There were 412 patients on a trolley at Letterkenny University Hospital this month. According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the number of admitted patients without a bed at the hospital in March is down 22% compared to the same period in 2023. A total of 9,856 patients had to wait on trollies at […]
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Four men arrested in Derry this week have been charged with a number of drug related offences. The men aged, 20, 25 and 54 were arrested on Wednesday following the search of a property in the Strathfoyle area. They are due to appear before Omagh Magistrates Court tomorrow.
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Clarity is needed about the status of Good Friday. Today is not a public holiday, but while many people are working, others enjoy a day’s leave at the discretion of their employers. The Labour Party says it’s time to end the uncertainty, by making Good Friday an official and permanent public holiday for all.
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Police in Northern Ireland have charged a 61 year old man with non-recent sexual offences. A 57 year old woman’s also been charged with aiding and abetting additional offences. Both are due in court in Newry next month.
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An Garda Síochána are advising citizens to take care whilst socialising and traveling this Easter bank holiday weekend. They are urging people to drink alcohol responsibly and to not drive whilst under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. They advise to ensure that cars are locked and parked securely in well lit areas, with
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In North Inishowen, Sinn Fein have selected Toni Devine as their second local election candidate for the area. Ms Devine is based in Kinnagoe Bay and has worked on a wide range of community campaigns in Donegal and the Northwest over the years. She says she will listen to the people about what they need
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Ireland has the third highest number of deaths on rural roads in the EU. That’s according to a new report from the European Transport Safety Council, which finds more than two thirds of all deaths happen outside motorways and built-up areas. 67% of all road deaths between 2020 and 2022 in Ireland were on rural
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Two more people have declared their intention to contest this year’s local elections in Donegal. Convoy woman Selina O’Donnell who is now living in West Donegal will run as an independent in the Glenties local electoral area. She says local business, the fishing industry and rural services will be some of the issues she will
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People are being urged to stay away from hospital emergency departments unless absolutely necessary this weekend. The HSE is instead asking the public to consider all other options like pharmacies, out of hours GP services and minor injury clinics. Its expecting a busy bank holiday weekend at hospitals which are already ‘extremely busy’, but the
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The government is being accused of an unmitigated failure when it comes to solving the housing crisis. The Labour Leader says the latest homeless figures are not just statistics, but represent real lives devastated by government inaction. Department of Housing figures show 13,841 people were in emergency accommodation in February, which included 4,170 children. In
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The North West is entering a new economic chapter. That’s according to the North’s Economy Minister Conor Murphy who attended Derry Chamber of Commerce’s President’s Annual Lunch yesterday. Greg McCann, the Derry Chamber President says the new era will allow for greater cross border opportunities. He says education is vital for a thriving region:
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An Inishowen councillor is calling for more garda resources in Donegal, namely for the status of rural garda stations to be re-instated. Cllr Terry Crossan and Cllr Albert Doherty moved similar motions at a plenary meeting of Donegal County Council pertaining to the greater need for garda services in the area. Cllr Crossan highlighted the
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There’s been a 40% increase in the number of people attending the Emergency Department at Letterkenny University Hospital over the past four years. 35% of the people who attended the hospital’s ED required admission. From 2020 to 2023, a total of 178, 919 people presented at the Emergency Department at Letterkenny University Hospital. The number
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A major removal operation is underway at a beach in Glencolmcille, after a sperm whale was washed up on the shore. It’s estimated to be 70 foot long and it weighs 25 tonnes. It washed up at around 5:30pm on Saturday evening at ‘The Big Beach’. Amber Carr lives nearby and visited while the whale
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News, Sport, Farming News and Obituaries on Thursday March 28th:
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A man in Derry who was arrested for shop lifting yesterday was later found to have been wanted in relation to a number of similar incidents. After stealing from two stores, police made the discovery. PSNI received a report at 1:50pm yesterday afternoon of a man who had taken a number of high value meat
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All roads on the Donegal Winter Maintenance programme will be treated this evening from 6 o’clock. Donegal County Council are urging drivers to assume no road is ice free. The gritting route index as follows: 01: National Primary North 02: National Primary Central 03: National Primary South 04: Inishowen South 05: Inishowen East 06: Inishowen
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Three more communities have benefitted from the Uisce Eireann National Leakage Reduction programme. Dunfanaghy, Toberkeen and Straid from the replacement of almost 2km of old and damaged cast iron water mains. Works are also ongoing in Liscooley to Castlefinn, Pluck to Manorcunningham, and Coole Upper to Cranford. Uisce Eireann says these will ensure the provision
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13,841 people were registered as homeless in Ireland in February – a new record. The total figure includes 4,170 children. There was a 10% increase in the number of adults homeless in the North West, totalling to 173 , 70 of them in Donegal. The North West seen 22 families without a home last month,
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Two services in Donegal are to benefit after Justice Minister Helen McEntee today confirmed details of additional funding for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence services. Donegal Rape Crisis Centre receives just over €142,000, and Donegal Womens Refuge receives an extra €59,000. It’s part of a €6.3 million national funding package which sees 43 groups around
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The Nine Til Noon is broadcast live weekdays from 9am to 12noon. Here you can listen back to a Podcast of Thursday’s show: As tomorrow is Good Friday, we have our panel in a day early, with Donal Kavanagh joined by Cllr Ciaran Brogan, Mary Harte and Grainne Hines. We discuss Simon Harris’s imminent nomination
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Heavy rain has led to flooding in parts of Donegal this afternoon. The Manor Roundabout outside Letterkenny has been impacted with traffic down to one lane. Motorists are urged to take care on the roads with rain expected to continue for much of the afternoon.
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Almost 165,000 people visited OPW sites in Donegal last year. There has been an 11% rise in the number of people travelling to Donegal’s OPW owned sites. They are Doe Castle, Donegal Castle, Glebe House and Gallery, Grianán of Aileach and Newmills Corn and Flax. Figures from the Office of Public Works show Donegal Castle
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The need for the restoration of day services at Carndonagh Community Hospital is back in the spotlight this week. Councillor Albert Doherty welcomed a working group meeting taking place to develop a schedule of potential accommodation and to prioritise services within the grounds of Carndonagh Community Hospital. At a meeting of the Regional Health Forum this
Buncrana man Adrian McMyler has thrown his hat into the ring to contest this year’s local elections. He will run in the Buncrana local electoral area as an independent. Mr McMyler says through his community work it is clear that Buncrana and South Inishowen need a new independent candidate.
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Four men have been arrested after drugs were seized during searches in Derry. Police conducted a search of a property in The Old Fort area of Strathfoyle last evening and a quantity of Class A and B Drugs were seized along with a sum of cash. The men, aged 20, 25 and 54 were arrested
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Donegal County Council’s Fianna Fail Whip believes the difficult task for Simon Harris as he prepares to take on the role of Taoiseach will be gaining the trust of his own party. The current Minister for Further and Higher Education was confirmed as the new Fine Gael leader at the weekend. He’s expected to be
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Gardai have seized a number of items today as part of an ongoing investigation after packages containing over €4 million worth of cocaine washed up in Donegal last year. This morning Donegal Gardaí assisted by Louth Gardaí have carried out searches at a number of locations in Dundalk. Items of potential evidential value to the
Over €267,000 in funding has been announced to develop and upgrade nine outdoor recreation projects in Donegal. It’s part of a €4.1 million fund unveiled by the Minister for Rural and Community Development today. Donegal County Council, the Inishowen Development Partnership and the Donegal Local Development Company will receive a share of the funds for
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The 100% Redress Party has announced another local election candidate. Joy Beard will contest June’s elections for the party in the Buncrana electoral area. She has been a defective concrete block campaigner for over seven years and was one of the co-founders of the Redress Focus Groups. Ms Beard says while the defective block crisis
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A car has been seized in Donegal after the driver was suspected of having a fraudulent driving licence and insurance disk. On Tuesday, while on patrol the Letterkenny Roads Policing Unit were alerted to a vehicle having no insurance. The car was subsequently stopped and the documents inspected and it emerged they were fraudulent. The
A man in his 20s has been killed in a road crash in Co Roscommon. He was driving a car which was involved in a crash with a lorry on the Athlone Road at Newtown at 10pm last night. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. The road is closed for a
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Prayers have been offered for a Donegal woman and her two daughters killed in a road crash on Tuesday. 47 year old Una Bowden and her daughters, 14 year old Ciara and 9 year old Saoirse, died when the car they were in hit a truck on the N17 in Co. Mayo. They were remembered
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The HSE are asking the public to use all care options available to them over the Easter weekend. They are concerned that emergency departments could become overwhelmed over the next few days as staff take holidays. Officials say any non urgent injuries can be dealt with through GPs, injury units or out of hour services.
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Barnardos is warning Government that homeless children can’t develop appropriately without a home of their own. It’s asking the Department of Housing to take immediate action to support more than 4 thousand kids without a home in Ireland. 1 in 5 families in emergency accommodation have been living in unstable conditions for more than 2
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An Inishowen councillor is calling on the Housing Minister to review the criteria for the ancillary grant applications for the Defective Concrete Block Scheme. The grant awards up to €15,000 when invoices are provided for costs that covers alternative accommodation while the home undergoes remediation. However, Cllr Martin McDermott, Chairperson of the Enhanced Defective Concrete
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Frustrations grew at a plenary meeting of Donegal County Council this week as it could not be confirmed how many bus shelters had been erected in Donegal in the past eight years. Cllr Nicholas Crossan questioned Director of Services Brian Canon while putting forward a motion to look into have more bus shelters installed and
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The Health Minister has said the HSE remains committed to the outreach neurology service provided to Letterkenny University Hospital from Sligo, but made no commitments about providing a dedicated local service in Donegal. Minister Stephen Donnelly was responding to a Dail question from Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn, after the Neurological Alliance of Ireland launxhed a campaign
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Donegal Senator and European Election candidate Niall Blaney is calling for an increased Garda and PSNI presence in the North West to combat cross-border crime. Senator Blaney says the theft of an Audi Q7 in Strabane which was later found at Lough Hill Bog near Ballybofey stripped of its engine, wheels and other parts was
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An investigation’s underway into the fatal crash which claimed the lives of a mother and her two children in Mayo yesterday. The three who died were 47 year old Una Bowden, 14 year old Ciara Bowden and nine year old Ciara Bowden. Una Boiwden was a native of Raphoe living in County Galway. Her husband
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1,465 international protection applicants are awaiting an offer of accommodation. It comes as the Integration Minister revealed a new strategy for accommodating asylum seekers, which would see 35 thousand beds by 2028. 14 thousand of which would be State-owned through the construction of modular housing and new reception and integration centres. Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman
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Cabinet is expected to agree plans for a system to auto-enrol private sector workers into a pension scheme. Around 800,000 employees will be included, but the laws must first go through the Oireachtas. It’ll be open to people aged between 23 and 60 who aren’t already a member of a pension plan. Head of Communications
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News, Sport, and Obituaries on Wednesday March 27th……………….
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The sod was turned today on a major new €1.4 million development at Letterkenny Community Centre. The new building will be known as the Jim Lynch Community building in memory of the late councillor who was a leading figure on the board of directors for many years and who was also the editor of the
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Special meetings of Donegal County Council are to continue indefinitely to tackle the housing crisis in the county. The move was proposed by Cllr Patrick McGowan this afternoon, after it emerged today was to be the final of a series of special meetings. Cllr McGowan, who initially proposed the special meetings be held a number
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PSNI in Derry are urging people to be vigilant after a person was scammed. The money was lost after the person was contacted online and told they’d won money but had to send online gift cards to verify themselves. This continued for some time before the scam was spotted and stopped resulting in thousands of
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Rio Ferdinand is backing a cross-border project which aims to build relationships for young people across the island of Ireland. The Beyond The Ball project also focuses on connecting young people with local statutory agencies in their area – such as An Garda Siochana and the PSNI. At an event in Sligo this morning, the
The Nine Til Noon Show is broadcast live weekdays 9am til 12noon! If you missed Wednesday’s live show, you can listen to the podcast below! Donal Kavanagh’s in the hot seat today, and after the paper review, Michaela Clarke brings us a comprehensive report on last night’s ‘People’s Document’ meeting held in Buncrana. Amy Nolan
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Just 9 respite beds are available for children and adults in Donegal on a rotating basis. Two of the four respite centres in Donegal are currently closed with Seaview Respite Centre and Ballymacool Respite House the only facilities operating. Councillor Gerry McMonagle, a member of the Regional Health Forum says it is totally unacceptable that
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Listen back to a recap of last night’s public meeting on ‘The People’s Document:
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