Ciaran Mullooly

Midlands Correspondent

Rebecca Osgood Daly (second from the left) with her family and the Roscommon football manager Anthony Cunningham

Concerns over vaccine priorities for transplantees

The Irish Kidney Association has written to the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, appealing for transplant recipients and people on dialysis to be given urgent priority for Covid-19 vaccination.

Coronavirus • 24 Jan 21

A blanket of snow in Connemara (Pic: Jimmy Norman)

Gardaí urge caution on icy roads as west hit by snow

Road conditions are treacherous in many parts of the west due to heavy snow and ice.

Regional • 24 Jan 21

Residents say Lough Funshinagh has not reduced in levels for a number of years now

Heavy rain raises fears of flooding in Co Roscommon

Residents in the Lough Funshinagh area of Co Roscommon have said heavy rain overnight is now threatening to flood a number of houses in the area.

Connacht • 19 Jan 21

Eleven deaths at Co Laois nursing home in two weeks

Another elderly resident has died with Covid-19 at Droimnín Nursing Home in Stradbally, Co Laois, bringing to 11 the number of deaths at the centre in the last two weeks.

Leinster • 18 Jan 21

Groups were 'promised' by Minister Eamon Ryan that funding was there, said Barry Cowen

Minister warned jobs plan will collapse without funding

The Minister for Climate Change, Eamon Ryan, has been told the Government's €100 million Just Transition plan to create thousands of jobs in the midlands will collapse within weeks, unless €6 million of support funding from the ESB is released to employers and community groups.

Regional • 14 Jan 21

Pat and Attracta Murray's house was badly damaged after a fire broke out in the hot press

€60k raised to help couple rebuild fire-damaged home

A 90-year-old Westmeath man whose home was destroyed by fire has thanked the public after over €40,000 was raised in the last 10 days to help him and his wife get back into their home.

Regional • 14 Jan 21

4,559 babies were born in Castlepollard but 247 of the infants died

Claims of abuse and overcrowding at Castlepollard home

Several women told the commission of investigation into a mother-and-baby home in the midlands that they witnessed nuns leaving the hospital with up to ten dead babies in shoe boxes and bringing them for burial on the grounds nearby.

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 12 Jan 21

Two Droimnín residents passed away over the weekend

Six deaths at Co Laois nursing home in last 7 days

Six people have died at a nursing home in Co Laois within the last seven days and 52 more residents there have been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Leinster • 11 Jan 21

Ten Roscommon towns have already been joined by Westport, Newbridge and other villages

Campaign to keep Christmas lights on to lift spirits

A Roscommon councillor is leading a national campaign to encourage towns and villages to leave their Christmas street lights on until the end of January, in a bid to lift spirits during the latest wave of the pandemic.

Ireland • 07 Jan 21

Leading ICU doctor reflects on impact of Covid pandemic

One of the country's top Intensive Care doctors has said she does not want to see thousands of people returning to work in crowded offices in the years to come - because the Covid-19 pandemic has proven so many of them could work safely and comfortably from home.

Coronavirus • 28 Dec 20