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  Staff and election campaign supporters in and around Donegal’s polling stations are reporting a steady turnout this afternoon. A total of 132,000 voters are eligible to vote right across the county until 10pm tonight, after polling stations opened at 7am this morning in what’s the first Saturday election since 1918. High turnouts so far

  People living on the five islands off Donegal cast their votes in the General Election yesterday with Arranmore seeing a 51% turnout. Tory, the second largest island in the county, saw a 41% turnout while 10 out of the 29 people inhabiting Gola voted, equating to 34.4%. 17 people out of 63 voted on

  A number of homes in Omagh were evacuated overnight following a security alert in the Glenside Housing development on the outskirts of the town. The Leisure Complex had been offered as temporary accommodation as Army Technical Officers checked a suspect object on the Glencam Road which was later declared by police as ‘nothing untoward.’

  Polling stations have opened across the country for today’s general election. Voters are taking to the polls in what’s the first Saturday election since 1918. Polling stations are open across the country with people casting their ballots in election 2020. Stations will stay open until 10pm this evening. You don’t need to bring your

  A Foyle MLA says it’s vital that everyone in Derry and surrounding areas up the pressure for the expansion of the Magee campus of Ulster University. Karen Mullan says the key aim must be to have the first students enrolling in the proposed medical school there in September of next year. A meeting took

Met Eireann has issued a status orange wind warning for Donegal, Galway and Mayo. The alert for Donegal and Mayo will come into effect at noon tomorrow, and last until 4pm. The warning for Galway will take effect from 1 o’clock tomorrow afternoon until 6pm. Winds of up 120 kilometres an hour are expected across

    It’s emerged that a cat has been shot in the face in the Lifford area. Last weekend, two volunteers from Donegal charity Animals In Need spotted the cat whilst they were carrying out routine Trap/Neuter/Return of feral cats in the area. X-rays of the injured cat this week have since revealed that the

    Four drivers in the Letterkenny area have been caught drug driving in a significant overnight operation. Both the Letterkenny Roads Policing Unit and the Letterkenny Drugs Unit were involved in the joint operation. Four drivers were detected driving whilst under the influence of drugs namely cocaine, cannabis & benzodiazepines. Garda are warning the

    Gardai in Donegal have revealed that several Garda stations in the county have been targeted by people claiming to be calling on behalf of Amazon. They say that stations right across the division received a lot of calls over the past few days and have issued a warning to the public. In a

  Two status yellow warnings have been issued for wind and rain as Storm Ciara approaches. The wind warning comes into effect from 9 o’clock tomorrow morning until midnight on Sunday. The rain warning is from midday tomorrow until 3 o’clock on Sunday. Winds of up to 110 kilometres an hour are expected with possible

  The health watchdog has found a number of areas of concern at a centre for people with disabilities in Donegal. While there were a number of improvements made since a previous inspection in the summer, the inspector found that there continued to be issues of violence at Ballytrim House. The latest inspection was conducted

  The first votes of General Election 2020 will be cast in Donegal today with 750 people eligible to vote on the county’s five inhabited offshore islands. Arranmore Island has the highest number of registered voters, Inishfree has the lowest. There are 513 registered voters on Arranmore Island, with voting taking place today from 10am

  It’s the final day of the general election campaign with parties making the last pitches for votes. Polling centres will open in just over 24 hours. It’s 25 days since Leo Varadkar stood outside government buildings and announced he was calling an election. Since then millions of doors have been knocked on across the

Derry City and Strabane District Council have approved planning requests for a number of new housing developments in Sion Mills and Derry. A total of 88 new dwellings received planning approval, 15 at Melmount Road in Sion Mills, 24 on the Letterkenny Road at Ballymagowan, and 49 in the Waterside area of Derry. The buildings

    The Aontu leader is paying tribute to the former MLA Francie Brolly who’s died suddenly. He was one of the founding members of the party after he left Sinn Fein in 2018. Peadar Toibin says he had tremendous political insight and he stood up for his principles. Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein

There were 25 people awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the INMO. The number is down eight on yesterday’s figure of 33. University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded with 63 people waiting there. Nationally, there were 518 people waiting for a bed at hospitals across the country today.

  Police are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision in the Glengalliagh Road area of Derry on Monday night. Police on patrol came across a two-vehicle road traffic collision involving a Ford Focus and Fiat Punto. This happened close to the Northside Village Centre, just before 9.30pm. The Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue

  Donegal County Council is working towards providing facilities for leisure craft at the Boat Yard at Mevagh, but says there are a number of steps which must be taken before a project can begin. The issue was addressed in a response to Cllr Liam Blaney, who asked what progress is being made in securing