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Next week is Enterprise Week in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, with a number of events planned to support and guide local small and medium enterprises. There will be a focus on Brexit, and also on the ongoing cooperation with Donegal County Council. Joanne Breslin is the council’s Business Support Manager……….. More

Tributes have been paid to Brendan Mc Laughlin, the 51 year old Stranorlar man who became Ireland’s longest surviving transplant recipient. Brendan, who had Cystic Fibrosis, received a lung transplant at Freeman’s Hospital in Newcastle in 1992, and since then, he’s been a health campaigner and advocate for change in legislation governing organ donation. At

  Gardai are appealing for information after an elderly woman was robbed in Letterkenny at the weekend. The 77 year old was approached by two men near the Courtyard Shopping Centre car park at around 7.30pm on Sunday evening last. One of the men forcefully grabbed her wallet and the two made off in the

  It’s emerged that a woman from Inishowen has been scammed a large five figure sum after falling victim to a bogus caller. A male rang the woman in November, impersonating a representative from Eircom and stating that there was an issue with her broadband. The man seemingly provided relevant numbers and the call led

An investigation has been launched following an aggravated burglary in Manorcunningham. Four masked men entered a house in Drumcairn at around 8.15pm last night, it’s understood that they were armed with weapons. Gardai have confirmed that the occupants of the house were uninjured but have been left badly shaken. The scene remains sealed off and

The community of Buncrana has created five additional mobile libraries. The miniature libraries are located in a number of areas around the town and operate on the take a book drop a book principle. There had been a few such libraries already established in the town but a decision was made to add more to

There are calls for the Fisheries Local Area Action Group Strategy to be extended to include Magheraroarty. The FLAG programme is administered by BIM and last year funded 47 coastal projects in Donegal. Glenties Councillor Micheal Cholm MacGiolla Easbuig is this year calling on funding to be secured for the provision of a building and

West Tyrone MP Órfhlaith Begley says she has received a positive response after challenging Tánaiste Simon Coveney to recommit €400 million for the A5 upgrade. At a committee hearing in Leinster House, the West Tyrone MP also asked Mr Coveney to guarantee that the deferral of €27 million to meet the National Children’s Hospital shortfall

The British Prime Minister thinks a Brexit deal is within grasp. There will be no deal agreed today as she meets EU leaders including Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Egypt, but Theresa May remains convinced there can be one before March 29th. She told reporters today she is not entertaining the idea of an extension to

An investigation has been launched into a large-scale clearance of mature trees and hedgerows at Grianán Estate in Inishowen, after a Government official alleged a breach of environmental protection laws. According to the Department of Agriculture, works at the 2,400 acre estate were on a “significantly larger scale”. Department records, released under Freedom of Information

New figures have revealed that a total of 539 planned operations at Letterkenny University Hospital have been cancelled over the past two years. The data also shows that insufficient bed capacity at the hospital was the primary reason for the overwhelming majority of surgeries having to be cancelled since 2017. Only 19 patients cancelled appointments

Irish Water has agreed to consider replacing a two kilometre stretch of pipe in Falcarragh after what’s been described as the 16th burst on the network in just over two years. Donegal County Council Cathaoirleach Seamus O’Domhnaill says when he raised the issue before, he was told a replacement programme wasn’t justified, but after discussions

A Castlederg Councillor is urging the PSNI and Gardai to prioritise an operation to stop what he says is a gang responsible for a series of thefts and robberies in the Castlederg and Finn Valley area. Cllr Ruairí Mc Hugh was speaking after thieves were interrupted at 5.30 yesterday afternoon as they attempted to take

  An investigation is continuing after a valuable cross was stolen from a church in Greencastle. The burglary occurred at St Finian’s Church of Ireland, the oldest of the five churches in the parish. The break-in was discovered by two members of the congregation on Friday, when it appeared that an intruder had forced open

New figures show the number of ambulance call outs in Inishowen rose by 12% between 2016 and 2018. A total of 2,335 call outs were made on the peninsula last year with 1,968 of those dispatched from the ambulance base in Carndonagh, meaning the rest were dispatched elsewhere. The data also shows that the majority

  Funding has been secured to upgrade the road at one of the county’s worst accident blackspots. An investment of around €50,000 is understood to have been secured for safety works at Knock Crossroads, Ballybofey and at Rockfield Road Navenny. Knock Crossroads has been the scene of numerous accidents as recently as last weekend, with

  A school climate strike is to be held outside the Donegal County Council Building in Lifford next month. The strike, organised for March 15th by a secondary school student from Buncrana, aims to highlight the frustration and discontent of school children at the inaction of Government on the issue of climate change. It comes