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  Homeowners in Donegal are being warned not to become complacent during the sunny spell. Gardai say there have been a number of burglaries in the county in recent times where small scale items that can easily be sold on have been stolen. Crime Prevention Officer Sgt. Paul Wallace is urging people to report any

Recent figures for the Parliamentary Standard Allowance for TDs reveals that over €515,000 was paid out in expenses for March despite only sitting in the Dail twice during the period. Donegal TDs Charlie McConologue, Pearse Doherty, Pat the Cope Gallagher and Thomas Pringle received over €4,300 in expenses while Fine Gael’s Joe McHugh received €1,333

The future of Ireland’s post offices remains uncertain, according to the postmasters union. The group is holding its annual conference in Athlone today, with members calling on the new Government to take swift action. Speaking ahead of the conference the Irish Postmasters’ Union General Secretary says he hope the implementation of the new piloting scheme

There are calls for fire fighters on Donegal’s Islands to be treated equally to those on the main land. A recent meeting of the county’s Islands Committee was told that fire personal on the islands should be paid a retainer fee similar to most of those on the mainland. The issue was raised by Councillor

Police are appealing for information following a number of anti-social behaviour and criminal damage incidents at buildings in the Academy Road area of Derry. The incidents happened over the course of the last week. Sometime between 5pm and 10pm on Wednesday 11 May, a flower pot was thrown through the window of a day centre

  Concern has been raised over the journey people from Inishowen have to make in order to renew or obtain a driving licence. Licences are issued from Letterkenny since the Carndonagh Public Service Office ceased to issue them in 2013 with people having no choice to travel to the town as they must present themselves

    Plans have been submitted to build 800 houses in Derry and if granted, it would be the city’s biggest residential scheme in over 10 years. South Bank Square has revealed it plans to develop land near the Caw roundabout, Crescent Link and Clooney Road area of Derry. The plan of 800 new houses

      Calls have been made to solve major traffic delays at St Mary’s road junction in Buncranna town. At peak times there can be delays of up to ten mimutes in cars on St Mary’s Road getting access to Buncrana Main Street, Councillor Nicholas Crossan says permanent traffic lights at the junction would

    The Donegal Fire service says tackling gorse fires is a waste of their resources and is calling on the public to do all it can to prevent them. There were two gorse fires brought under control yesterday in the Falcarragh and Buncrana areas with another fire currently being dealt with near Kerrykeel. With

  Police investigating criminal damage at an Orange Hall in County Derry have said they are treating the incident as a hate crime. Police said that an attempt was made to set two outside doors on fire at the hall on Brookmount Road, Moneymore. The incident happened at some point between Tuesday and Wednesday last

  It’s emerged that an ambulance taking a young patient from Donegal to Dublin broke down outside Letterkenny last month. The Donegal News is reporting today that the incident resulted in another ambulance being tasked to continue and complete the journey. HSE rules state that an ambulance has to be decommissioned if the vehicle is

    The first building advice expo of its kind in Donegal is taking place next month with people planning to build new homes invited to attend. Build 16 will include talks from a solicitor, an architect, experts in cost saving construction and energy efficiency and is to be held in Letterkenny on June 11th

    Donegal County Council, in conjunction with a range of other Gaeltacht and Irish language organisations and agencies, are currently drafting an Irish Language Plan for County Donegal. This plan will promote and support the increased use of our native language in every area of daily life across the county in the years ahead.

Ten jobs are to be created in Letterkenny as part of a 2 million euro investment by ‘Affidea’ in a new medical scanning facility. Affidea will open the facility at Scally Place in June. It will serve as a primary care diagnostic scanning facility, offering MRI, Ultrasound and X-ray. The company’s CEO Tom Finn says

The Mica Expert Panel are in Donegal meeting with those affected by defective MICA blocks but a Councillor says their work is doomed to fail as their remit is to narrow. Patrick McGowan was speaking after the panel met with councillors in Lifford today . Thousands of homeowners in Donegal are thought to be affected

Sinn Fein says it thinks the current government will only last for a year and a half. Fine Gael is relying on Fianna Fail to support its minority government, by abstaining in Dail votes, but that’s an arrangement that Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty says is unsustainable. He’s sceptical about suggestions that there’s been a radical

  Emergency services are at the scene of an extensive gorse fire in the Falcarragh area. The fire was first reported shortly after 1pm this afternoon. Three units of the fire service are tackling the blaze. Gardai say the incident is confined to one side of the road in a remote area at Dunmore upper

    Detectives in Derry  are appealing for witnesses following an aggravated burglary in the Grangewood Court area last night. During the incident, which occurred between 10.10 – 11.40pm, a 15 year-old boy was assaulted and a sum of money stolen from the house. Detectives are appealing  to anyone who may have witnessed any suspicious

There are calls for funding to be made available immediately to make safe a stretch of the N56 between the junctions of Doon Well and Letterfad. There have been a number of collisions on the stretch between Kilmacrennan and Termon, one of which was fatal. Councillor John O’Donnell says the TII must make the money

Donegal County Council is being asked to clarify if companies contracted to provide services for the authority can treat workers differently to those employed in similar positions by the council itself. Deputy Thomas Pringle says Severn Trent Response, which has been contracted to operate the Letterkenny waste water treatment plant for 25 years is refusing