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Vice Chairman of Donegal ETB says drugs seizures highlight importance of Donegal Drugs Unit

The Vice-Chairman of the Donegal Education and Training Board has said that yesterdays drugs seizures in the county highlight the importance of the Garda Drugs Unit in the county. Gardai seized almost 150,000 euro worth of cannabis yesterday afternoon. A house was searched at Leitir, Kilmacrennan and 150 cannabis plants were discovered, while around 1.2kg […]

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Gardai in Donegal seize almost €150,000 worth of cannabis herb and plants

Gardai in Donegal have seized almost €150,000 euro worth of cannabis this afternoon. The seizures come after a man and woman were arrested in Sligo last night for being in posession of €80,000 euro worth of cannabis. 200 cannabis plants, with an estimated value of €120,000 euro were seized at two growhouses in Leiter, Kilmacrennan.

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Government must extend deadline for SNA applications – Mc Conalogue

The government is being urged to extend the deadline for applications for special needs supports in schools. All applications for new supports must be made by Friday week, but Donegal North East Deputy Charlie Mc Conalogue says that current deadline is ‘unfair and unrealistic’. Deputy Mc Conalogue, the Fianna Fail Education Spokesperson says any child

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US senate vote on action against Syria postponed amid hopes of breakthrough

A US senate vote on Wednesday on whether to support military action against Syria has been postponed. The postponement came amid speculation that President Barack Obama may be willing to accept a diplomatic solution – instead of military intervention – in Syria. Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Minister said he’d held talks with his Syrian counterpart

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Former Bundoran traffic warden accused of harrasing her successor

A former and a current traffic warden in Bundoran have confronted each other in court. Former Bundoran traffic warden Patricia McCafferty has been accused of harassing her successor Eddie Duffy. Both appeared in Donegal District Court, where the case was adjourned after Ms McCafferty, representing herself, sought extra documents from the prosecution. Judge Denis McLaughlin

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Lynch criticises lack of support for Town Council retention campaign

A Councillor has said he is disappointed at the lack of public support for the retention of town Councils. The issue was discussed during this weeks monthly meeting of the council with members again stressing their opposition to plans to scrap town councils. During a debate on the subject, the Association of Municipal Authorities was

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Update – Harte says more PIPs will be appointed soon as concern grows over North West shortage

It’s emerged that there is only one registered Personal Insolvency Practitioner to serve the whole of Donegal, a fact which local Deputy Padraig Mac Lochlainn is describing as “a nonsense”. Anyone in mortgage distress or other financial difficulties who wishes to apply for debt reduction through insolvency will need to use a practitioner, but it

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Letterkenny retains Gold medal as Tidy Towns results are announced

  Moynalty in Co Meath has been named as Ireland’s tidiest town. Letterkenny has again been awarded a Gold Medal, securing 313 points this year, two behind category winners Killarney and three behind Moynalty in County Meath, the overal winner this year. Letterkenny was also named as the North West regional winner and the recipient

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Delay in opening Irish Cancer Society Daffodil Centre in Letterkenny

The Irish Cancer Society says its long awaited Donegal Daffodil Centre will be open at Letterkenny Shopping Centre by Wednesday at the latest. The centre was to have opened today, but the society says there have been a number of unavoidable delays. The initial centre was under construction at Letterkenny General Hospital, but those plans

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Funding announced for special needs classes in Carrick and Letterkenny

The Department of Education has announced extra special needs classes for primary and post-primary schools in Donegal. The announcement is part of a national scheme, which plans to role out a total of 118 new classes throughout the country over the coming month. There will be new Autistic Spectrum Disorder classes in Carrick Vocational School

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Strabane SDLP Councillor condemns gun and explosive findings in the town

An SDLP councillor has condemned the latest incidents that took place in Strabane over the weekend. Yesterday a gun was found in a hedge in the Ballycolman housing estate, leading to a number of houses being evacuated. Then this morning police were called to Cemetery road, where suspected explosives and bomb making material were found.

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Martin McGuinness in Donegal to launch historical and cultural atlas

 A historical, environmental and cultural atlas of county Donegal is being launched today. The Atlas brings together the diversity of material written about Donegal’s history, landscape and people. It’s being launched by Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, who has a long association with county Donegal – his mother was from near Buncrana. The North’s Deputy First

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Tony Abbott predicted as clear winner in Australian general election.

The Australian state broadcaster, the ABC, says Tony Abbott is the clear winner in the country’s general election. The conservative opposition leader has beaten Labor’s Kevin Rudd, bringing an end to six years of Labor rule in Australia. The ABC says the opposition coalition has won 74 seats already, indicating they’ll get a clear majority

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Donegal Sinn Fein reps travel to Louth for party’s pre Dail ‘Think in’

 Sinn Féin’s holding its annual think-in today. The party’s TDs and Senators are meeting at Carlingford in Co Louth to plan their strategies for the year ahead. Members are likely to focus on the party’s plans for the forthcoming Seanad referendum, in which it’s recommending a Yes vote. They’re also likely to consider the party’s

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IBEC says Donegal CoCo is making efforts to ease costs burden on businesses

A group representing Irish businesses says water and waste water charges continue to rise despite the recession. That’s according to a new report from IBEC this morning, ‘Addressing the challenge of local authority costs’. It finds that many business are continuing to pay boom times rates despite the financial pressures which they are facing. Donegal

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Junior Health Minister says air transfer from LKG to Cork was not at her request

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch has said she has no idea who decided to use the air ambulance to transfer her from Letterkenny General Hospital to Cork last month after she was suddenly taken ill. Ms Lynch was on an official visit to Letterkenny Hospital on July 31st to view first hand the damaged caused

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ESB to appeal council refusal for major development windfarm at Ballintra

ESB wind development Limited is appealing a decision by Donegal County Council to refuse it permission to construct a major wind farm in South Donegal. ESB wind development Limited sought a ten year planning permission for the development consisting seven wind turbines, access tracks, transformer station and all associated site works. Each wind turbine would

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Donegal Deputy shocked after banks reveal they have issued 14,721 repossession letters

Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD has expressed shock at the revelation that some 14,721 repossession letters have been sent by the four banks that appeared before the Oireachtas Finance Committee this week.   Deputy Doherty said an additional 2,439 requests for voluntary surrender were sent out. Speaking after the final committee meeting of

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NI man who went on the run in Donegal admits breaching terms of sex offenders register

A convicted rapist from Northern Ireland who went on the run in Donegal  has admitted breaching the terms of the police sex offenders register. 29 year-old Joseph McCabe  pleaded guilty at Belfast Crown Court to failing to notify police of his intention to travel outside the UK. Released from jail last April, McCabe and another

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Chairperson of Strabane District Council to face a motion of ‘no confidence’

 The Chairperson of Strabane District Council is set face a motion of ‘no confidence’ next week. Ulster Unionist Derek Hussey says he will table the motion against Sinn Féin’s Ruairi McHugh at Monday’s monthly meeting – its only the third time in history such move has taken place. The move is off the back a

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Reports show that Donegal has one of the lowest rates of Suicide in Ireland

According to new reports published today, Donegal is one of the three counties with the lowest recorded rate of Suicide in Ireland. Across the country, the rate of suicidal behaviour has stabilised but we still have the fourth highest rate of death by suicide among young people in the EU. Three reports on suicide and

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Enforcement Order served on West Donegal windfarm to block erection of turbine

Donegal County Council has served an enforcement order on the directors of Loughderryduff windfarm. The order was attached to the entrance gate of the windfarm between Ardara and Glenties yesterday. The enforcement order relates to the alleged erection of a wind turbine without planning permission, apparently to replace a turbine which collapsed at the site

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Health ministers urged to act on potential for NW Connected Health Corridor

The Health Ministers in Stormont and Dublin are being urged to examine the possibility of creating a North West Connected Health Innovation Corridor to promote digital medicine in the region and maximise the potential of electronics and information technology. Foyle MLA Maeve Mc Laughlin says a conference in Derry in May heard that such a

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