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  Gardai are currently at the scene of a road traffic crash in the vicinity of the Dry Arch roundabout in Letterkenny.  The minor two vehicle collision happened shortly after 4pm this afternoon. While the road remains open, traffic is passing slowly and Gardai are advising to exercise caution when approaching the area this evening.

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has welcomed an important new cross-border cardiology service which will give Donegal patients suffering from a STEMI heart attack direct access to services in Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry. “This is the first cross-border service of its kind and represents a mile-stone in medical provision in the north west,” Minister Varadkar

The Food Safety Authority ordered ten businesses to stop certain activities last month due to breaches in food related health and safety. Among them was a closure order served on food distribution and wholsesale company Craigs Fresh, based at Drumnabratty in Raphoe. The order remains in place. Full list available HERE

The Greencastle Breakwater is back on the agenda of Donegal County Council with calls on the next government to make available the money needed t finish it. 10 million euro has already been invested in the breakwater but the project was shelved due to the down turn in the economy. There have been claims in

The proposal for a ‘full partnership’ government will be discussed by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in Leinster House this morning. Last night’s face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two biggest parties came 40 days after the General Election result. The offer was made after the two leaders both failed in their efforts to

Detectives from Serious Crime Branch investigating the murder of Paul McCauley in Derry in 2006 have arrested a 61 year old man in England. Two other men, aged 27 and 28, who were detained yesterday in Derry remain in custody. The latest man to be arrested was detained in Kent yesterday and brought to Northern

The Tirconnaill Tribune is reporting today that up to five shots were fired at a house in the vicinity of Ray Bridge on the main Ramelton to Rathmullan road at the weekend. The shots were heard at around 4.20 on Sunday morning. The paper quotes local people as saying this is the second such incident

Workers at one of Ireland’s 999 call centres are on strike again today. The operators at the facility in Navan are taking the action in a long standing row over pay and union recognition. Unions involved in the row say they want every member of staff to be given a living wage of 11.50 per

A shortage of psychologists in Donegal is preventing vulnerable adults from accessing a vital service, according to Deputy Pearse Doherty. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) provides support to people who engage in self-harm and display suicidal behaviour, while also offering assistance to their families. Deputy Doherty has been in contact with families who have been unable

The members of both Ballyshannon Credit Union and Killybegs Credit Union have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the merger of their Credit Unions at Special General Meetings held this week. The merged credit union will be named Ballyshannon and Killybegs Credit Union Limited and is expected to be completed over the next two months. It’s

  Officers investigating an arson attack on a primary school in the Central Drive area of Derry on Monday night  have interviewed three young people in connection with the incident. Two 10 year old boys and an 11 year old girl voluntarily attended Strand Road Police Station today. They were interviewed and subsequently released pending

  Detectives from Serious Crime Branch investigating the murder of Paul McCauley in Derry in 2006 are questioning two men in the city. The suspects, aged 27 and 28, had been arrested last year and were released on police bail but are now being further interviewed at Strand Road police station. Applications for warrants of

  A public meeting has taken place over the future of animal welfare in Donegal following the closure of Donegal Pet Rescue. Issues discussed during the meeting included the need for a re-homing centre to be set up in the county and the need to organise a co-op to act as the umbrella for all

    There’s still no clarity on a timescale for the long awaited three school campus in Buncrana, with this week’s meeting of the Donegal Education and Training Board being told that costs are still being evaluated. The campus is listed on the Department of Education’s Capital Investment Plan 2016 – 2021, but the fear

The Health and Safety Authority is investigating the death of a man in his 30s who died in hospital last night after falling from scaffolding in Falcarragh. The man has been named locally as Michael Carr from Derryconnor, of Gortahork. It’s understood he was working on a roof yesterday morning when the accident occurred.

A judge at Derry Magistrate’s Court has ordered the manager of a social services team to appear before him this Thursday. Judge Barney McElholm was speaking at a sitting of the local youth court after he was told that a bail package that was to be prepared for a 17-year-old who has been in custody

There’s little hope of a Taoiseach being elected today when the Dail reconvenes, 40 days after the General Election. Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin have finally agreed to talk face-to-face for the first time this evening. But it remains to be seen if the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil leaders can come to an arrangement

  Michaella McCollum is set to take an Irish daily newspaper to court. The Tyrone woman has issued legal proceedings over what her solicitor says was an incident of intimidating harassment in the Miraflores area of Lima, Peru on Sunday. Ms McCollum was released from jail in the South American country last week and is

The total number of patients awaiting admission on trollies and on wards at Letterkenny Univeristy Hospital at the end of last month was 191. That’s down 90 on March last year, and down 27 on 2006 when the INMO’s Trolley Watch began. Letterkenny has bucked the national trend, which has seen the figures rise. There

Donegal County Council has been accused of wasting time discussing matters it has no power over, and should instead focus only on local issues. The comments come after a motion calling for the council to recognise the 1916 proclamation was for a 32 county Ireland, and calling on the British to give up any claim

The Letterkenny Institute of Technology student whose body was recovered from the River Swilly close to the Port Bridge yesterday was 22 year old Edward Connell, from Sunset Drive, Cartron Point in Sligo. The second year nursing student had last been seen at around 4 o’clock yesterday morning. A search was initiated after a passing motorist

The membership of the expert panel to examine the presence of MICA insome homes and buildings in Donegal and Mayo has been completed . In January, Dennis McCarthy was appointed to chair the expert panel to investigate the issue, but the panel had yet to be established with recenr local concerns raised that little progress

  A body of a young man has been recovered from the River Swilly this afternoon during a search conducted by Gardai. The search was carried out following the discovery of clothing and identification  in the vicinity of Letterkennys Port Bridge by a passerby earlier today. Gardai have confirmed that the body is that of

Two councillors have confirmed today they have resigned from the SDLP and are contesting the assembly election in West Tyrone on an Independent Social Democrat ticket. Derry and Strabane Cllr Patsy Kelly and Omagh Cllr Josephine Deehan says they both attempted to resolve what they regard as serious internal issues within the party as recently