not confirming a date as to when the scheme would be rolled out, Micheal Martin says Government wants to do right by families:

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‘School profiling’ may be used in hybrid leaving scenario

Controversial ‘school profiling’ may have to be used if a decision is taken to opt for a hybrid leaving certificate this year.

A decision is expected soon in relation to what form the state exams will take this year, but according to the Irish Times, the Government has been advised that profiling may be needed to counteract grade inflation.

The examination of a schools historical performance had been under consideration in 2020, but was dropped after claims it could penalise students attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

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Calls for passport office to open 7 days a week

There are calls for the passport office to open 7 days a week.

The Irish Examiner reports that the office is set to be flooded with up to 1.7 million applications in the weeks and months ahead as families scramble to book foreign holidays.

There’s already a backlog of 113 thousand passports in the system because of disruption caused by covid lockdowns.

Fine Gael Senator Garret Ahearn has called for the office to be opened 7 days a week until what he called the passport ’emergency’ is over.

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Lack of broadband in rural Donegal is unacceptable – Flynn

The Seanad has been told that giving people the right to ask if they can work from home is meaningless in many rural areas where the rollout of broadband is still a long way off.

Independent Senator Eileen Flynn said Donegal and other rural counties should be prioritised in the National Broadband Plan roll-out, but instead, the county is one where almost nothing has happened so far.

Senator Flynn said a decade after then Minister Pat Rabbitte described broadband as the ‘rural electrification of the 21st century’, most of rural Ireland has been left behind……..

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Senator Flynn’s full contribution

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Council to explore funding avenues for Moville & Greencastle

Donegal County Council is to examine whether regeneration funding could be secured for Moville and Greencastle.

The issue was raised at a recent Municipal District meeting by Cllr Martin Farren, who says the success of other towns in Inishowen and further afield can be repeated.

He says while they are separate towns in their own right, it makes sense to consider Moville and Greencastle together:


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49 Covid related deaths recorded over past 7 days

49 Covid deaths have been reported in Ireland over the past week.

It brings the total number since the pandemic began to 6,136.

There has also been a further 10,414 cases of the virus reported in the past 24 hours.

5,605 are positive PCRs, while a further 4,809 were positive antigen tests logged on the HSE portal.

739 Covid patients are hospitalised, of which 74 are in ICU.

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4,383 new Covid cases in NI as number of infected patients at LUH falls to 25

4,383 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in the North in the past 24 hours.

There have been nine additional covid-related deaths.

395 patients are being treated for the disease in hospitals in Northern Ireland, with 22 in ICU.

In the Republic, 74 patients with Covid-19 are being treated in ICU today – the lowest total since November.

Overall across hospitals, there’s 739 patients with the virus, which is a drop of 85 since yesterday.

The total in hospital has fallen by 18 per cent in the past week.

Latest figures for Letterkenny University Hospital show 25 infected patients being treated there, one in intensive Care.

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