North West Today

The numbers of people in hospitals with the latest strain of flu have soared in the past week and there are warnings that cases will peak during Christmas week. Consultant in Public Health Medicine with the HSE West, Dr Anthony Breslin, has been describing how people are being affected and has urged people to get vaccinated

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Donal Kavanagh was awarded a Silver Medal at the National Bravery Awards ceremony last week. He was honoured for rescuring four members of his family at a fire in his grandparent's house at Kilglass in West Sligo back in December 1991 - and he's been outlining what happened on that night

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Aontú's Donegal representative has condemnded as abhorrent a Government-backed socal media campaign warning of the dangers of burning solid fuel in open fires and stoves. Mary T Sweeney says the ad shows disregard for those struggling to heat their homes and dealing with the rise in the cost of living and says 'the homes of Donegal need to be warm'

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The Sligo BID organisation has supported the decision again this year by Sligo County Council not to provide free parking in the town's car parks for the Christmas period. They say the initiative, introduced in 2022, was being abused - meanwhile an environmental group has urged local authorities not to provide free Christmas parking in towns

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The GAA's National Demographics Commitee has produced a report looking at ways to tackling declining rural population numbers and its impact on GAA clubs. Leitrim councillor and former Chairperson of Leitrim GAA County Board Enda Stenson is a member of the Demographics Committee

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Ireland's Eurovision boycott, our latest financial allocation to Ukraine, the shelving of the Sligo Greenway, waiting times at Sligo Hospital ED, the FF Presidential Election review and more are up for discussion on this week's Friday Panel. Guests are Sligo councillor Edel McSharry and Sinn Fein TD Martin Kenny

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Sligo councillor Joe Queenan says his heart remains with Fianna Fail and he is hopeful of a return to the party. 10 years ago this week, Cllr Queenan resigned from the party after the broadcast of Prime Time Investigates TV programme into the lobbying of councillors in the planning process

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Former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan has said he fully supports the RTE decision not to participate in next year's contest because of Israel's inclusion. McGettigan was a number of musicians and artists who had campaigned for such a boycott because of what has been happening in Gaza

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Those in support of the development of the Sligo Greenway between Collooney and Bellaghy insist they have not given up hope on it progressing, despite the announcement this week by Sligo Co Co that the project was being shelved. And there's been criticism of the change of mind by Iarnrod Eireann in not allowing the Greenway to be developed along the disused Western Rail Corridor. Brendan Quinn and John Mulligan discuss

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David and his wife have been staying in a Direct Provision Centre in Donegal for the past 6 months having come to Ireland from Nigeria. As asylum seekers, the can't work, but David insists they both have a valuable contribution to make to our economy if they could work - he as a project director, his wife as a doctor. They are among a group of asylum seekers that the Abolish Direct Provision Ireland group are seeking an amnesty for

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