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Donegal Mountain Rescue are currently enroute to Malin Head to assist an injured walker. The alarm was raised shortly after 5:30pm this evening. The extent of the walker’s injuries are currently unknown.

The HSE has admitted that the discovery of medical files earlier this year in and around Letterkenny occurred after a break-in to a medical records centre. The file of an elderly woman was found by a family in the Bernard McGlinchey Town Park last month. A second person then came forward to say that they

Irish Water is working to repair a burst water main in the Letterkenny area this afternoon. A number of homes and businesses across the town including in the Circular Road, Oatfield Terrace, Muchish Avenue, Long Lane, Slieve Snacht, Errigal Road, Meadowbank, Hazelbrook, Manorview, Fairgreen and surrounding areas are experiencing supply disruptions. Works are estimated to

  Gardai in Letterkenny are investigating an armed robbery. A man armed with a knife entered Kernan’s Shop on Lower Main Street at around 10.30pm last night demanding money. He left on foot with a sum of cash and a quantity of cigarettes. The area was sealed off for a time this morning and a

  Gardai are currently carrying out a forensic examination at a premises in Letterkenny. The area on lower Main Street is currently sealed off. There are no further details at this stage.

There were 19 people awaiting in-patient beds Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the INMO, nine of them on trolleys in the Emergency Department. That’s up 10 on yesterday’s figure. Nationally, the INMO says there were 456 admitted patients awaiting beds in Irish hospitals this morning, the largest number, 70, at University Hospital Limerick.

  The inaugural meeting of the CHO 1 Islands Services Project Group has heard that a significant amount of work needs to be undertaken over the coming months and years, to ensure high quality sustainable health services for the Islands population. The HSE Primary Care Island Services Review Report (2017) was formally launched in November

The cabinet will consider updated plans to limit the damage of a no-deal Brexit this morning. Tánaiste Simon Coveney is bringing three memos to Government updating contingency plans. Twice already everyone has marched up to the cliff edge of a no-deal Brexit in March and April – and twice it’s been delayed when the EU

Irish Water and Donegal County Council are about to begin a pipe replacement project at Tamnawood, Lifford. They say old and damaged water pipes will be replaced with new, high density plastic pipes, leading to reduced leakage and bursts. The works will commence in the coming days, and should be completed by late September. The

The Donegal Education and Training Board has made six senior appointments to its team of Principals and Deputy Principals in four of its post-primary schools. Donegal ETB is the largest education and training provider in the county, and manages fifteen out of the county’s twenty-seven post-primary schools. In Carrick two appointments have been made to

A Letterkenny area councillor says he has allocated money to the Lennon Festival, but the committee probably has not been informed of that fact yet. Laat week, festival Chairperson Anthony Mc Cahill told Highland Radio that only one councillor had supported the event in its 50th anniversary year. Cllr Michael Mc Bride says after he

Police in Strabane are investigating a hit and run involving a jeep stolen last week in the Castlefinn area. Its reported the jeep, a Burgundy coloured Suzuki collided with another motorist on the Barnhill Road in Strabane on Monday last. The jeep which was reported stolen in Castlefinn has since been recovered after being abandoned

Letterkenny Chamber has warned of fake €20 notes in circulation after one was taken by a local business at the weekend. The warning says the notes are of high quality.  

  Two Donegal TDs were denied the full amount of one of their annual allowances last year because of their poor attendance record at Leinster House. An analysis of expenses paid out in 2018 by the Houses of the Oireachtas reveals that both Donegal Deputies Pearse Doherty and Thomas Pringle were paid less than the

Nine people were awaiting in-patient beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the latest trolley watch report. Two people were on trolleys in its Emergency Department while a further 7 were on wards. University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded with 61 people waiting there. Nationally there were 352 people waiting at hospitals

  A patient’s risk of dying after a heart attack varies significantly depending on their hospital. On average, around 5 in every 100 heart attack victims don’t survive. Letterkenny University Hospital is slightly above the national average at 5.80. However, nearly 9 in every 100 who attend Bantry General or Portiuncula Hospital die within 30

  The Tánaiste has warned there’s now a significant chance of a no-deal Brexit in October. Simon Coveney will bring updated contingency plans to his cabinet colleagues tomorrow. The Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney says the government now thinks there’s a significant chance of a no-deal Brexit. Writing in this morning’s Irish Times