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Businesses in Ballyshannon are approaching Brexit with a wait and see attitude. With the British Prime Minister not expected to implement Article 50 until March at the earliest and the whole process expected to take a number of years, some businesses don’t see the point in worrying just yet. However,…

Fianna Fáil claims people’s lives will be lost because of the hospital overcrowding crisis. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation say there were 601 patients on trolleys earlier today – the third highest figure so far this year. Fifty of those patients are on trolleys at Letterkenny and Sligo University…

There are eight more people waiting for a bed in hospitals in the North West today. Yesterday, the figure was 42; today it’s 50. 28 of these are in Letterkenny University Hospital, five more than yesterday. In Sligo University Hospital, there are 22 people waiting, three more than yesterday. In…

Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths:   Angela Chrystal, Sligo Ronald Callaghan, Sligo Denis Mc Brien, Longwood, Co. Meath and Ballymote Joe Roarke, Birmingham and Coolaney Sarah Gallagher, Kinlough Joseph Gallagher, Ballyshannon Margaret Hanbury, Castlerea       .   Angela Chrystal, nee Monaghan, Ashbrook, Pearse Road,…

A Sligo Leitrim TD has told the Dail that insurance companies are ‘ripping off the Irish people.’ Fianna Fail Deputy Eamon Scanlon made the comment in the Dail yesterday afternoon when he asked for an update on promised legislation in the area. Taoieach Enda Kenny told him there would be…