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Athletics Review: Another Successful weekend for Donegal Athletes

It was another successful weekend for Donegal athletes. LYIT athlete James Kelly won the shot put event at the Irish University Indoor Championships in Athlone. Letterkenny AC’s Eoin McGinley won the men’s category in the Glenmore 10 mile event. Finn Valley’s Mark Mc Paul finished in second while Michael Black finished third. Teresa Doherty, fresh off

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World Tug of War International Federation Treasurer looks ahead to World Indoor Championships

The World Indoor Tug of War Championship takes place in the Aura Leisure Centre, Letterkenny on February 20th to the 23rd with one thousand athletes from nineteen countries expected to compete. Thursday and Friday’s event will see an number of clubs competing whilst Saturday and Sunday will see the national teams compete. Treasure of the

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GAA Preview: A look ahead to Derry’s top of the table clash with Kildare

Derry play host to Kildare on Sunday afternoon in a top of the table clash in Division 2B of the National Hurling League. Both sides have started their league campaigns with two wins and have aspirations of being promoted to Division 2A. Michael McMullan of the County Derry Post joined Tom Comack to preview Sunday’s

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Mickey McCann believes his Donegal side must keep winning if they want a Play-Off place

Donegal Senior Hurling manager Mickey McCann believes his side must keep winning their games if they want a Play-Off spot in the National Hurling League. His side travel to Louth on Sunday as they look for back to back wins in Division 3a of the National Hurling League. Tom Comack was joined by Donegal Hurling manager

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Derry City’s McCormack believes there’s positives to take from last night’s defeat

Derry City captain Conor McCormack believes there are some positives to take out of last night’s 1-0 defeat to reigning Premier Division champions Dundalk. The Candystripes frustrated Dundalk and looked to be leaving Oriel Park with a point but Dane Massey fired in from a corner 12 minutes from time to give Dundalk all three

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Sean Connor hails his side’s performance after last nights draw at Warrenpoint Town

Institute manager Sean Connor was full of praise for his players after a Gavin Smith own goal late in the game earned them a 2-2 draw away at fellow struggles Warrenpoint Town. Danny Wallace netted what looked to be the game’s winner with six minutes left but Stute who were behind twice, equalised for the second

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€289,000 worth of Cannabis seized in Sligo, Roscommon and Mayo

Five arrests have been made after €289,000 worth of cannabis was found in Connacht. Searches were carried out in Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo. Four locations in all were searched yesterday – with five men now in Garda custody. Two separate premises in Ballaghderreen in County Roscommon were searched with €161,000 worth of cannabis plants and

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Sinn Fein TD believes another election is a real possibility

Sinn Fein’s Louise O’Reilly believes another election is a real possibility. However, she says that all avenues to forming a Government must be explored. Both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have reiterated their intention not to go into a coalition with Sinn Fein – which makes forming a Government more difficult. Deputy O’Reilly says that

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Work to begin on delivering free public WiFi hotspots in Donegal

A programme to provide free public WiFi hotspots in a number of smaller towns in Donegal is progressing, with work on connections starting in the coming weeks. €30,000 will be invested in each Municipal District. This week, members in Inishowen were briefed on what’s happening there. WiFi4EU is an EU sponsored initiative to create free

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Over 17,000 awaiting first consultation at LUH in January

Over 17,000 patients were waiting for a first hospital consultation at Letterkenny University Hospital at the end of January. Figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund also reveal that over 2,000 people were awaiting inpatient or day case treatment. 17,757 patients were waiting for a hospital outpatient consultation as of the end of last month,

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Barry McNamee reacts to Finn Harps North West derby win over Sligo Rovers

Finn Harps picked up their first win of the season with an opening night victory over Sligo Rovers. In a new look Harps side that boasted 10 new faces in the match day squads. It was a debutant, Karl O’Sullivan, who netted the winner for Ollie Horgan’s men. Another one of Harps’ new signings, Barry McNamee, came off

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Plans for phase 2 of Burtonport/ Arranmore Regeneration Project published

Donegal County Council is inviting people to have their say on the second phase of the Burtonport/ Arranmore Regeneration Project. Phase 2 of the project proposes the construction of a new harbour building and a separate enterprise building. The Councils newly formed Regeneration & Development Team has published plans for new buildings as part of

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Need for safety works at Quigley’s Point junction is highlighted

Donegal County Council has confirmed that €30,000 is to be spent on the Quigley’s Point junction where the Carndonagh Road meets the Derry Moville Road. Inishowen Municipal District was told this is an initial allocation for safety works, with members calling for more funding to address the risk of serious collisions. Cllr Terry Mc Crossan

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Status yellow rainfall warning issued for entire country

A status yellow rainfall warning has been issued for the entire country as Storm Denis approaches. Met Eireann says there will be spells of heavy, thundery rain on Saturday, which will lead to some flooding. Some possible disruption as a result of damaging gusty winds is also expected. Alan O’Reilly from Carlow Weather outlines what

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