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People in Letterkenny are being urged to have patience as the High Road will be partially closed to traffic until the middle of February. Irish Water is set to begin a major project this week on Letterkenny’s High Road which will help drive down leakage and reduce the number of bursts and unplanned interruptions. Concerns […]

Over 200 medicines are now unavailable to Irish patients, which includes treatment for chest infections, strep-throat, pneumonia and blood pressure. The analysis compiled by industry experts also found 11 of these medicines are deemed critical by the World Health Organisation. The analysis carried out by A-zure Pharmaceuticals found penicillin-based antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections

  A Sinn Féin MLA in Derry has condemned a sectarian attack on homes in the Fountain Estate at the weekend, and is urging anyone with information to immediately bring it forward to the PSNI. Police say on Saturday evening, they received a report that a number of rocks had been thrown at two houses

Naas in County Kildare has won the Irish Business Against Litter Award for the second year in a row. Kilkenny and Maynooth were runners-up of the 40 towns surveyed. Letterkenny came in 6th, and is deemed to be cleaner than European norms, with the Ballymacool Town Park coming in for particular praise.

The NCT test centre in Derrybeg had the lowest pass rate of any centre in the country last year. Deansgrange in South Dublin had the highest. The figures compiled by Indenpendent.ie also reveal that a total of 14 testing centres had pass rates below 50 percent. All three test centres in Donegal returned pass rates

Almost 10,000 homes are without power in the Letterkenny, Kilmacrennan and Termon areas this evening following a major outage. According to the ESB, a fault at Gortlee has caused the outage. Currently it’s expected that power will be restored at 7pm this Sunday evening. You can check for updates on the ESB’s PowerCheck map here:

Police in Derry have made a number of appeals following several seperate incidents, including a car theft as well as an incident where a pedestrian was struck by a car in the city in recent days. Police say they’ve arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of a number of motoring offences after a car was

Police in Derry are appealing for information following an aggravated burglary that happened yesterday morning. The incident happened at 6:55am on Saturday morning in the Altcar Park area of the city, when two masked men entered a property. Detective Sergeant Ballentine said: “It was reported that two masked men had entered the property, one armed

Donegal County Council has announced that a number of roads in the county will be gritted early tomorrow morning. The announcement comes alongside a status yellow weather warning for high winds expected today and overnight into Sunday morning. The updated gritting map is available here: https://donegal.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6c6e14762485409cbf66df0c69cbd8f2 And a full list of the routes that will

The Housing Minister needs to act urgently to increase the supply of social, cost rental and affordable homes. That’s the call from Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan who’s describing the homeless figures as a ‘disaster.’ Over 11,500 people are living in emergency accommodation, a rise of over a quarter on this time last year and

A status yellow wind warning for five counties, including County Donegal, has just begun this morning. The alert which also covers counties Kerry, Clare, Galway and Mayo will be in place until 8am tomorrow. Winds will be very strong and gusty, especially near coasts, which could cause localised wave overtopping. Cathal Nolan from Ireland’s Weather

37 drivers in Donegal were arrested during December for driving under the influence and drug driving. The Christmas and New Year Road Safety Campaign commenced on 1st December 2022 and concluded on 3rd January 2023. During this period, 32 drivers were arrested for driving under the influence, while five were caught drug driving. Nationally, 745

Police in Derry say three people had a frightening experience last night when a masked man and woman armed with an axe entered a home in Caw Close in ther early hours of this morning. Police say at around 1.45 this morning, a masked man forced his way into the home, armed with what was

Police have arrested a man in connection to a report of a stolen Mercedes in Derry this morning. A white Mercedes was reported stolen from Glendale Drive in the city shortly before 10.10am, and driven along Buncrana Road, over Craigavon Bridge towards Strabane. Within 30 minutes the vehicle was located in Springhill Park in Strabane,

Irish Water says a major project set to get underway next week on Letterkenny’s High Road will help drive down leakage and reduce the number of bursts and unplanned interruptions. The works will see High Road partially closed to traffic until the middle of February. Irish Water and Donegal County Council are replacing 250 metres

Two people, one of them a former Garda staff member, have been charged in connection with corruption offences. The former employee who is a woman in her 20s was arrested and charged this morning along with a man in his 30s. They’re due before Dun Laoghaire District Court this morning.

More strong winds have been forecast for Donegal this weekend. A status yellow wind warning has been issued for Donegal, Clare, Kerry, Galway and Mayo. Southerly winds, veering southwesterly, are expected to be very strong and gusty, especially near coasts with localised wave overtopping possible. The warning comes into effect tomorrow morning at 10am and