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A second Derry City and Strabane District Councillor has announced they are resigning from the SDLP. It’s as the fallout over the selection of Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr as the next Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council continues. Earlier this week, Strabane Councillor Jason Barr stepped back from the SDLP as he believed the […]

Letterkenny man Declan Jordan meanwhile, has announced he will contest the upcoming elections in the Letterkenny Local Electoral Area. He will run as an Independent. He says his love for politics and Letterkenny has been central to his decision to throw his name into the hat. Mr Jordan says; ‘if I can make looking after

Councillor Gerry Crawford has reconsidered his decision to retire from politics and will now contest the upcoming local elections. Councillor Crawford, an elected member of Donegal County Council since 1999 in the Lifford Stranorlar Municipal District, announced a number of weeks ago that he would not be seeking re-election. He now says on reflection, he

Donegal recorded the lowest rent level for existing tenancies in the final quarter of last year at €707. It’s been revealed in the latest RTB Rent Index Report. Furthermore, the Carndonagh local electoral area had the lowest standardised average rent in existing tenancies at €540 per month. In terms of new tenancies, that figure was

Police are calling on the public for help in locating a man who is on the run. 35 year old Sean Cruickshank has had his licence revoked and has been recalled to prison. As well as this, he is wanted by officers in connection with another ongoing investigation in Derry. He is described as being

A new law on safe access zones around facilities offering abortion services has passed all stages of the Oireachtas. It is now being sent to the President for consideration. The legislation creates safe access zones of 100 metres from the entrance or exit to a building providing the services. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly says the

A former Donegal priest, Eamonn Crossan, was today convicted in Letterkenny District Court for crimes committed against a minor. Monsignor Kevin Gillespe has released an apology to the victim on behalf of the Raphoe Diocese. Msgr Gillespie says it is with a profound sense of sorrow and awareness of the serious impact on the victim,

Gardaí have announced nine new locations for speed cameras, one to be installed on the N14, outside of Letterkenny. The static cameras are to be operational from the end of the year, and will cost just under €2.5 million. The remaining are to be located in Galway, Waterford, Wicklow, Carlow, Mayo, Cork and Limerick.

PSNI in Derry are seeking information in relation to a car driving erratically on Monday last. Those with dashcam footage of a blue Lexus IS200 seen swerving across lanes from the Skeoge Road towards Culmore Road Roundabout is asked to make it available. Its reported to have occurred at around 7 o’clock on Monday evening.

Two drivers were arrested in Letterkenny on Monday night on suspicion of drug driving. The first motorist was initially stopped for failing to display ‘N’ plates and had then tested positive for cocaine. The second driver then was stopped when gardaí were alerted that their vehicle was not taxed over 700 days. They then also

Two people have died in a crash on the A5. A 19 year old man and a 17 year old girl died in the single vehicle collision involving a blue BMW on the Doogary Road outside Omagh at around 9:50pm last night. The road was closed overnight but has since reopened. Police are appealing to

For the first time ever child benefit is being paid to over 18s from today. The changes kick in for all over 18’s who are still in full time education, or those with a disability. Its to take account of the fact that most children now start school at the age of 5, meaning many

John Molloy is to run in the local elections as an independent in the Donegal local electoral area. Mr Molloy says he will be a candidate for IrishPeople.org. Housing, defective concrete blocks and the healthcare system is to top his agenda if elected.

A man is facing charges of assaulting an elderly resident at a nursing home in the midlands. He’s due before the court this morning in connection with the attack on a woman aged in her 80’s. This serious assault happened on Monday evening when a man used a back door to gain entry to the

Part of the A5 is closed this morning following a serious crash. The collision happened on the Doogary Road in Omagh last night. Diversions are in place. No further details are known at this time.

Northern Ireland’s Attorney General has ordered a fresh inquest into the death of Donegal man Michael Leonard. The 24 year old was shot dead in 1973 by the RUC near the Donegal-Fermanagh border. The Attorney General’s decision was announced yesterday, a day before Britain’s Legacy Act comes into force. According to Paper Trail, the North’s

Raphoe Councillor Frank McBrearty has confirmed that he is seeking re-election. The Independent Councillor was first elected in 2009 and has served in the Lifford Stranorlar Municipal District. He says his decision to run as a Councillor again was ‘one of the toughest’ of his life. Cllr McBrearty has acknowledged the legal process he is

An Oireachtas committee will meet this afternoon to discuss issues related to Defective Concrete Blocks. The meeting at 1.30pm in Committee Room 3 of Leinster House will hear from representatives from the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland, Insurance Ireland, and Engineers Ireland. The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has

One year after launching in Donegal, the Pathfinder team in Donegal has been called out to the homes of 511 older people in the region, and managed to keep 81% of patients safely at home. Pathfinder is a partnership between the National Ambulance Service and Letterkenny University Hospital, with the Pathfinder team responding to emergency

The number of people waiting on a trolley at Letterkenny University Hospital during the month of April increased 15% when compared to the same period last year. There were 594 people without a bed at the hospital over the past month, making it the 5th most overcrowded in the country. Over 11,070 patients, including 258

Gardai are seeking to identify a van and its occupants seen in the Newtowncunningham area at the time of a trailer theft last week. The ‘Brian James’ trailer/car transporter was stolen from Cornfield Lane between 1.50pm and 2pm on Wednesday afternoon last. Anyone who was in the area at the time and has dash cam

The windscreen of a lorry has been smashed during a criminal damage incident in Milford. The owner of the lorry which was parked at Lough Fern Heights between 5pm on Thursday evening last and 7:30am the following morning, discovered that the front windscreen had been smashed by rocks. Gardai are appealing to anyone who observed

Gardaí are on the hunt for three youths in connection with a burglary at a business premises in Buncrana last week. Between 1:30am and 1:40am on Wednesday morning last, the door of the premises in the Marke Square area was forced open. Two phones, a green iphone 15 and a black iPhone X were stolen.

Gardai are appealing for witnesses to a crash in the Manorcunningham area on Sunday evening last to come forward. The driver and three passengers were hospitalised following the crash on the Galdonagh Road shortly after 7pm on Sunday. Two men were seriously injured. It’s believed the car was travelling from Raphoe towards Newtowncunningham at the

Investigations are continuing into a fatal crash in Falcarragh last week. Keyna Barrett from Falcarrgh who was in her 80s, died following the crash in the Ballina area on Tuesday afternoon last at around 1:30pm. Gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. They’re keen to hear from anyone who was travelling in the