Kenny calls for speeding up of visas for health workers
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says it is now taking 10 to 12 weeks to process visa applications for much-needed healthcare workers coming here from outside the EU. Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny says the applications could have been processed in 48 hours last March. He says the delay in processing Atypical…
Obituaries, Thursday, January 14th, 10am
Ocean FM has been informed of the following deaths: Margaret McGowan, Ballymote Mary Gallagher MacBride, Donegal and Achill Caoimhín (Kevin) Casey, Charlestown Trisha Glynn, Ballintogher Brian Curtin, Sligo and Kilkenny Margaret McGowan, Cuan…
Fears of more and sicker patients in hospitals in coming days
136 new Covid cases were reported for Donegal yesterday evening with 14 in Sligo and fewer than 5 in Leitrim. There were 66 new cases in Cavan. Throughout the country, there are 1,770 patients with the virus in hospitals, with 176 in ICU. Yesterday saw the second highest number of…
Vaccination preparations ‘a disaster and a disgrace,’ insists MacSharry
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is lashing out at government over what he says is its failure to prepare adequately for Covid vaccinations, describing it as ‘a disaster and a disgrace.’ In the Dail yesterday evening, Fianna Fail Deputy Marc MacSharry said people in the north who were not in nursing homes…
Vaccine being given to Sligo hospital staff ‘as quickly as it arrives’
The manager of Sligo University Hospital says staff are being given the Covid vaccine as quickly as the vaccine arrives. Grainne McCann adds that as well as hospital staff, those working in the community services area are also being vaccinated. The first vaccines arrived to the hospital last week, with…
Vaccinations given to ambulance centre staff in Ballyshannon
The roll-out of the Covid vaccine took place yesterday at the headquarters of the National Ambulance Service’s regional headquarters in Ballyshannon. The NAS’s north west division primarily covers the areas of south Donegal and parts of north Leitrim and north Sligo. It includes the National Emergency Operations Centre where emergency…
MacSharry says Ireland should do side-deals to get more vaccines
A Sligo/Leitrim TD has called on the Health Minister to do a side-deal to get greater quantities of the COVID vaccine. It’s after Germany broke out of the EU’s combined purchase effort to get more doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Ireland is getting 1.1 per cent of an agreed group…