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Gardai in Donegal are urging people to look out for others in the community

Gardai in Donegal are urging people to look out for others in the community, particularly the elderly and other potentially vulnerable people. It’s part of national Community Safety Week, which was launched by Commissioner Fachtna Murphy at the National Ploughing Championships this week. Letterkenny based Inspector Pat O’Donnell says it’s a matter of people paying

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Letterkenny Town Council rethinks traffic strategy around schools

Letterkenny Town Council is to abandon a proposal to create a “one way triangle” between St Eunan’s College, Scoil Colmcille and St Eunan’s Cathedral. Officials say a survey carried out over the summer holidays indicated the proposal would not work. However, an alternative proposal to make Cathedral Road one way between Scoil Colmcille and St

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LYIT Director says Donegal retains more graduates than any other rural county

The Director of Letterkenny Institute of Technology says Donegal has a better record in employing its own graduates than any other rural county in Ireland. Paul Hannigan was speaking after the college was ranked 18th out of 22 third level colleges in the annual Sunday Times Guide, down from 14th in 2009. The guide finds

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Rememberance service for road traffic victims to be held in Buncrana

A special interdominational service is to be held in Buncrana in November to remember people who have died in road collisions. The multi denominational ceremony will take place in Buncrana on 21st November this year as part of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. PARC says Inishowen has seen multiple fatalities this

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Derry Judge expresses astonishment that cannabis seeds can be legally sold

The Recorder at Derry Crown Court has said he is ‘totally astonished’ that cannabis seeds can be sold legally when their only use is for illegal purposes. Judge Des Marrinan’s comments came as he sentenced two men from Strathfoyle in the city for cultivating cannabis plants and for possessing the drug with intent to supply.

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More info must be given to visitors to Letterkenny – Cllr Lynch

Letterkenny Councillor Jim Lynch says more must be done to give information to visitors about sights and services in the town. He says on numerous occasions over the summer, he found himself helping tourists and visitors, and giving them information that should have been provided by the tourist authorities and the council. He says there’s

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Building work for Glenties Primary Care Centre will begin before the end of the year

It has been confirmed that building work on the long awaited Glenties Primary Care Centre will begin before the end of the year. Just last April the local parish council made the issue its number one priority claiming that promise after promise had been broken, expressing fears that the funding for the project had disappeared.

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Mulrines fined for polluting the River Finn last year

A Ballybofey soft-drinks manufacturer was fined €1,250 plus €2,500 costs  after pleading guilty to a number of charges under the water pollution act. Mulrines were sued by Donegal County Council at yesterday’s sitting of Letterkenny District Court for discharging up to eight times the amount permitted under their waste licence on five separate occasions in

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Longer terms of office are needed for Garda Superintendants appointed in Inishowen

It’s being claimed that longer terms of office are needed for Garda Superintendants appointed in Inishowen. A fourth Garda Superintendant was appointed in the area recently, the fourth there in the past three and a half years. The Inishowen Electoral Area Committee is to write to the Garda Commissioner seeking a policy of encouraging longer

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Strabane man ordered to leave town; his father denies he’s involved with drugs

A Strabane man has been given 48 hours to leave the town by a republican vigilante group, a matter of days after he was targeted in a pipe bomb attack claimed by the same organisation. 24-year-old Matt McDermott was informed by the Police that Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) had issued the threat, he has

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Donegal people urged to participate as consultation starts on Derry Regeneration Plan

The North’s Deputy First Minister Martin Mc Guinness is launching a major regeneration plan in Derry this afternoon. Foyle MLA Martina Anderson says the publication of the plan is a major event not just for Derry, but for the whole North West region, and as the regeneration company Ilex begins 12 week consultation gets underway,

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Council launching new initiative to combat racism and sectarianism

Donegal County Council will this week launch a reporting scheme which allow victims or witnesses of racist or sectarian incidents in the county to report them via text, phone or online. The Independent and confidential reporting scheme will be officially launched by the County’s Mayor Cora Harvey tomorrow. The information gathered will be used to

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Tanaiste urgd to intervene as another student grants crisis looms

Tanaiste and Education Minister Mary Coughlan is being urged to intervene in what’s being described as another grants crisis in County Donegal. Figures obtained by Senator Pearse Doherty show that Donegal County Council has yet to process the majority of new grant applications it has recived, and he wants the Tanaiste to take action. Most

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HSE spent 8.4 million euro treating preventable conditions in Donegal

Figures released showed that the HSE has spent 8.4 million euro in Donegal over the last four years on conditions associated with Diabetes which the Diabetes’s Action says are preventable. The group says there were 282 hospital admissions for diabetic foot disease in Donegal between 2005-2009, which Diabetes Actions says, would be 70% less with

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Doherty claims HSE Ballyshannon statement raises more questions than answers

The HSE has confirmed it’s examining the possibility that in the long term, services at the Shiel and Rock hospitals in Ballyshannon will be centralised at a single site. Preliminary discussions with the Shiel Hospital Trust which owns the facility have been opened, but as of yet there is no timeframe for change. Any guarantees

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