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  The DUP says it can’t support the Brexit deal currently on the table. Arlene Foster’s party says it has issues with the customs and consent mechanisms in the draft deal. It dashes hopes of an agreement being put to EU leaders at a summit in Brussels today. Late night talks put the broad brush […]

  There were 24 people awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning with two on trolleys in its Emergency Department. The number is up one on yesterday’s figure of 23. University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded with 71 people waiting there. Nationally, there were 535 people waiting at hospital across the country

  A 41 year old man arrested under the Terrorism Act in relation to a security alert in the Beechwood Avenue area of Derry has been released following questioning. The incident remains under investigation. He has also been released pending a report to the public prosecution service for other offences.

    The friend of a student allegedly raped by two men has told a trial she underestimated how drunk she and her friend were. But Senior Counsel for the defence put it to the alleged rape victim that her detailed description given to gardaí of the route she took home was “not a description

A 41 year old man arrested under the Terrorism Act in relation to a security alert in the Beechwood Avenue area of Derry on Monday night has been released following questioning. Police say the incident remains under investigation. The man has also been released pending a report to the public prosecution service for other offences.

Two men have been arrested today by detectives investigating criminality linked to INLA. A 57 year old man was arrested under the Terrorism Act in the Galliagh area of Derry and a 19 year old man was arrested under the Terrorism Act and the Misuse of Drugs Act in the Strabane area. Both have been

A 25 year old man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of Derry toddler Kayden McGuinness. Liam Whoriskey, of Glenabbey Gardens, Derry has also been found guilty today of one charge of child cruelty. The three-year-old was found dead in his bed in Derry in September 2017. Following an 18 day long trial and

    There’s been a pawistive outcome of a case involving a peticularly unusual suspect at Letterkenny Garda Station.  It’s understood that the lost dog wandered into the station last night. In a statement issued earlier today, Gardai said that the pooch spent a ruff night at the barracks and appealed to the owner to

    People are being urged to have their say on upgraded works to a bridge in Inishowen. Donegal County Council is currently inviting submissions from the public in relation to the extension and widening Coyles Bridge, located in the townland of Meenavanaghan. It’s a single span bridge which carries the R240 between Quigleys Point

  There were 23 people awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the INMO with 5 on trolleys in its Emergency Department. The number is down five on yesterday’s figure of 28. Nationally there were 559 people waiting at hospitals across the country today.

An alleged rape victim has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that she was “blind drunk” when two men had sex with her. The woman was a student at a college in Co Donegal when she was allegedly raped by the two defendants in February 2015. In a trial that began last week,

Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. has described meeting Pope Francis in the Vatican as a moment of incredible warmth. The Donegal TD was in Rome as the Government’s representative at the canonisation ceremony of Cardinal John Henry Newman, founder of University College Dublin on Sunday. As part of the ceremony in St

Gardaí in Buncrana are looking for information regarding the theft of 1000 litres of home heating oil. The oil was stolen from a house at Magherabane, Linsfort, Buncrana on Thursday the 10th of October, between 10:30am and 1:30pm. Speaking on the Community Garda Slot on the Nine til Noon Show, Garda Grainne Doherty is urging

  An investigation is continuing after a car was set alight in south Inishowen.  The incident happened in Bridgend in the early hours of yesterday morning. A car which was parked to the rear of The Frontier Hotel in Bridgend was set alight by 2 males (As per CCTV). There was a car parked nearby which

  A significant amount of farm animals have been stolen from a farm in Kilmacrennan. Gardai in Milford are investigating the theft of 8 ewes and 3 lambs from farmland at Leitir on a date between the 2nd of October and the 9th of October. Anyone who hears any information that might assist with the

  A security alert in Derry that resulted in a number of homes being evacuated has been described by the PSNI as an “elaborate hoax.” Shortly before half eight last night, a suspicious object was found in an alleyway in the Beechwood Avenue area. Those who were told to evacuate returned to their homes shortly

  There were 28 people awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the INMO with six on trolleys in its Emergency Department. The number is up four on yesterdays of 24. University Hospital Limerick was once again the most overcrowded with 80 people waiting there. Nationally, there were 587 people waiting

17 long-serving councillors who bowed out at May’s local elections are to receive retirement gratuities of least 70,000 euro each. In Donegal, the late Cllr Sean McEniff is among them, receiving almost 72,500 thousand euro. According to details released under the Freedom of Information Act, Longford’s Luie McEntire got nearly 80,000 euro. In total, at

  With Halloween fast approaching, Gardai in Donegal are warning over the dangers of fireworks. They are also reminding if people are caught with fireworks, they will be dealt with accordingly. Gardai are warning that it is an offence to possess a firework with intent to supply or supply, without a licence, throw an ignited

  The Fanad East Public Water Supply has been placed on the EPA’s watch list for pesticides due to exceedances for MCPA detected in September and October. Irish Water say the supply will remain on the watch list until one full season of at least monthly compliant results is obtained and submitted to the EPA.