A local election candidate and community worker has claimed Donegal County Council is not doing enough to tackle racism in the county. Billy Banda was unsuccessful in his attempts to get elected to the local authority as an independent. He claims the council had an initiative in place to deal with allegations of racism but […]
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A man has been arrested by gardai investigating an alleged sex assault in South Donegal. The assault on a woman in her early 30s is alleged to have taken place last week in Donegal town. The suspect, in his early 60s, was questioned today at Ballyshanon Garda station. Gardai have indicated they expect a file
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The importance of the landscape, scenery and natural environment of Donegal and the North West has been highlighted in a survey of visitors just published by Failte Ireland. Over 900 visitors were surveyed between May and October last year, 61% of whom were first time visitors to the region. 56% of all those surveyed said
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New research shows we are still talking and texting on our phones while behind the wheel. More than 10% of drivers are continuing to put their lives, and others, at risk by using their hand-held phones whilst driving. Of the 10% of motorists who were observed breaking the law in relation to mobile phone use:
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Letterkenny General Hospital are now this morning accepting new medical patients. It had emerged yesterday that the hosipal where not accepting new medical patients as there was a shortage of medical registrars at the hospital. While the restrictions have now been lifted, hospital management are again asking people to only attend the emergency department if absolutley
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Aston Villa goalkeeper Shay Given says the public perception of Roy Keane is very different to what he sees in training every day. The former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland captain, known for his fiery temper, is now assistant manager at the Premier League club. Donegal stopper Given says he’s been a joy to
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Ireland face holders New Zealand this evening in their second World cup match in France. Philip Doyle’s side opened their campaign with a win against the USA at the weekend while the Kiwi’s smashed Kazakhstan. Donegal’s Nora Stapleton starts again at out-half while Ballybofey’s Larisas Muldoon who played the closing minutes of Friday’s win is
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Research of mobile phone use by Irish drivers, carried out by motoring solutions specialists, easytrip, has revealed that a significant number of motorist are violating mobile phone road traffic regulations, with more than 10% of drivers continuing to put their lives, and others, at risk by using their hand-held phones whilst driving. The research, which
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Research of mobile phone use by Irish drivers, carried out by motoring solutions specialists, easytrip, has revealed that a significant number of motorist are violating mobile phone road traffic regulations, with more than 10% of drivers continuing to put their lives, and others, at risk by using their hand-held phones whilst driving. The research, which
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The Donegal Minors will play Dublin in the All Ireland semi final at the end of the month. The Dubs beat Cork 2-14 to 1-13 in their quarter final clash at Semple Stadium on Monday. Chris Sallier scored both of Dublin’s goals. Donegal reached the semi final by beating Roscommon 0-10 to 1-5 last Saturday.
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The Donegal ladies team are out of the All Ireland Championship, having been beaten by Kerry in Round 2 of the TG4 Ladies All Ireland Championship qualifiers. After a spirited effort from the Donegal team, the match went to extra time, and finished Donegal 2-14 (20) Kerry 1-22 (25).
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A man who said he drank ten beers, followed by two bottles of rum and then drank a bottle of vodka in the presence of police has been remanded in custody charged with biting a police officer at the weekend. 26 Anthony Feeny of 44, Moyola Walk in Derry appeared at the local Magistrate’s Court
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It’s emerged that Letterkenny General Hospital will not be accepting medical patients from today until Wednesday as a result of a shortage of medical registrars at the hospital. The issue has been highlighted this evening by Donegal Councillor and HSE West Forum Member Gerry Mc Monagle, who is seeking clarification from the hospital about the
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The main N56 road between Loughanure and Dungloe was closed for a time today as a result of a serious road crash at 2 o’clock this morning. The single car crash happened near the Cruckakeehan junction. It is understood the car was coming from Dungloe travelling in the direction of Loughanure. The male driver and
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Rory McIlroy will head into the final Major of the year as World number one. Victory at the Bridgestone Invitational last night followed his success at the Open Championship a fortnight ago. Starting the final day three shots off the lead, McIlroy won by two strokes from Sergio Garcia. One man highly unlikely to make
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The newly crowned Mary from Dungloe 2014 is a student from Sydney, Australia. Kate Lindsay, 19, was crowned on Sunday night as the ten day event drew to a close. The eldest of three of a family, Kate was at the festival on her own as she is about to commenced studies in Dublin. The
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The main N56 road between Loughanure and Dungloe wass closed this morning as a result of a serious accident at 2.am The single car crash happened near the Cruckakeehan (pronounce cruk-a-key-han) junction. It is understood the car was coming from Dungloe travelling in the direction of Loughanure. The driver, a male occupant in his twenties, and
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Mayo have set up an All Ireland Football semi final meeting with Kerry. Mayo held off a late rally from Cork to run out 1-19 to 2-15 winners in the second of today’s quarter finals at Croke Park. A superb Aidan O’Shea goal four minutes from time looked to put the game beyond the Rebels,
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Bundoran RNLI launched yesterday afternoon to aid an overturned jet-ski off Muvagh Beach. Malin Head Coast guard alerted the volunteer lifeboat crew to the incident when a family of four from Northern Ireland got into difficulty in the water following the capsizing of their jet ski. The family were all wearing lifejackets and had
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Cockhill Celtic and Swilly Rovers will clash in this years Ulster Senior League Cup Final after both sides won high drama Semi Finals over the weekend. On Saturday night Swilly came from 2-0 down to beat Derry City 3-2 and take their place in the decider. George Kelly and Ryan Doherty had Derry in front
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Six youth cyclists have been taken to Letterkenny General Hospital following a pile up on the opening day of the third annual Errigal Youth International Tour. None of the injuries are thought to be serious and range from possible broken collar bones to bruising. The event, which takes place in Donegal, is aimed at children
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The Sligo Races annual two day fixture takes place this Wednesday the 6th and Thursday 7th August. The races will see a mixture of flat and jump action over the two days. Oisin Kelly has been looking forward to what promises to be an exciting few days of racing with the Course Manager Brian Kennedy.
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Kris Meeke finished third in this weekend’s Rally Finland on the World Rally Championship. The County Tyrone driver and his navigator Paul Nagle drove their Citroen DS3 superbly in the showpiece event on the calendar to come home 47 seconds behind the Volkswagon of championship leader Sébastien Ogier who finished second. The rally was won
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Donegal will play Armagh in next Saturday’s All Ireland Quarter Final after the Orchard County took victory in the first of the 4B Qualifiers today in Dublin. Armagh survived some first half resilience from Meath to run out 0-18 to 0-13 winners at a rain-soaked Croke Park. Stefan Campbell who scored three points was Armagh’s
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Donegal boxer Jason Quigley is now preparing for his second professional fight later this month. On Saturday Sport he spoke with Chris Ashmore about his decision to turn pro and the changes he is facing as he adjusts to living in California.
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The Donegal minor football team booked its place in the All-Ireland semi-finals after a hard fought win 0-10 to 1-5 win over a robust Roscommon side. The Declan Bonner managed side led 0-5 to 0-4 at half-time in Markievicz Park in Sligo. They then took control in the third quarter but Roscommon pulled back a
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Derry City proved to be far too strong for Bohemains as they notched up a comfortable 4-0 win at the Brandywell. Rory Patterson and Michael Duffy both grabbed a brace of goals for the Peter Hutton managed side. With Sligo Rovers losing 1-0 to St. Pat’s, this result lifts City up to fifth in
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It’s been a golden day for Northern Irish boxing at the Commonwealth Games. Paddy Barnes has secured back-to-back wins in the light flyweight division, beating India’s Devendro Laishram on a unanimous decision at Glasgow’s S-E-C-C. Gold too for Barnes’ room-mate, Michael Conlan. The St. John Bosco figher beat England’s Qais Ashfaq (pron: Kye-eese Ash-fak) in
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A game Harps could have won – a match they could so easily have lost. In the end – the draw was probably the fairest result. In fairness to Ollie Horgan – he accepted that his team were fortunate to get the point in the end – although you could forgive him for bemoaning Kevin
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It is one year since the devastating flood that hit Letterkenny General Hospital. On the evening of the 26th of July last year, after one hour of torrential rain, parts of the hospital were destroyed by severe flooding. It was, and still is, the worst natural disaster to hit any Irish Hospital in the history
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The annual national review of shellfish waters for 2014 shows as disimprovement in County Donegal. The national annual review of shellfish waters classification is a major part of IFA Aquaculture’s work on behalf of 250 small and medium sized companies producing oysters and mussels around the coast. There were 20 areas analysed in Donegal with
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A conference takes place in Ballybofey in September to explore opportunities in rural areas. The conference coincides with the end of the River Links Project which involved neighbouring communities along the banks of the Finn and the Foyle working together on projects with funding from the EU. The Initiatives included a community centre in Stranorlar,
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Two boxing Commonwealth games bronze medals are heading for Derry. Connor Coyle and Sean McGlinchey had to settle for bronze after both lost their semi finals today. Coyle went down 3-0 to India’s Vijender Vijender in the last four middleweight encounter. Earlier McGlinchey bowed out of the competition after losing 3-0 to 18 year old
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The Ireland Women’s team have made a winning start to the Rugby World Cup in France. They’ve beaten the USA by 23 points to 17 in their Pool B opener in France. Fahan’s Nora Stapleton started at out half while Ballybofey’s Larissa Muldoon came of the bench in the closing stages. First-half tries from Ailis
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Derry’s Sean McGlinchy suffered defeat this afternoon in the Semi Final of the Light-Heavyweight Division at the Commonwealth games in Scotland. McGlinchey bowed out of the competition after losing to 18 year old David Nyika from New Zealand. Nyika won the fight 3-0 but McGlinchey does take home a brilliant Bronze medal.
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Donegal play Roscommon in Sligo on Saturday in the All Ireland Minor Football Quarter Final.. Manager Declan Bonner is asking the Donegal supporters to get behind the boys on Saturday and turn out in large numbers. Although his team are favourites for the game Declan says Roscommon will be a serious test.
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There’s plenty of North West interest in the Commonwealth Games todayand there’s nine Northern Irish boxers are in semi final action. Among them are the Derry fighters Sean Mc Glinchey who’s up against 18 year old Kiwi David Nyika and Indian boxer – Vijender Vijender – is the opponent for Derry middleweight Connor Coyle. McGlinchey
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Officials in Gaza say up to 25 people have been killed in renewed Israeli shelling this morning. Israel’s military says it’s resuming operations – and blaming Hamas for breaking a 72 hour ceasefire brokered by the UN and US. The IDF says a number of its soldiers have been injured in a “serious incident” on
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The number signing on the live register in July has shown an increase on on the figure for June. There were 20,106 people on the register in Donegal last month, 300 up on the previous month, but 1,600 down on the same time last year. There were some significant increases in those signing on in
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A Donegal councillor has raised concerns after it took over three hours to turn off a burst water mains in Buncrana this week. The water burst happened on Lower Main Street in Buncrana just after 9pm on Wednesday night. The issue wasn’t resolved until almost three hours later, after hundreds of litres of water had gushed
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Richard Dunne has announced his retirement from international football. The 34-year old has informed Martin O’Neill that he wants to concentrate on his club career with QPR. Dunne made his debut in a friendly defeat to Greece in 2000, while the last of his 80 caps came against Kazakhstan in October of last year.
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Finn Harps will be looking to close the five point gap between themselves and Wexford Youths when the two sides meet at Finn Park on Friday evening (kick-off 8.00pm). Wexford were the last side to score against Harps from open play (it was actually and own goal from Ciaran Coll) – that coming in the
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Donegal County Council is to create up to 30 new jobs over two years after winning a contract to provide roads services to other local authorities. The council won the contract through an open competition, similar to the one which saw the NRA’s North West Road Design Office come to the county some years ago.
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Residents of a Lifford housing estate, which has been plagued by overflowing sewage for almost five years, are again demanding that the issue be fixed once and for all.A stream of foul smelling sewage water has plagued residents of Hazlewood Drive for over four years now.Barry Whyte reports:
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Gardai are searching for a man who tried to coax a young boy to get into his van in broad daylight in Leitrim Village last Thursday. According to the Leitrim observer the man is thought to have been driving a white van with some form of sign writing on it – the vehicle had a
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Donegal Co Council has said it could take six months to fix a sewage problem at a Letterkenny housing estate. Residents of the Glen Rua estate in Letterkenny have been plagued by sewage running on to their land. The estate is just one of dozens throughout Donegal which has suffered similar problems. Cllr John O
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Philip Doyle has named an experienced side for Ireland’s opening game of the Women’s World Cup. 14 of the side for tomorrow’s Pool B opener against the USA were part of last year’s Grand Slam winning squad. Donegal’s Nora Stapleton starts at outhalf while Larissa Muldoon starts on the bench. The match kicks-off at 4
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Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD, has described the news that a further two Anglo executives have received sentences of community service as “a slap in the face for the Irish people’. Former Finance Director and Donegal native Willie McAteer and the bank’s former head of Irish lending Pat Whelan were found guilty by
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Highland Radio has again topped the poll as Ireland’s Number One local radio station with over 64,000 people in the North Donegal Region tuning in each day. The news was confirmed in official figures released today in a JNLR/Ipsos MRBI report. It was more good news from Ireland’s number one local radio station following last
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An Bord Pleanala has refused permission for an anaerobic digester in Castlefin. The Bord backed Donegal County Council decision to refuse permission for development at Cavanaweery in March. There had been concern expressed locally at the decision with claims of a lack of consultation with locals on the development. Glenmore Estate Aghaveagh NW had sought
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