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  It’s been claimed that the home help list in Donegal has effectively exploded with almost 300 people waiting to be allocated hours. Updated figures released to Sinn Féin showed that there are currently 286 people waiting for home help in the county. Speaking today, Pearse Doherty says hours are being allocated elsewhere in the

  Donegal Action for Cancer Care are calling for the prostate needs of Donegal men to be an election issue for all candidates. There are currently eight Prostate Rapid Access Clinics in Ireland, all located in the lower half of the country. DACC first raised the need for a Prostate Rapid Access Clinic at Letterkenny

  Donegal County Council is being urged to meet with Irish Water to discuss a coordinated programme of road reinstatement following the extensive works in Letterkenny over the past year. The issue was raised by Cllr Gerry Mc Monagle, who told Letterkenny Municipal District that the Circular Road in particular is in need of repair.

  Concern has been raised that there is still no definitive date for when Seaview Respite House in Mountcharles will reopen in full.  The facility hasn’t been operating fully for almost a year now and there have been a number of false dawns since as to when the service would resume in its entirety. An

  The Mica Action Group is urging local banks to meet with affected homeowners at a special event next month. The group has been engaging with banks and financial institutions for some time now with the findings to be published at an information evening at the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny on February 18th. The Government

    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