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  Consumer spending in the hospitality and tourism sectors in the North West has increased. According to AIB’s Hospitality and Tourism outlook for 2019, an estimated €183m was spent in restaurants and pubs in the region last year. According to the Outlook, consumers spent in the region of €96m in restaurants last year, while pubs

  Irish Water has confirmed that works on the Pearse Road, Oldtown Road, Ballymacool Road and Slate Row in Letterkenny will cease for the last two weeks on November until mid January. Projects are being carried out in the town to improve both the drinking water supply and sewer network to benefit businesses and residents

  Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh has announced that Cockhill NS has been given the green light for important external works at the school. The project has been approved by the Department of Education and Skills’ Building Unit under the Emergency Works programme. Education Minister Joe McHugh says the work to ensure there

Detectives from PSNI’s Organised Crime Unit have welcomed the sentencing of two women at Derry Crown Court earlier today, following the seizure of drugs with an estimated street value of over £130,000. 38 year old Piper McClenaghan from Limavady was sentenced to three years imprisonment, half to be served in custody and half on licence

  Derry City and Strabane District Council says work is continuing to ensure homes affected by the weekend flooding in Sion Mills and surrounding areas are restored to normality. In the wake of Sunday night’s flash floods which damaged several properties in the area, the council says a number of support funds have been made

  Over 300 Big Beach Clean-ups took place across Ireland over the weekend with at least 45 tonnes of marine litter removed. With the involvement of the National Spring Clean programme, the Big beach Clean 2019 was opened to all residents of Ireland, including volunteering groups who are not based around the coast, who tackled

A woman is in serious condition in hospital after her car struck a fence and consequently overturned in a river in Ballyshannon. The crash happened shortly after 4.30pm at Cavangarden on Sunday afternoon. The 22 year old was driving a silver Bora and was travelling from the Donegal Town direction towards Ballyshannon. Anyone witnessed the

  The Twin Towns is the latest area to be hit with a spate of burglaries. Thieves targeted a home in at Blackrock Drive in Ballybofey on Saturday evening last. The occupants of the house were attending Mass at the time of the incident. Two rear windows of the home were forced open and the

There’s been a 208% rise in the number of people awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital. This morning, there were 40 people awaiting beds, up 27 on yesterday’s figure, making Letterkenny the fourth most overcrowded hospital in the state this morning. 14 of those waiting today were on trolleys in the hospital’s Emergency Department.

  A man remains in a serious condition at Letterkenny University Hospital following a collision at Rossgier Lifford last week. The single vehicle crash happened on Friday afternoon last at approximately 3.50pm. The vehicle in question, a silver Toyota was travelling from the St Johnston area towards Lifford when it collided with a pole. The

  Gardaí are continuing to appeal for witnesses to a fatal road traffic collision at Clar Donegal Town.  The single vehicle crash happened just after 8pm on Sunday night. 69 year old Kathleen Pryal was fatally injured as a result of the collision. Anyone was on that stretch of road at the time and witnessed

Almost half of speeding cases before the courts in Donegal are struck out. Over 1400 speeding offences have been listed in the county’s courts over the last two and a half years. 46 per cent of these speeding offences listed in courts across Donegal between 2017 and the end of May of this year were

  It’s emerged that the latest public inquiry into the planned A5 improvements should get underway within four months. The North’s Department of Infrastructure has indicated it still hopes to begin Phase 1 of the project next year. West Tyrone MP Orflaith Beglay has been told the latest Public Inquiry into the planned A5 Upgrade

  Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will meet the British Prime Minister in New York later to discuss Brexit. It’s the second time in a matter of weeks the two leaders have met as the Brexit deadline looms. After a day mainly dealing with climate change yesterday the government’s focus at the UN general assembly today will

A Killybegs woman has appeared at Donegal Town District Court, charged with having €10,000 worth of cocaine for sale or supply. 23-year-old Chanelle Murrin of Emerald Drive in Killybegs, is charged with having the drugs at the Abbey Hotel in Donegal Town on March 15 last year. A garda gave evidence of the arrest charge

The funeral has taken place in Derry of Bishop Seamus Hegarty, who died on Friday after a long illness. The Kilcar native became Bishop of Raphoe in 1982 at the age of 42, before becoming Bishop of Derry in 1994, where he served for 17 years, before retiring due to ill health.# In his homily,

  There were 13 people awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the INMO with four on trolleys in its Emergency Department.  University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded with a record 81 people waiting for a bed there. Nationally, there were 534 people waiting at hospitals across the country today.

Archbishop Eamon Martin has appealed to anyone with information about the location of the remains of any of the dissapeared to come forward, after the latest search for the remains of Columba McVeigh was called off. The fifth search for remains in a bog near Emyvale in County Monaghan, organised by the Independent Commission for

  A woman has died following a road traffic collision near Donegal Town. The 69 year old pedestrian was fatally injured after she was struck by a car at Tinnycahill, Clar last night at approximately 8pm. She was pronounced dead at scene and her body was removed to Letterkenny University Hospital where a post mortem

  Three people are expected to appear at Derry Magistrates Court this morning charged with drug offences. The two men aged 19 and 54 and a 45 year old woman were arrested following a search of a property in the Eglinton area on Friday night. Drugs including suspected cocaine, herbal cannabis and ecstasy tablets were

  There has been a serious overnight road traffic collision on the N15 between Donegal Town and Ballybofey at Clar. Barnesmore Gap remains closed to Heavy goods vehicles which are being diverted via Glenties. There is a local diversion in place for smaller vesicles. The disruption is expected to continue for the next couple of