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A yellow wind warning has been issued for Donegal. It will be unseasonably windy tonight and for a time tomorrow. The warning will come into effect from 8pm tonight and will remain in place until 1pm tomorrow afternoon. People are advised that given the time of year, there may be some low level impacts from

  Covid-19 testing is to end at the Community Testing Centre situated at the Lakeside Camping and Caravan Centre, Ballyshannon from today.  People requiring testing will be seen at the Community Testing Centres in O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny, Co Donegal or in Finisklin, Sligo. Both centres have capacity to deal with the small number of referrals

    People will be allowed to travel anywhere within their county under a further easing of lockdown measures from Monday. It goes beyond the planned extension of movement to 20 kilometres. Cabinet Ministers met this morning and approved new measures to take effect from Monday that will allow people to move anywhere within their

  Further meetings are taking place today to discuss how schools can reopen in the autumn. The Department of Education is having discussions with teachers’ unions, to consider how they can operate post-Covid. Hygeine, cleaning and the training of staff are among the items on the agenda. Schools are due to open on a phased

  Donegal is among twelve counties which have recorded no deaths linked to COVID-19 in the last week. New figures also show healthcare workers continue to make up nearly a third of all cases. The latest information on COVID-19 deaths across the country show that twelve counties recorded none in the last week, and 13

  Donegal County Council has advised that resurfacing works and other associated works near Lifford are to start next week.  Works on the N14 between Tullyrap to Rossgier are to begin from Monday and will take about 10 weeks to complete. Traffic flow will be maintained and pedestrians will be diverted around the works. The

  A decision is set to be made next month on plans to demolish a derelict hotel in Inishowen to make way for a new build café and holiday homes. The Pollan Beach Hotel in Ballyliffin has been vacant since 2007 and has been described as an ‘eyesore’ in the planning application. Plans have been

  The temporary wage subsidy scheme is set to be extended until August. It involves the government subsidising the wages of about half a million workers during the pandemic. According to The Irish Times, the cabinet will extend it until the end of the summer today. The pandemic unemployment payment will also be extended –

  Phase two of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions is likely to get the go ahead today. Cabinet ministers are expected to approve the next step of the lifting of restrictions with some measures brought forward to earlier than expected. It’s expected phase two will get the go ahead today. It would mean that from

A further 5 people with Covid19 have died here. 38 new cases have also been confirmed. It brings the death toll in this country to 1,664 while there have been 25,142 confirmed cases. For the thirteenth day in a row, there were no new cases announced in Donegal, with the county’s total number of cases

Detectives in Derry are appealing for information a serious assault in the Shantallow area in the early hours of Monday 1 June. A man, aged in his 20s, was punched and kicked by a number of males. He remains in hospital, having undergone surgery for a broken jaw. It happened between the Carranbane Walk and

Three men from Tyrone, Derry and Armagh have been arrested following what’s been described as the biggest ever drug seizure in Northern Ireland. The PSNI and the National Crime Agency recovered 600 kilos of cannabis from a lorry in Templepatrick, Co Antrim, early yesterday morning. The haul has an estimated street value of between 10

Water supplies in Letterkenny have been impacted as a result of a burst water main. Irish Water say customers along High Road area of Letterkenny may be affected, and traffic management measures are in place while the burst is dealt with. It is expected that the repairs will be completed by 3.00pm today. Meanwhile, in

  The McDonald’s Drive Thru in Letterkenny is reopening today with new measures in place to help keep employees and customers safe. This follows a successful pilot in May. With restaurant teams adjusting to new procedures to enable safe working and social distancing, things may take a little longer – and high demand is anticipated.

  The administrative guidelines for the Mica Redress Scheme have been formally circulated to Donegal County Councillors yesterday. It has been described as a weighty document but the Council intend to break it down to a user friendly version in the coming days and it’s expected that it will open for online applications as soon

  Gardai have arrested a third man in connection with a shooting in Limerick in 2015. On the 29th of June, 5 years ago, at approximately 6.35am a man in his 50s was shot and injured by two masked men as he parked his car in the grounds of the University of Limerick. On Tuesday,

  Four important Donegal community projects have today been granted funding of €356,000, Minister Joe McHugh has announced. Major funding is going to the Leitir Corn Mill in Kilcar with support also for a project to build a new multi-purpose hall in Ray, Manorcunningham. The funding is being released from the Department of Rural and

  It’s emerged that the state is paying €8,000 per return trip to keep Donegal airport open. The Government has paid a subsidy of more than €8,000 for each passenger return journey in a bid to keep air routes operational between Donegal and Kerry airports and Dublin throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Irish

  It’s expected that an Autism Therapist will be appointed to serve in Inishowen in the coming weeks. Deputy Charlie McConalogue says he’s been told in response to queries that there was significant interest in the position after it was advertised, and interviews recently took place. He said many people and their families in Inishowen

  The Pandemic Unemployment Payment is to be cut by 42 per cent for part-time workers. The Irish Independent reports the 350 euro a week payment will be reduced to the Jobseeker’s allowance rate of 203 euro. The payment for full-time workers will be phased out over time. The emergency scheme is to due to

    Irish Water has declined a request from a West Donegal councillor for a site meeting to discuss outages in the Curransport, Derryconner and Meenlaragh area. The request had come from Cllr Michael Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig. In a letter to Cllr Mac Giolla Easbuig, Irish Water says the Derryconner and Curransport mains rehabilitation

A further 3 people with Covid19 have died in the Republic. 47 new cases have also been confirmed. It brings the death toll to 1,659, while there have been 25,111 confirmed cases. No new cases have been confirmed in Donegal, where the figure remains at 477 for a 12th consecutive day. Earlier today, eight further

The Burtonport Festival, which was to have taken place in July, has been cancelled. The organisers say they hope to run a small festival with a series of events on a smaller scale from the 25th-27th september. These plans are dependent on the successful re-opening of the country, and will be reviewed closer to the

Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a man in County Limerick in 2015, one of the arrests was made in Donegal.. A man in his fifties was shot by two masked men as he parked his car in the grounds of the University of Limerick on June 29th that year.

People are being encouraged to have their say on the proposed Donegal Town One-Way System Due to Covid 19 restrictions currently in place, viewing of the plans and particulars for this proposed development will only be available for inspection or download online until 5pm Tuesday 23rd June. It is proposed to introduce a One-Way System

The Irish Wheelchair Association says a Garda clampdown has led to a sharp increase in disabled bay fines. The force collected over 870,000 euro from drivers in 2018 and 2019. Last year in Donegal, 101 drivers were fined a total of €16,010. The standard fine for someone who parks or stops in a disabled bay

  An appeal has been made for a missing woman who could be in Donegal. Maura Donnelly who is from Caolisland was last seen at 2pm yesterday afternoon. Maura was driving a white Hyundi i30 with the car spotted in the Strabane area. Her family believe that Ms. Donnelly may have crossed the border into