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Castlefinn Partnership awarded funding for White House garden project

Plans to develop identical walled gardens in the White House and Castlefinn have moved a step closer this week with confirmation of a grant of €180,000 for the Castlefinn Partnership Initiative Limited. The partnership has been working with gardener Diarmuid Gavin for a number of years, and during a visit to the Northwest Garden Show

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Diversions in place following collision at Quigleys Point – Carndonagh junction

There’s been a single vehicle collision close to the Carndonagh turn off at Quigley’s Point on the Muff to Moville Road. It happened shortly after 4 o’clock this afternoon. One man has been injured and brought to Letterkenny General Hospital. The road remains closed, local diversions are in place.

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Justice Minister Alan Shatter gives no commitments to Omagh families

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has met with representatives of the Omagh Support and Self-help Group. The group presented the minister with a document outlining their case for a cross border enquiry into events leading up to the Omagh bombing in 1998. Mr Shatter promised that both he and the gardai would carefully consider the document. Spokeperson for

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Survey suggests Donegal will get a tourism boost from the London Olymics

The has been a 400% increase in online enquiries for Donegal which is being attributed to holiday goers seeking an alternative to London. According to Hotels.com there has been a surge in UK travellers looking up destinations in Ireland in the last fortnight indicating as many are planning a break away here during the Olympics.

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SDLP confident Malin Coast Guard Station will be retained

The SDLP has made representation in Dublin for the retention of the Malin Coast Guard Station with a Derry representative now positive that the station will be retained. A report published earlier this month by Fisher Consultants on the marine emergency response regimes proposed that Malin be closed. Under the proposals presented to government, Dublin

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2,308 people apply for fourteen jobs at new furniture store in Derry

It’s been revealed that almost 2,500 people have applied for fourteen positions at DFS in Derry. Figures released today show that a total of 5,875 are currently receiving unemployment related benefits in the city. This leaves argubly one out of two people who are unemployed in Derry applying for the positions at DFS. Foyle MLA

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Chief Super:Significant progress made on Donegal cross-border crime spree

Significant progress is being made in relation to robberies and burglaries in the Newtowncunningham / Cariggans areas and  Gardai are working very closely with the PSNI as part of their investigations. That is according to Chief Superintendent Jim Sheridan who, earlier on ‘The Shaun Doherty Show’, stated that property has been recovered in the north

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Calls for mobile roaming charges to be scrapped on the island of Ireland

There are renewed calls for for mobile phone providers on the island of Ireland to introduce a single tariff for customers and stamp out roaming charges. A recent Ofcom report estimated that roaming charges cost customers along the border an additional £300 a year in Northern Ireland with similar costs incurred in the Republic. SDLP

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Stimulus package slammed as forgetting about Donegal once again

Opposition politicians to the Government in Donegal are hitting out at the €2 billion stimulus package – announced yesterday afternoon. A number of local politicians have stated that Donegal has been forgot about once again. While Senator Jimmy Harte has welcomed the package, which has earmarked funds for a new courthouse in Lettekenny and for

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Journalist who wrote article that published McAreavey photos arrested in Mauritius

The Prime Minister of Mauritius has told the Irish Independent, that he knows who leaked the photographs of Michaela McAreavey’s dead body to a newspaper. In an interview published in today’s paper, Navin Ramglooam says the source of the pictures did NOT come from within the police force itself, but from someone else close to

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Senator O Domnhaill says cutting subsidiary bus service escalates costs

A Donegal Senator has told the Seanad that it doesn’t make sense to cut the subsidised bus service which brings people to hospitals in Dublin for out patient appointments. It was annouced last week by the Government that the service was being withdrew because not enough people use it. Speaking on behalf of the Health Minister in

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Government confirms new Letterkennny Courthouse as part of stimulus package

As was revealed on Highland Radio News at lunchtime, funding for a new courthouse for Letterkenny has been included as part of a government stimulus package. The 2.25  billion euro plan will see a number of infrastructural projects going ahead, including roads, schools and health centres. Two primary care centres have been ‘earmarked’ for Dungloe

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Gardai pledge to address “unsavoury activity” around Leck Cemetrey

It’s emerged that gardai are investigating a number of incidents in the vicinity of Leck Cemetery in recent weeks following complaints from local residents. There have already been behind the scenes discussions between local councillors and Superintendent Vincent O’Brien about the incidents, and today, the issue has come to the fore as a result of

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Mick McGinley’s Persona Digital Telephony wins mobile phone license challenge

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for 2 multimillion euro legal actions over the awarding of the State’s second mobile phone license to Esat Digifone in 1995. The challenges against the State, Esat Digifone and its former chairman Denis O Brien, are being brought by the 2 unsuccessful bidders  – Comcast International Holdings Incorporated

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Government hindering rather than helping realisation of wood potential – Claim

A spokesperson for Woodland owners in Donegal says successive governments have sold off Irish fishing rights and gas rights, and now, the government is on the verge of selling off forestry harvesting rights currently held by Coillte. John Jackson was speaking as the Donegal Woodland Owners begins courses in Stranorlar and Inishowen this week aimed

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Donegal has 2nd biggest spend on erectile dysfunction drugs in HSE west

A Co. Clare councillor says overspending in the health service could be reduced by curbing medical card holders’ access to erectile dysfunction drugs. The spend on erectile dysfunction drugs has increased by 13 per cent in the HSE West area that stretches from Donegal to Limerick in 2010. The figures show that patients through the

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