The HSE’s specialist emergency department team is to be appointed to Letterkenny University Hospital to assess and address the ongoing problems at the hospital’s emergency department. The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has asked the HSE’s CEO, Bernard Gloster, to assign the specialist team. According to Donegal minister Charlie McConalogue, it will mean hospital management […]
Hospital crisis: Health Minister confirms plans to visit LUH
The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly is to meet with Donegal GP and hospital consultant representatives to discuss their ongoing concerns over patient services in the emergency department at Letterkenny University Hospital. The Minister has also accepted an invitation from his cabinet colleague Minister Charlie McConalogue to visit Letterkenny University Hospital. Minister McConalogue said he […]
Annie Shaw: ‘I’m lucky to have so many good friends’
By Diarmaid Doherty FOR someone who loves a chat, and the company of her many friends, it’s probably just as well that Annie Shaw lives just a short walk from the shops and busy spots around Letterkenny. The Ros Suilighe resident admits that she’s not as quick on her feet now as she once was, […]
Childcare centre impacted by Mica
STAFF at a Letterkenny childcare facility are being forced to urgently find a new premises because their current building has mica. Management at Letterkenny Community Childcare Centre have launched a major fundraising drive after their Lisnennan building was detected as having 35 per cent mica. They are now on the look-out for a new site or a […]
‘Park and Ride’ system would ease Letterkenny’s traffic problems – Cllr
A Letterkenny councillor has said the town’s ongoing traffic problems could be eased if a ‘park and ride’ system was introduced for daily commuters. Lengthening traffic queues at different locations around the town have long caused frustration for road-users, with the problems at their worst during the morning and evening rush times. But Cllr. Donal […]
‘I never got to say goodbye’ – Letterkenny woman was in ICU when her husband died
By Diarmaid Doherty MAUREEN Shiels doesn’t remember the day her husband Hugo died in Letterkenny University Hospital. She never got to say goodbye. Advertisement As her husband of 54 years spent his final hours in this world lying in a hospital ward, Maureen was in a coma in the same hospital’s ICU department. She was […]
Vaping a massive problem in Donegal schools – claim
SECONDARY school principals in Donegal are to be asked to have their say in a discussion on the growing trend of ‘vaping’ among young people in the county. The practice is now widespread among teenagers all over the country and at a meeting in Donegal this week, it was claimed that more and more young […]
Milford pupils meet Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern at Good Friday event
Pupils from Loreto Community School in Milford today attended a special event in Belfast organised to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. They got to meet a host of political figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at the Building a Better Peace event at Queen’s […]