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Representatives from Lifeline Inishowen held a demonstration outside the Dail today. It was in response to the constant threat of closure the domestic violence service is experiencing after its funding was cut in 2010. Last year the service received €3,200 out of a total budget of €650,000 provided to Donegal for domestic violence support services.

Health care workers at Letterkenny University Hospital say they remain resolute in the dispute with the HSE over pay increases which they claim they are entitled to. Hundreds of SIPTU members at the hospital are on strike today with no progress on moves to break the deadlock between SIPTU and health service management side over

  A cross-party delegation will be receiving a petition from Lifeline Inishowen in the Dail later today. Representatives of the domestic violence service are travelling to Dublin and were hoping to meet with Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone to discuss the urgent need for funding to be reinstated. The service has been under severe threat of

  10-thousand health support staff will strike from eight o’clock this morning. Chefs, cleaners, porters and maternity care assistants are among staff that are walking off the job and onto picket lines at 38 hospitals and healthcare facilities across the country. The dispute is over a job-evaluation scheme – and what SIPTU says is a

  Local transport campaigners ‘Into the West’ have organised a public meeting to look at the future role rail could play in the North West. It comes after the Department for Infrastructure in the North has indefinitely suspended the completion of modernisation work to Derry’s railway line. The meeting will look at how an improved

  House prices in Donegal in the second quarter of this year were 1% higher than a year previously. According to the latest Daft.ie report, the average house price in the county is now €147,000, 29% above its lowest point. Nationally, the average house price in the second quarter of the year was €263,000, up

  A West Tyrone MLA claims MOT no shows are hampering efforts to clear the current backlog. Its emerged that during the week June 10th – 16th, 644 people across Northern Ireland failed to show for their MOT appointment, at a time when motorists are currently waiting up to two months for an appointment at

A Donegal Deputy is calling on the government to make an appropriate offer to healthcare support workers to avoid tomorrow’s industrial action. The HSE and SIPTU are in talks about contingency planning ahead of tomorrow’s action, which will see 10 thousand support staff across 38 hospitals and healthcare facilities engage in a 24 strike. An

The Taoiseach has described the late Fianna Fail Councillor Manus Kelly as a great in the world of Motorsport. Cllr Kelly, a three time winner of the Donegal International Rally, died on Sunday following a collision on the third day of this year’s event. Leo Varadkar paid tribute to Manus Kelly in the Dail this

The government’s Summer Economic Statement will spell out plans for a no-deal Brexit. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will give an insight into the two possible budget plans he’s preparing this afternoon. One deals with an orderly Brexit while the other is in case of the UK crashing out in October. Both are likely to include

    An investigation has been launched after lifesaving equipment was stolen from the Donegal fire service while they were attending the scene of a road traffic crash. Emergency services responded to the two vehicle collision at Burt in the early hours of yesterday morning and while they were attending the scene, a vital portable

  A man has sustained serious head injuries following an assault in Milford.  The attack happened on the Main Street of the town yesterday evening at approximately 5.45pm. The victim was rushed to Letterkenny University Hospital for treatment. Investigations are continuing with Garda Grainne Doherty urging any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward:

  Pressure is mounting on the Children’s Minister to meet with representatives of Lifeline Inishowen when they travel to Dublin tomorrow. A petition which has garnered almost one thousand signatures, is to be submitted to the Dail, demanding that funding be reinstated to the facility. The domestic violence service, the only one of its kind

The Irish Patients’ Association says clarity is needed on the impact tomorrow’s strike by 10-thousand health support workers will have on patients. It says it’s worrying there’s been no explanation on what contingency plans are being put in place. Both Letterkenny and Sligo University Hospitals will be affected by the strike with up to 700

  The government is being urged to amend the National Risk Assessment Plan to include the possibility of a poll on a United Ireland. The plan, which looks at issues which are likely to impact on policy and the economy in the medium to long term is currently the subject of a public consultation. Deputy Sean

  A Donegal County Councillor claims landlords unwillingness to accept HAP payments is forcing people into homelessness. Councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig in raising the issue says there is already a severe shortage of housing and coupled with what he says is the illegal actions of private landlords, is deepening the crisis. A new

  The Irish language will be in serious trouble if urgent action isn’t taken immediately. That’s according to the chairperson of the Oireachtas committee on the Gaeltacht, Catherine Connolly. Later today, it will publish a new report on the challenges facing childcare centres in Irish-speaking areas. It finds only half of them are operating through