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A road safety campaigner says it’s “unacceptable” and “worrying” that checks on lifts at NCT centres only took place after problems were identified in the north. Initial checks last week found cracking in at least one lift, leading to the suspension of underbody testing at all 47 centres. The National Car Testing Service says new

  A West Tyrone MLA is demanding urgent action on the future of Strabane Out of Hours GP services. It’s understood that the service cover has dramatically reduced in the last year to 26% coverage, meaning there was no out of Hours GP services in Strabane 74% of the time in 2019. On-going funding problems

  Thousands of people are expected at a march in Dublin later in protest at the lack of government funding in the childcare sector. A local protest in support of those in Dublin is getting underway outside the Donegal county childcare committee in Letterkenny at 11.30 am. Organisers, The Early Years Alliance, say the issue

  A meeting is to be arranged in a bid to enhance road signage and information directions for Donegal in the Derry area. It’s thought that more can be done to encourage tourists visiting Derry to come to Donegal with on-going concern that currently there is little in place to entice them across the border.

  A Consultant Geriatrician will today lead a protest at the gates of Letterkenny University Hospital calling for the immediate establishment of an Acute Stroke Unit. The issue has become one of the key talking points of the election campaign after Professor Ken Mulpeter said last month that up to 16 lives are lost each year

  A major research project to be based in Donegal will explore ways to reduce the amount of time cancer patients spend in hospital by bringing some of their treatment into the community. The €160,000 project will see some oral chemotherapy provided in GP community care centres, with the patients carefully monitored so the potential

The country’s acute hospitals are expected to do too much and more supports are needed for community care. That’s the view of the former head of the HSE. Tony O’Brien’s comments come as 640 admitted patients were without beds in irish hospitals this morning, 17 of them in Letterkenny. Mr O’Brien says there aren’t enough

There are 112 fewer psychologists than recommended in the HSE’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. That’s according to the Psychological Society of Ireland, which claims new waiting-list figures are ‘shocking’. The issue has been highlighted several times in Donegal, with claims that proportionately, the North West has the highest waiting times. Nationally, More than

  It’s been claimed that up to 12 women suffered a delayed cancer diagnosis at Letterkenny University Hospital. It comes as a review of the hospitals gynaecological services is underway in light of alleged missed cancers at the unit. Now, it’s been further claimed that there could be at least 10 further cases in the

  Donegal County Council Mica Redress Committee is to meet in just over two weeks time after the regulations governing the scheme were finally signed on Friday. In a statement, the Council says it’s been engaging with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in relation to the Scheme, and that process continues. Further

A new environmental project focusing on cross-community and cross-border relations in the Strabane, Lifford, and surrounding area has been launched. The EU funded Strabane and Lifford Environmental Project will run until December 2020, 110 participants taking part in a series of programmes to be delivered over the next six months. The project is being led

  Almost 19,000 teachers are to strike today in a row over pay. The Teachers Union of Ireland says it’s because those hired after 2011 are paid at a lower rate than colleagues for the same work. The action will result in the closure of hundreds of secondary schools around the country. TUI General Secretary,

The North’s First MInister has told the Stormont Assembly that the executive does support the expansion of the Magee Campus of Ulster University, but a business case will have to be produced. Ms Foster said she expects the issue will be comprehensively addressed by the relevant ministers, but acknowledged it will be challenging. Arlene Foster