Latest: Four Covid-19 related deaths and 57 new cases


The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that a total of 4 people with Covid-19 have died. There have now been a total 1,608 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland. As of 11am Sunday 24 May the HPSC has been notified of 57 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 24,639 […]


LATEST: 13 deaths, 76 confirmed new Covid-19 cases


The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that a total of 13 people with COVID-19 have died. There have now been a total 1,604* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland. As of 11am Saturday 23 May the HPSC has been notified of 76 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 24,582 […]


Fiddling in the time of coronavirus


MORE than one hundred fiddlers around the globe marked World Fiddle Day on Saturday last with the sound of Donegal tunes. While musical celebrations were low key this year, though due to public health measures to limit the spread of Covid-19, musicians took the time to offer up some tunes from their living rooms. Over […]


Family fight for life changing treatment to be made available


A DONEGAL family, who lost two relatives within weeks of each other to the hereditary condition Amyloidosis, are calling for a new life changing drug to be made available in Ireland. Letterkenny sisters Evelyn Cunningham and Bernie Cannon lost their mother Evelyn on June 3, 2017 aged 62,  just eight weeks after their great-aunt Martha […]


Dig starts to find remains of Red Hugh O’Donnell


AN Archaeological dig  has started in Spain in the hope of finding the 400 year-old burial place of Irish Chieftain Red Hugh O’Donnell. In the City of Valladolid in the north west of the country the archaeologists first have to find the old Convent of San Francisco and within that what was known as the […]


Sixth consecutive day of under 100 new confirmed cases


The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that a total of 12 people with Covid-19 have died. There have now been a total 1,583 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland. As of 11am Thursday 21 May the HPSC has been notified of 76 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 24,391 […]