Category: Old Donegal

On the Score this week Oisin Kelly looks ahead to Finn Harps away to St Pats and Derry City hosting Sligo Rvs in the Premier Division with Keith Cowan .

Brett McGinty talks boxing ahead of his fourth professional fight this weekend in Coventry while in Gaelic Games there’s previews of the Donegal Junior Final and the Senior and Intermediate deciders in Tyrone.

Listen here:

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Watch Donegal Junior A & B Final Previews:

 

North Inishowen now has the highest Covid-19 incidence rate in the country.

The figures, which cover the 14 days up to last Monday November 8th, show increases in the Covid rate in all parts of the county bar the Donegal local electoral area.

The Covid rate in North Inishowen has jumped to 1993 with 338 new cases – twice the national average and the highest rate in Ireland.

South Inishowen recorded a jump too with the current rate 1064 and 238 new confirmed cases.

Milford saw an increase with the rate there now standing at 1242 and 171 new cases recorded.

The rate in Letterkenny has increased and is now 900 with 268 new cases detected.

Lifford/Stranorlar recorded a rate of 672 and 174 new cases in the latest date – also a rise.

There’s been a jump in the rate in Glenties – it now stands at 1141 and 273 new cases confirmed.

Donegal was the only local electoral area to buck the trend – it recorded a decreased rate of 638 and 188 new confirmed cases.

 

Listen back to the main evening news, sport, farming news and obituaries for Thursday November 11th:

Donegal’s Brett McGinty is back in the ring on Saturday night at Coventry’s Skydome Arena for his fourth professional fight.

Brett’s latest bout will be part of the undercard of the Shakan Pitters V Reece Cartwright WBC International Light Heavyweight title fight.

The St Johnston native is set for a busy few weeks with another fight scheduled in December.

Speaking with Oisin Kelly this week, Brett says himself and trainer Ricky Hatton are looking for further improvements:

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3,680 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported today.

543 patients are in hospital with the virus, down eight from yesterday.

97 Covid patients are in intensive care, up eight from yesterday.

According to the latest figures, the country’s 14-day incidence rate has risen to 952 per 100,000 people.

Meanwhile NPHET is advising people to continue to work from home if possible after its meeting this afternoon.

It’s also encouraging people to reduce their social contacts and stick to the advice on ventilation and face masks.

 

A motorist has been caught speeding through Barensmore Gap at 175KPH.

The Roads Policing Units from Donegal Town and Letterkenny had been conducting checkpoints and patrols last night at various locations when the incident occured.

The driver was arrested  and charged to appear in Court and the car was seized as it was not believed to be insured.

 

 

1462 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the north in the last 24 hours.

There have been six covid related deaths.

387 patients are being treated for the disease in hospitals in Northern Ireland , with 37 in ICU.

The North West 10k Charity Run & Walk is moving to a Monday for the 25th anniversary celebration with the special event set to take place on May 2nd, 2022 at 11 a.m. That’s a change from the traditional Bank Holiday Sunday afternoon start of 2 p.m.

The new date was formally agreed at a committee meeting on Wednesday evening in the Mount Errigal. The decision was taken primarily on health and safety grounds.

The North West 10k has raised €833,000 for over 30 charities since 1997.

This year’s charity event was a virtual event due to Covid and the 2020 run and walk did not go ahead at all due to the pandemic. However, a review of the previous couple of years found that a huge increase in vehicular traffic on the Sunday was posing additional risks to managing the race safely for runners and walkers. North West 10k Chairperson Neil Martin said that an analysis of running the event on the Bank Holiday Monday morning was carried out and clearly showed a lot less traffic on the routes around the town used by the organisers.

NW10K Neil Martin told Oisin Kelly he feels it is the right move by the committee:

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The Dail has heard that the Government is keen for the ‘Brandon’ report into sexual abuse in Ard Greine and the Sean O’Hare Unit in Stranorlar to be pubilshed.

The report examines abuse perpetrated on adults with intellectual disabilities at the care facilities run by the HSE over eight years and lists 108 instances up to 2011.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney was responding to questions in the Dail from Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Minister Coveney says families have already been through enough and they deserve to see the full unvarnished truth:

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The Taoiseach has said difficult details around the new Mica redress scheme will be dealt with in the coming weeks.

Proposals for a revised scheme are being worked on with reports a cap on redress is being considered.

A number of Government TDs have said they’ll consider their positions in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil if 100 percent redress isn’t delivered.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says it’s more complicated than that:

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