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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘No accountability’ in Mother and Baby Home report
A Sligo councillor whose his late father was taken as a baby from his mother to an orphanage in Sligo says there is no accountability in the Report into Mother and baby Homes for what…
36 Covid-19 patients in Sligo University Hospital today; 162 staff off work
Today in Sligo University Hospital, there are 36 Covid patients. That’s at the same time as 162 hospital staff are off work. Hospital Manager Grainne McCann and Respiratory Consultant Dr Katherine Finan have been telling…
