Obituaries, Friday 28th September, 8am
Ocean FM has been informed of the following death: Berney McMorrow, Tullaghan Berney McMorrow, Augharrow, Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim. Funeral Mass in St. Aidan’s Church, Kinlough this morning at 11am with burial afterwards in St. Aidan’s Cemetery, Kinlough. Ar Dheis Dé go Raibh Sé.
Average trolley-wait in Letterkenny could be solved by opening empty ward
A Donegal TD says it’s nothing short of a scandal that a ward with 19 beds remains closed at Letterkenny University Hospital despite the ongoing trolley crisis. Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty raised the issue in the Dail today. It’s a timely motion considering there are 27 people waiting on trolleys…
Factories crippling farmers by slashing lamb prices while supermarket prices increase
A Leitrim IFA member says the price farmers are getting for lamb will put sheep farmers in Leitrim out of business. Vice Chairperson of the IFA’s sheep committee Kevin Comiskey says prices being paid to farmers are down 40%. That’s despite the price in supermarkets being up about 34%. He…
Surf Centre of Excellence to become a flagship project of the North West
A County Sligo coastal village’s hopes of becoming the location for a major surfing flagship project along the Wild Atlantic Way has been given a major boost. It’s after Failte Ireland’s decision to give a grant for more than a million euro for the development of a Surf Centre of…
Obituaries, Thursday 27th September, 5pm
Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths: Berney McMorrow, Tullaghan Berney McMorrow, Augharrow, Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim. Peacefully at Sligo University Hospital in his 94th year. Reposing at the home of his son Micheál, Augharrow today until 6pm. House private after 6pm this evening please. Removal this evening to arrive…
Local TDs’ refusal to support cancer warning labelling on alcohol products is condemned
Sligo-Leitrim TDs, Eamon Scanlon and Tony McLoughlin have been accused of sidelining women and children by failing to back Government plans to introduce cancer warnings on alcohol products. Green Party representative, Leslie O’Hora, says the TDs cannot seriously criticise the lack of breast cancer services in the North West while…
Spoil your vote and support Gemma O’Doherty for President, urges Donegal campaign
A campaign group in Donegal is calling on people to spoil their vote in the Presidential Election and indicate their support for Gemma O’Doherty in so doing. They claim the undemocratic selection process has denied Ms. O’Doherty to opportunity to run for President, as campaigner Michael Mooney outlines