Category: Old Donegal

Farmers in Donegal have been included in a €7.4m LIFE on Machair project aimed at improving ecological conditions for breeding waders and pollinators.

The project seeks to improve the conservation condition of Ireland’s machair habitats and the ecological conditions for the species it supports by working positively with local farming communities.

EU funding worth over €5.7m has been made available for the project which will focus on nine Special Areas of Conservation and 4 Special Protection Areas in counties Donegal, Mayo and Galway.

Machair is a coastal habitat characterised by a plain of lime-rich, wind-blown sand that is unique to the north and west of Ireland and Scotland.

The Stormont Assembly has agreed a return to working from home.

Ministers in the North are making decisions to try to slow the spread of Covid-19 and prevent some sectors having to shut their doors.

Employers there were allowed to begin a gradual return to the office since September – but that’s been reversed.

The executive has finalised plans this morning, which also has a big emphasis on vaccine boosters and personal responsibility

There are 638 Covid patients in Irish hospitals today, 126 of them in intensive care.

Latest figures for Letterkenny University Hospital show 15 Covid patients being treated there, three of them in ICU.

Meanwhile, Westmeath has the highest rate of Covid-19 in the country.

Its 14-day incidence rate is 1,792 cases per 100,000 people.

Louth and Carlow also have rates of over 1,700.

The national rate is 1,266.

Donegal is 15th, with a rate of 1,165.

November 19, 2021; Manchester, New Hampshire, USA; Demetrius Andrade and Jason Quigley during their Matchroom Boxing bout at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, NH on November 19, 2021. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom.

Jason Quigley has had surgery on the broken jaw he suffered in his World title challenge last weekend.

The Donegal man confirmed the surgery was a success on social media and thanked everyone for there support.

Quigley lost in two rounds to Demetrius Andrade last Friday in New Hampshire with his hopes of causing an upset against the WBO middleweight champion shattered when the referee stopped the fight as Jason hit the canvas for a third time.

He suffered the injury in the first round after a big right hook from Andrade.

Surgery on my jaw was a success massive thank you the the doctors and nurses for doing such a great job and getting me treated so quick
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Thank you everybody for all the well wishes really so grateful for everybody’s support
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Time to rest, recover and heal. Peace out pic.twitter.com/7cx5efPXP3

— Jason Quigley (@jay_quigley) November 23, 2021

A Donegal garda is urging people to regularly check their bank balances online after revealing she was scammed this week.

On this morning’s Community Garda Slot, Garda Grainne Doherty said while she was checking her account last night, she noticed three transactions from her account, despite the fact that she has clicked no links or given her details to any suspect websites…………

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Significant damage has been caused to the front wall of a house in south Donegal.

Ballyshannon Gardaí are appealing for information in relation to the criminal damage incident that occurred at a residence on the Bogagh Rd., Carrick on Sunday last between 1pm and 2pm.

The damage was by a blue saloon style car between those times.

Two males were believed to have been in the car and it travelled in the direction of Carrick village following the incident.

Gardai are appealing to anybody who may have travelled on the Bogagh road to Carrick between those times and who may have observed the car in question or may have captured it on dash cam footage to make contact them in Ballyshannon.

 

A number of youths are wanted in connection with a window smashing incident in Lifford.

It happaned at The Diamond, Lifford on Friday shortly before 7.10pm.

Four youths in dark clothing were in that area when one of them threw an object at a window of a building and broke the window.

The youths then took off on foot in the direction of Lifford bridge.

Gardai are appealing to anybody who seen these youths in the area to contact them.

Gardai are particularly appealing to anybody who may have captured these youths on their dash cam footage to make make contact with them in Letterkenny.

Letterkenny University Hospital was once again the second most overcrowded in the country this morning, with 48 people awaiting beds, 13 of them on Emergency Department trolleys.

That’s 17% of the national figure of 288.

Today’s INMO figures also show in Sligo, there were 13 people awaiting beds, nine of them in the ED.

That’s a combined North West total of 61 admitted patients awaiting beds, higher than the 58 recorded in Limerick, the most overcrowded hospital in the country.

 

 

It’s hoped that a pay increase for County Councillors will attract more candidates into local politics.

The pay, known as a ‘representational payment’ has increased by just under 40% to more than 26,000 euro a year.

Cabinet approved the increase earlier this year which took into account the recommendations of an independent review in 2020.

Figures show that almost 10% of representatives who were elected in 2019 have since resigned citing financial and family commitments.

Cllr Nicholas Crossan says the increase is important for a number of reasons:

 

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The Garda Representative Association says the number of attacks on Gardaí has risen significantly in recent years.

The organisation, which is holding it’s annual conference in Kerry, wants mandatory sentences introduced for those convicted of assaulting officers.

Vice President of the GRA, Brendan O’Connor, says it’s having an impact on the number of Gardaí available for duty:

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