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  Three Greenway projects in Donegal have been awarded funding as part of a €4.5m Government announcement today. The funding was allocated under the Carbon Tax Fund 2020 and provides support for feasibility, planning and design for Greenways around the country. Twenty-six projects have been successful nationally. The three Greenway projects in Donegal are to […]

  The HSE has confirmed that a total of €6.3m has been spent in the North West so far, in the battle against Covid -19. The team in the North West has also confirmed that further preparations are underway to deal with a potential second wave. According to new figures, the response to the outbreak

  Customers may be able to drink at the bar when pubs reopen. According to the Irish Independent, Fáilte Ireland will make the recommendation to the government later this week. It will publish guidelines for pubs that only serve alcohol. Pubs serving food that are currently open don’t allow customers to sit at the bar.

  Consumers are being warned about a ‘smishing’ scam involving text messages being sent to people purporting to be from AIB claiming their card has been compromised The individual is then asked to log onto a website in order to receive a new card. As part of the process they are requested to insert their

40 more Covid-19 cases have been confirmed by health authorities. The death toll since the virus broke out remains at 1,764, after no new deaths were recorded. None of the new cases were recorded in Donegal, where the number of confirmed cases remains at 472. There have now been 25,929 confirmed covid 19 cases since

A Dublin man who sexually abused his step-daughter and secretly recorded her in the bathroom has been jailed for six years. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that the 50 year old man used a camera hidden inside a clock to take videos of his step-daughter in the shower which he then sent to another man.

The front window of a house has been smashed during a weekend incident in Raphoe.  Gardaí in Letterkenny are investigating the incident of criminal damage which happened on Friday the 24th of July shortly after 2.30am. The window of a house at Meeting House Street was smashed with a rock. If anyone was in that

Gardai have reissued an appeal for information in relation to crash in the Letterkenny area a week ago today.  The two car collision happened in the Ballaghderg area – closed to where the garden centre is situated –  on Tuesday morning last shortly before 11am. One of the drivers involved in the collision sustained quite

Gardai are investigating a weekend assault in Clonmany.  The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, shortly after midnight. A lone male was assaulted on the Main Street of the village close to where the takeaway is situated. The male is unable to provide a description of who was involved. He sustained a

  City of Derry Airport has introduced the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Scheme as an aid to any passengers or visitors to the airport with a disability or impairment this is not visible. It’s the first airport in the north to launch this customer service initiative. Sunflower lanyards are now readily available at key customer points

  Killybegs was Ireland’s most important port for fish landings last year. According to new figures from the Central Statistics Office, the port accounted for 63.1% of all landings by Irish fishing vessels. The total value of fish landings at Killybegs last year was 127 million euro – 99.8 million from Irish vessels and 28

A motorist has been clocked travelling at 173km/h in the Letterkenny area. The Letterkenny Roads Policing Unit were conducting another speed check in the town again last night and arrested the driver in question. Court proceedings are to follow. Gardai are once again reminding the public to adhere to the speed limits.  

  Police in Derry are investigating the criminal damage of a black Ford Focus which was parked in the area of Melmore Gardens and Greenwalk. The windows of the vehicle are believed to have been broken between 2pm on Sunday 26th July and 2.30pm on Monday 27th July. If you have any information which might

  Substantial progress has been made on Derry City and Strabane District Council’s portfolio of capital projects over the last four months, despite the government imposed Covid19 restrictions affecting the building industry. Members were told that work has recommenced on a number of live contracts, and other contracts are now progressing in line with the

11 more Covid-19 cases were confirmed today in the Republic today, none of them in Donegal. No further deaths recorded. It means there have been 1,764 deaths and 25,892 confirmed cases, 472 of them in Donegal. There have been no new coronoavirus deaths in the North. However, there were 21 new cases recorded in the

The cabinet has signed off on a package worth more than 300 million euro aimed at re-opening the schools next month. It will mean schools can open fully from next month with investment for schools to physically adapt and purchase cleaning equipment. More substitute teachers are seen as crucial to the re-opening. Students from third

  Two motorists have been clocked driving at excessive speeds in the Letterkenny area. The Roads Policing Unit in Letterkenny made the detections in the town last night. One motorist was recorded travelling at a whopping 171km/h and the other at 145km/h. In a statement, Gardai say that one of said motorists was arrested and

  Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Donegal County Council presents a competition for the reimagining of the public space at Market Square, Letterkenny. The competition is inviting concept design proposals for Market Square, Letterkenny, that embrace architecture and design in creating great places that people want to experience and spend time in. The

  The first grants for local community groups and micro enterprises in Donegal have arrived from the Fisheries Local Action Group for 2020. The grants are co-funded by the Government and European Union and have been described as a very welcome and timely boosts to the recipients across Donegal. The total value of the grants

  Donegal’s RNLI emergency services had a busy weekend responding to two call outs. Two teenage girls were rescued just north of Portsalon Pier after getting into difficulty while out kayaking yesterday evening. One of the casualties was picked up by a small fishing boat in the area, the other made her way onto rocks

  A number of social welfare payments which were being given out fortnightly due to the pandemic are reverting to being paid weekly. They include one-parent family payment, working family payment, illness benefit, jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker’s benefit. Most of these customers will start to get their weekly payment from the week beginning the 17th