Donegal has failed to feature on TripAdvisors annual list of Ireland’s best beaches. Kerry featured heavily in the Top Ten, which was determined by those who travelled and submitted high praise on the website. However, the list has led to questions locally over why beaches here were excluded from today’s publication. Inchydoney Beach in Clonakilty, […]
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Donegal GAA chairman Mick McGrath has confirmed that Donegal will not revisit the subject of addressing what they see as an imbalance in the structure of the Super 8s that allows Dublin to play two games at Croke Park. His comments come after Donegal brought a motion to the GAA Congress last Saturday – although
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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
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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
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Cabinet Ministers will this morning consider a bill aimed at keeping people in mortgage arrears in their homes. The bill makes it a requirement for judges to take a number of factors into account when ruling on repossession orders. The Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will this morning seek cabinet approval to publish a bill
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Derry City got back to winning ways on Monday night with a 3-2 win at home to Waterford. Martin Holmes reports from the Brandywell…
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Finn Harps played out a nil all draw with St Patrick’s Athletic on Monday night. Coilin Duffy reports from Richmond Park…
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An operation targeting INLA criminality in Derry has resulted in the seizure of over 28,000 cigarettes and almost 20kgs of hand-rolling tobacco. Other counterfeit goods and mobile phones were also seized today during searches carried out by HMRC officers and supported by the PSNI at 11 shops in the city. On foot of the operation
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Main Evening News, Sport and Obituaries Monday February 25th:
Main Evening News, Sport and Obituaries Monday February 25th Read More »
Jason Black has finished second in the Race Across Oman in a time of 40 hours and 13 minutes. The race, which is over 1,000km of non-stop cycling, is considered one of the toughest endurance races in the world as it is a self-supported ultra-cycling event. Black finished behind Peruvian Rodney Soncco, who had a
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World Motorsport superstar Ken Block has confirmed on his social media that he plans to take part in the Joule Donegal International Rally this June. The American is partaking in a world tour in a Ford Escort Cosworth which gets underway on St. Patrick’s weekend and he says that the Donegal Rally is a Tarmac
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A pedestrian has died in Coleraine after he was hit by a car on Quille road shortly before five o’clock yesterday evening. The 30 year old man was treated by paramedics, before being taken to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, where he was later pronounced dead. The road has since been reopened.
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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
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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
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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
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There were 12 people awaiting admission to Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to the latest trolley watch report. Two people were on trolleys in its Emergency Department while a further 10 were waiting on wards. Sligo University Hospital was the second most overcrowded today with 42 people waiting there. Nationally there were 488 people
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40 new jobs are being announced this morning for Carrick-on-Shannon and Dublin. The new positions are with the County Leitrim based lender Avantcard following a new partnership announced last year with An Post. The announcement of these new jobs comes on the back of an additional 58 people joining the Avantcard workforce over the last
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Secondary schools will soon be able to share teachers in subjects like Irish, maths and languages. The Education Minister is urging principals to sign up to the scheme, which is to deal with a shortage of teachers. Minister Joe McHugh has today announced a new scheme to allow post-primary schools to share teachers in priority
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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
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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
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Derry City host Waterford FC at the Brandywell Stadium on Monday night as they look to recover from their 2-0 loss to Shamrock Rovers on Friday. Waterford come into the game off the back of a 2-0 of their own over rivals Cork City. Derry boss Declan Devine told Kevin McLaughlin that he’s looking to
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Donegal have lost two of their four league games so far in this year’s Division 2 of the National Football League. Sunday saw them lose out to Fermanagh by 0-13 v 0-10, in a game that saw them control much of the action and lead by 0-08 v 0-04 at half-time. A poor second half
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2-17 v 0-07 was the final score at the O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny when the Donegal Ladies recorded their third win out of three games in the LIDL Ladies National Football League by beating Monaghan. Roisin Friel and Julie Trearty scored Donegal’s goals either side of half-time. Oisin Kelly and Maureen O’Donnell looked back on
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The Donegal Hurlers were beaten by Down in Newry on Sunday by 3-21 v 1-15 in Division 2B of the National Hurling League. The damage was done in the first half as Down scored all three of their goals in that first period. 3-11 v 0-08 was the score at the break. Donegal are still
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Declan and Brian Boyle finished second overall in the Birr Stages Rally in their Fiesta WRC, 24.8 seconds behind winner Josh Moffett in his Ford Fiesta. Top seed Roy White finished third in a Fiesta WRC, 1 minute 18.9 seconds behind Boyle. Peadar Hurson and David Bogie made up the rest of the top 5,
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The Ulster Senior Cross Country Championships took place at Lurgan on Saturday and it was a good meet for the City of Derry Spartans Club. Breege Connolly was the individual winner of the women’s championship while the men’s team won the team title for the third year in a row. The winning team members were
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With fierce displays of stamina, strength and speed, WAAR or the Wild Atlantic Adventure Race is one of the most challenging adventure races in Ireland, and this year it returns once again to the West Donegal coast with headline sponsor Randox Teoranta in tow for the fifth year. This year’s WAAR promises to deliver a
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The motion put forward by Donegal GAA at GAA Congress to prevent sides from nominating Croke Park as a home venue in Inter-County Championship matches has been defeated. 64% of delegates voted against the motion, with it needing 60% of the vote to pass. Donegal GAA Chairman Mick McGrath spoke on behalf of the motion
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Ireland picked up their second win from three games in the Six Nations on Sunday, defeating Italy 26-16. Elsewhere over the weekend, Ulster had a big 54-7 win over Zebre in the Pro14. Alex McDonald reviewed those and all the weekend’s rugby action on Sunday Sport…
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Letterkenny Rovers and Cockhill Celtic will face off the USL League Cup Final following their semi-final wins on the weekend. On Saturday night, Letterkenny took on Bonagee in the first of the semi-finals and that was won on penalties by Rovers. The game finished 1-1 after extra-time and Letterkenny needed just 2 of their spot
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Brian McCormick Sports Premier Division Kildrum Tigers 3 vs 0 Donegal Town FC Cappry Rovers 3 vs 0 Rathmullan Celtic Milford United FC 3 vs 1 St Catherines FC Temple Domestic Appliance D1 Lagan Harps FC 1 vs 3 Gweedore Celtic Donegal Physiotherapy & Performance Centre D2 Deele Harps FC 0 vs 4 Whitestrand United
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Ulster Junior Cup Semi Finals Cavan Town 0-1 Glengad United Greencastle FC 5-2 Castlefin Celtic Buncrana Credit Union Cup Round One Illies Celtic 0-2 Clonmany Moville Celtic 4-2 Rasheney FC Aileach FC 5-0 Redcastle United Sea Rovers 1-2 QPS Culdaff FC 1-4 Cockhill Youths Strand Hotel First Division Gleneely Colts 4-2 Aileach Res Inishowen Engineering
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Derry are top of Division 4 as they maintain their 100% winning start to the National Football League beating Wicklow on Sunday by 2-08 v 0-09. Derry led by 4 points at half-time, 2-03 v 0-05 and added another 5 points in the second half to make sure of the win. Next up for Derry
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Donegal lost to Fermanagh in Division 2 of the National Football League on Sunday by 0-13 v 0-10 at O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny. It’s Donegal’s second loss in a row after losing out to Tipperary last time out. It looked good for Donegal at half-time as they led by 0-08 v 0-04, though they lost Caolan
Back-to-back losses for Donegal in Division 2 of NFL Read More »
Simon Coveney insists the EU cannot compromise on the backstop. The British Prime Minister has set March 12th for a vote on her withdrawal agreement, saying she needs time for further talks with the EU – but her critics have called it a reckless delay designed to ‘run down the clock’. The Tanaiste says the
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Gardaí in Donegal have issued a warning over a new game targeting children and vulnerable people on social media. The ‘Momo’ Challenge is a form of cyber bullying which asks the person contacted, often children, to perform a series of dangerous acts. In the Momo Challenge, children and vulnerable people are tricked into communicating with
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Finn Harps are back in action tomorrow night when Ollie Horgan’s side takes on St. Patrick’s Athletic at Richmond Park (kick-off 7.45). It’s a quick turnaround for Harps after the energy sapping draw with Dundalk at Finn Park on Friday night. Recovery for part-time players is more difficult but Horgan isn’t using that as an
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1-16 v 0-12 was the final score as Tyrone earned their first win of this year’s National Football League, beating Monaghan at Healy Park in Omagh. Peter Harte scored 1-06 for Tyrone while Conor McManus hit 0-07 for the visitors. Tyrone scored 8 points in a row in the second half, keeping Monaghan scoreless for
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Tyrone were 1-16 v 0-12 winners over Monaghan on Saturday night in a bottom of the table clash in Division 1 of the National Football League. Peter Harte scored the only goal of the game with just three minutes played at Healy Park in Omagh and that goal was the difference between the side at
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Fans are in for a real treat when a host of former domestic and international stars line out on 5 May 2019 for the Ryan McBride Soccer Sixes in honour of the much loved former Derry FC captain and the Foundation set up in his name. The Foundation set up by Ryan’s father, sisters and
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Institute beat Dungannon Swifts 2-0 at the Brandywell Stadium on Saturday in the NIFL Premiership to leapfrog their opponents into seventh in the league table. Jamie Dunne scored on 13 minutes to put ‘Stute ahead and then Joe McCready made sure of the three points with a strike on 81 minutes. Eamonn McLaughlin was there
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Ulster Junior Shield Milford UNited Reserves 4 vs 3 Glenree Utd Saturday Division Two Cappry Rovers Res. 2 vs 3 Fintown Harps Voodoo Venue Cup Glencar Celtic 4 vs 1 Dunlewey Celtic St. Catherine’s Reserves 1 vs 3 Castlefin Celtic Reserves Strand Rovers 3 vs 1 Kildrum Tigers
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City of Derry lost out to Malahide by 18 points in Division 2C of the All-Ireland League on Saturday. 45-27 was the final score at Judge’s Road. Alex McDonald was there for Highland Radio Sport… Elsewhere in Division 2C today, Omagh lost out to 26-21 against Tullamore.
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The double header at O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny starts tomorrow with LIDL Ladies National Football League clash between Donegal and Monaghan at 12 noon. Donegal have a 100% record so far, getting a big win over Dublin in their opening game and then defeating Mayo last time out. Monaghan sit bottom of the table with two
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Derry have three wins from three in Division 4 of the National Football League and sit in second place behind Leitrim due to the O’Rourke county’s superior scoring difference. This round of fixtures sees them host Wicklow at Maghera tomorrow at 2pm, with the Leinster side sitting fourth in the table. A win for Wicklow
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The Donegal Hurlers are yet to pick up a point in Division 2B of the National Hurling League and will most certainly be in the relegation playoffs next month against Warwickshire. This weekend they take on a Down side who have 2 wins from 3 and sit third in the league table. Veteran Donegal hurler
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