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41-year-old man sentenced to six years for killing teenager on Arranmore Island

A 41-year-old man who killed a teenager in a bar on Arranmore island has been sentenced to six years in prison. Last February, a Central Criminal Court jury found Stephen Boyle not guilty of the murder but guilty of the manslaughter of 19-year-old Paul Boyle (no relation) at Early’s Bar, Leabgarrow, Arranmore on October 3,

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Council urged to return to old system of grants for elderly people

Donegal County Council is calling for the reinstatement of the heating grant, and the restoration of grant schemes to where they were before 2010. Cllr David Alcorn raised the issue, saying the heating grants were removed because help is available from Sustainable Energy Ireland, but that hasn’t worked. He says the traditional grants system should

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Milford Inn closure report:Unsecured creditors to lose out on 1.8 million euro

Unsecured creditors are set to lose almost 1.9 million euro following the closing down of the Milford Inn. A meeting of creditors today was told that realisable assets from the sale of building and it land would realise just one million euro in today’s climate which would go against bank loans and other secured debts

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An Taisce: Mahon like activity influenced Donegal planning

The former head of An Taisce says he is in no doubt that ‘Mahon Tribunal type activities’ were also going on in Donegal and has said councillors must take some blame for Donegal’s poor planning record. The Mahon Tribunal was set up to investigate allegations of corrupt payments to politicians regarding political decisions mostly investigating

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Donegal’s Labour councillors to defy government on Household Charge vote

Labour Councillors in Donegal will go against the government today in support of a Sinn Fein motion on the Household charge. Sinn Fein is calling on the county manager not to collect information from utility companies in order to pursue those who haven’t paid the household charge. Labour whip on the Council, Frank McBrearty has

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Donegal principals pen letter to Minister calling on him to reverse cuts

Principals at seven Donegal primary schools have put their signatures to a letter opposing cuts to rural disadvantaged schools. They have joined with 10 other schools across the country which will lose teaching posts from September 2012. Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn earlier this year apologised for targeting disadvantaged schools announced a review of cuts

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Donegal tourist sector to benefit from new European marketting drive

A million euro is to be spent on a tourism marketting programme for five West and North West counties. Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo and Roscommon are set to benefit from the programme annonced this morning by Junior Minister Michael Ring. The campaign will be targetted at Britain, Germany, France and Italy. The Head of Operations

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Athletics – Jennings Hits Olympic Marathon Standard

Ireland’s Olympic selectors have been given a marathon headache as Letterkenny’s Catriona Jenning hit the qualifying mark for the women’s marathon at London 2012. Catriona who runs with Rathfarnham AC in Dublin crept inside the Olympic A standard of 2 hours, 37 minutes by clocking 2:36:14 in Sunday’s  Rotterdam Marathon.  With three places available Jennings

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GRA calls for end to garda cuts as two more robberies take place in Donegal

Gardai are investigating two robberies at filling stations in Donegal at the weekend. The first robbery took place on Friday night when three masked men, at least one of which was armed with a knife, targeted the ‘Go’ filling station in St Johnston at 10pm. They escaped with a sum of cash. On Saturday, Donaghey’s

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Donegal protesters descend upon Galway for Labour conference

Hundreds of Anti Austerity protesters from Donegal are gathering at the Labour Party’s Annual conference in Galway today. The Donegal Action Against Austerity group is leading the protests with dozens of their supporters joining others from around the country on Eyre Square. DAAA says the people are being treated with contempt by the government with

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25 on trolleys as overcrowding continues at LKG and Sligo General

There remains a relatively high number of patients either waiting for or being treated on trolleys at Letterkenny General Hospital. According to figures compiled by the INMO six people were on trolleys yesterday, that figure has grown to seven today. The situation is even worse at Sligo General Hospital which services some areas of South

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Mc Ginley and Mc Hugh urged to state their positions on education cuts

Donegal Fine Gael TDs Dinny McGinley and Joe McHugh have been called on to clarify their stance on what has been described as ‘the Education Minister’s attack on small rural schools’ Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill set the challenge after Galway Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy Eames described the policy as ‘social engineering of the worst

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AIB “negligent” in selling investment scheme to Cllr Frank Mc Brearty

A court in the North has found that AIB and its investment arm engaged in “negligent misrepresentation” of the terms of an investment product sold to Donegal Cllr Frank McBrearty jnr and his wife. The couple had invested more than half of the €1.5 million compensation Mr McBrearty received from the Irish State with the

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