Author name: oisinkelly

    There are calls on Donegal County Council to install an additional temperature sensor which is referred to in road gritting decisions to be installed in North Inishowen.    It follows a number of collisions in the peninsula believed to have been caused by black ice – one in December and most recently, the

The state of the dairy sector in Donegal is being discussed at an IFA County Executive meeting in Letterkenny’s Clanree Hotel tonight. County Chairperson Brendan Mc Laughlin is encouraging all dairy farmers to attend, saying the are a number of potential issues facing the sector, all of which will be explored…………

Investigations are continuing into the discovery of a grow house in the Drumrooske area on Friday last. A search as part of an ongoing operation by Gardai into the sale and supply of drugs in the Donegal Town area uncovered between 450 – 500 cannabis plants at varying stages of growth, with an estimated value

A man has appeared in Court following a weekend incident in which a Garda patrol car was rammed in Inishowen Gardai received a report on Saturday morning of males in a car acting suspiciously. Upon locating the vehicle at Stragill beach, attempts were made to stop the car before it accelerated towards the patrol car,

Fáilte Ireland is hosting a series of workshops in Inishowen later this month for local tourism businesses and members of tourism and community groups. The workshops will concentrate on gathering stories, ideas, and opportunities that could be used to boost tourism in the area with the findings then feeding into a Visitor Experience Development Plan,

The board overseeing the National Children’s Hospital project says they will ‘robustly defend’ extra contractor claims. Chairman Fred Barry told a meeting with Health Minister Simon Harris these costs represent the ‘biggest risk’ in the project. The minutes of the recent meeting have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. The hospital is set

A number of homes and businesses in Donegal remain without power this morning after Storm Brendan. Its after strong winds and heavy rain caused power cuts, fallen trees and flooding when it hit yesterday. The issue is confined to the Cullion and Derrybeg areas. ESB hopes to have power restored to all areas by 5pm

WARNING CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGERY An 18 year old man has been arrested after a taxi driver was assaulted in Strabane in the early hours of yesterday morning. At around 1am on Monday morning, the taxi driver picked up a fare in the Abercorn Square area of the town and took him to Glebe Gardens where

As Storm Brendan grows in intensity, we will provide any updates here. Donegal County Council and the RSA have urged drivers, cyclists and pedestrians to be very careful on roads. Households and businesses in Cullion and Derrybeg are currently without power, ESB Networks say there is no indication as to when power will be restored The

A Sports Capital grant of almost €327,000 has been announced for the development of a sports campus project at Letterkenny Institute of Technology. The investment will see LYIT working hand in hand with Donegal County Council, Ladies Gaelic Football Association and Cricket Ireland to draw up a plan and assess how to bring the proposal

Its emerged that Seaview Respite Service in Mountcharles has not opened today, as was scheduled. The HSE had confirmed that the centre would reopen today on a 5 day a week basis. However, parents were left furious upon being informed just this morning that the centre would not be opening. The centre was due to

With an election on the horizon, questions are now being asked about the Terms of reference for the Mica Redress Scheme, which have yet to be published. Donegal Deputy Charlie Mc Conalogue says this is not an issue that needs Dail approval, and he sees no reason why the document should not be published immediately……….

A Consultant Geriatrician at Letterkenny University Hospital says if an Acute Stroke Unit is not approved and established in 2020, he will not remain at the hospital. Professor Ken Mulpeter says a unit had been approved before the flood of 2013, and again it was approved last year, but was sidelined because of what he

Peter Casey has confirmed he will be contesting the upcoming general election. The former Dragons Den investor will seek a Dail seat in Donegal. He came second in the 2018 presidential election and missed out in a bid to become an MEP last year. He says he will be focusing on the need for investment

The Labour Party leader is urging Leo Varadkar to end the agony of the current Dáil and announce a date for a general election. Brendan Howlin says the Taoiseach’s fired the starting gun anyway, after yesterday stating that he has a date in mind. There’s speculation an election will be called in the coming days

The Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh has today announced a further €50 million investment in ICT infrastructure for all primary and post-primary schools. The funding can be spent on technology which will allow schools to purchase equipment such as PCs, laptops and tablets. This will then aid supports for schools such as the

Finn Harps have said they are ‘surprised and disappointed’ after being left out of a sport capital grant from the Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund. The €77.4m fund, which is to be allocated between 25 individual projects around the country, was announced on Friday by Minister for Sport Shane Ross. Over €1m was already spent

Met Éireann’s extended a status orange warning for storm force winds tomorrow to the whole country. Storm Brendan will bring sustained southerly winds of up to 80 kilometres an hour — with gusts up to 130 kilometres an hour. The warning comes into effect at 5am tomorrow for counties in the west and southwest, and