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In a statement issued this evening, Saolta says the Emergency Department at Letterkenny University Hospital has been extremely busy this afternoon and evening. They says its due to both high attendances at the Emergency Department and because some beds unavailable to admitted patients as the hospital has closed them as an infection control measure. Hospital management […]

A man in his 40s has died following a quad bike collision in the Mountcharles area last evening. The driver of the quad, sustained serious head injuries when he came off the bike while travelling on a local road at Mullinboys at around 7pm. He was taken by ambulance to Letterkenny University Hospital and later

A man in his 40s is in a serious condition in hospital following a quad bike crash in the Mountcharles area last evening. The driver of the quad, sustained serious head injuries when he came off the bike while travelling on a local road at Mullanboys near Mountcharles at around 7pm. The man was treated

  An investigation is continuing into a burglary at a house in Convoy in recent days. The break in happened at some stage between Thursday and Friday morning last with thieves making off with jewellery and a sum of money after ransacking the house. The homeowner, an elderly woman, was not in the house when

  There were 23 people awaiting inpatients beds at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the latest trolley watch report. Five people were on trolleys while a further 18 were waiting on wards. University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded with 44 people waiting there. Nationally, there were 377 people waiting at hospitals across

A group of lost walkers were brought to safety last night after getting into difficulty on Muckish Mountain. The alarm was raised at around 6pm yesterday evening with Donegal Mountain rescue dispatched to the scene. The group was subsequently located and escorted off the mountain.

A Donegal Deputy is calling on the Agriculture Minister to clarify when he first became aware that the €50 million beef fund announced by the European Commission was contingent on production reduction. Fianna Fáil Agriculture Spokesperson Charlie McConalogue believes that farmers were clearly misled pre-election with the government message that the compensation package secured would

  Passenger numbers using City of Derry Airport have halved over the last five years. The decline is reportedly linked to the withdrawal of Ryanair’s London-Stansted flights from Derry over two years ago. Figures show that that between 2013 and 2018, the numbers using the council-owned airport have fallen from nearly 385,000 in 2013, to

A public meeting is to be held on Monday evening to discuss the imminent closure of Kilcar Post Office. Yesterday it emerged the villages Post Office has become the latest in a string of post offices closures announced across the county. A meeting is being held next week in Kilcar with the view towards forming

  New Garda figures show 118 gardaí were found to have committed breaches of discipline last year. There were 13 serious breaches, including abuse of official communications, and criminal conduct. According to details released by An Garda Siochána, under the Freedom of Information Act, 118 members were found to have committed breaches of discipline last