Fianna Fail says lives will be lost due to overcrowding crisis
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…
Sligo TD fears the UK is using Ireland as a ‘pawn’ on Brexit
A Sligo Leitrim TD says he fears Ireland is being used as a ‘pawn’ by the UK to ensure a better deal after Brexit. It emerged at a Brexit seminar in Leitrim yesterday that tariffs as high as 42% could be imposed on imports and exports to the UK from…
Tributes paid to late Dermot Gallagher
Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin is one of a number of people to pay tribute to the late Dermot Gallagher today. Mr. Gallagher, who was born in Carrick-on-Shannon in county Leitrim was a former Secretary General at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United States, and many…
Councillor says mobile cath lab no longer enough to serve needs of patients
A fixed cardio catherisation lab service at Sligo University Hospital could serve over three hundred thousand people were it to open. That’s according to Sligo councillor Rosaleen O’Grady who wants an update on the provision of a full time lab in Sligo. Since 2000 there has been a mobile lab…
Sligo/Leitrim TD proposes Donegal & Cavan be standalone constituencies
A Sligo/Leitrim Dail deputy is proposing to the Constituencies Commission that the counties of Donegal and Cavan be reunited for the purposes of general elections. Fianna Fail TD Marc MacSharry is proposing that Sligo/Leitrim should be one constitiency with four seats; that Cavan/Monaghan be one constituency with five seats; and…
Calls for Fianna Fail senator to resign Seanad seat
A Donegal Councillor is calling for Fianna Fail Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill to resign completely. The Donegal Senator resigned the Fianna Fail party whip after he was found by the Standards in Public Office Commission to be in breach of ethics laws. The findings published last week found that he…
Watchdog rules Donegal senator breached ethic laws
The public ethics watchdog says a Fianna Fail Senator knowingly breached ethics laws – by claiming travel expenses from two different bodies for the same trips. The breaches were committed by Brían Ó Domhnaill after he claimed expenses from both Donegal County Council and Údarás na Gaeltachta for three trips…