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The Donegal Mountain Rescue Team have made an appeal to the public warning of spam posts advertising false merchandise. The group say the items sold do not support rescue efforts. They are asking the public to report any posts of this nature and to not attempt to purchase the items advertised due to the risk […]

Killybegs was Ireland’s largest fishing port last year. The Bord Iascaigh Mhara Business of Seafood report launched today revealed that Ireland’s seafood economy was worth a total of €1.3 billion in 2022. The value of the overall Irish seafood sector increased by 13% to €703 million in 2022, while the overall value of Irish aquaculture

Gerry Hutch has been found not guilty of the murder of David Byrne. The prosecution had claimed that he was one of two gunmen who shot the Kinahan associate at a boxing event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in February 2016. The case against Mr Hutch boiled down to whether the judges believed the

Three Donegal towns have been shortlisted in the . Dunlewey’s Digital History and Heritage project, Carndonagh’s Unleashing Digital Creativity initiative for young people in rural Donegal, facing educational disadvantage and Ardara’s Decreasing Isolation, Increasing Connectedness initiative for residents in sheltered accommodation have all been shortlisted. The .IE Digital Town Awards recognise and reward projects with

A taxi man has been assaulted in Derry. Police are appealing for witnesses after the man is reported to have been assaulted by a man as he dropped him off in the Westlake area of Strathfoyle at around 11:45pm last night. The driver sustained an injury to his hand while damage was also caused to

A review into the failed secondment of former Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan to Trinity College found the funding commitment “by-passed all accepted protocols.” It was to cost two million euro a year. This review was carried out last year and today has been published by the Department of Health. The review was undertaken by

Police are treating a fire at a house in Strabane as suspected arson. A man has been arrested while one woman was taken to hospital following the blaze las night. Officers on patrol in the Church View area noticed smoke coming from a house at around 10.50pm and immediately evacuated neighbouring properties. Fire Service personnel

The Health Minister will visit Donegal on Friday. Stephen Donnelly is in the county to officially open of the new state-of-the-art Donegal Town Primary Care Centre. As well as Primary Care and GP services, the facility will also house PHN Services, CIT Nurses, Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Social Work and Occupational Therapy services. Other services available

Police in Derry made two arrests in the city during the early hours of his morning, in relation to drink driving. Both involved men aged 24 years old. The first man was arrested on Bay Road on suspicion of being in charge with excess alcohol in breath, and driving with excess alcohol in breath. He

Irish victims of rape and sexual assault had their data stolen in a ransomware attack last month. A third party broke through a security system and accessed information from data managing company, Evide. The Derry-based business manages the data of a number of charities, including One In Four, which supports adults who experienced childhood sexual

Donegal County Council with the support of Transport Infrastructure Ireland are hosting two non-statutory public consultations for the Buncrana to Carndonagh Greenway Project in Inishowen and Carndonagh. The project is currently in its first phase, which includes the identification of a project study area and the key constraints and opportunities located within. The public consultations

Police in Strabane have closed Church Street up until the Glen Road junction. The public have been asked to avoid the area. It comes as Police and Fire Service deal with an incident reported last night.

A driver was arrested yesterday after they had driven almost double to speed limit earlier in the week. Gardaí from Buncrana Roads Policing Unit detected the vehicle being driven at 195KPH on the N13 a few days ago. The speed limit in that area is 100KPH and the road was reported to be very busy

It’s now illegal to fly a drone near Hillsborough in the North due to temporary airspace restrictions. The PSNI says it took effect at 2 o’clock this afternoon and it is now an offence to fly a drone within the vicinity of Hillsborough until 10pm. This will also be in place in the area on

A vehicle deemed to be in a dangerous condition has been seized in Letterkenny. The seizure is a result of policing units patrolling the Knockbrack area having received complaints in relation to dangerous driving and diffing. Gardai continue to monitor the area and are conducting checkpoints.

Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter will be holding it’s Annual General Meeting in Dillons Hotel on Thursday, 27 April at 8pm and are looking for more people to join their dynamic project. The project which has won National Awards was awarded €10.4 million under the Urban Regeneration Development Fund to develop a greater ‘Cathedral Quarter area.’ The

Police in Derry are appealing for information after a suspected petrol bomb was thrown at a patrol vehicle. The incident took place while officers were responding to activity in the Shearwater Way at around 10 am yesterday morning. Its reported a man of slim build and dressed in black approached the vehicle from behind, running

Gardaí are investigating a hit-and-run in County Monaghan. The collision, involving a car and a pedestrian, happened on Main Street, Ballybay at about 8.45 last night. The pedestrian, aged in her 60s, was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda for treatment of injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening. The car failed

Gardaí in Raphoe will be hosting a community drop in session this coming Tuesday April 18th. It will take place in Raphoe Family Resource Centre from 6pm to 7 pm. Anyone with forms to be signed/stamped or those seeking information and guidance are encouraged to attend with no appointments necessary.

It’s emerged that some of the pedestrian paving installed as part of the new one way system close to the cathedral in Letterkenny has been damaged as a result of inappropriate parking. At this week’s meeting of Letterkenny Milford Municipal District, Cllr Jimmy Kavanagh asked when repairs will be made to the damage on footpaths on

New hospital waiting list figures were published yesterday by the National Treatment Purchase Fund. It show that 490,993 people on the Active Waiting Lists are waiting longer than the Sláintecare maximum wait times, 5% lower than last month. The 2017 Houses of the Oireachtas Sláintecare report recommended maximum wait times of no more than 12

The Children’s Ombudsman says the levels of investment in Child Mental Health Services is “an insult to children.” Dr. Niall Muldoon was speaking at the Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Delegate Conference in Carlow. He told the conference “expenditure on mental health services as a percentage of total health expenditure has been in decline for forty

Residential property prices rose by 5% in the year to February. That’s down from 6.1% in the 12 months to January, according to the CSO. In Dublin, prices increased by 3.2%, while outside the capital they went up by 6.4%. The border region which encompasses Donegal, Cavan, Sligo, Leitrim and Monaghan saw the largest increase

Just over half of applications to the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme have been approved. 51% of the 1,219 Stage 1 applications received under the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme have been approved. Fees amounting to almost €5.7m have been issued under the first stage of the scheme. 595 stage 1 applications either require further

Two school extension projects in Donegal have been given the green light to move to construction. Scoil Cholmcille NS and Scoil Naisionta Naomh Colmchille, have both received the go ahead under the Additional School Accommodation scheme. In welcoming the news, Minister Charlie McConalogue says the developments will help with the school offerings in the towns.