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Donegal County Council’s traffic wardens have been given new uniforms, which include state of the art personal CCTV cameras. The council says the cameras are designed to provide for the personal safety of traffic wardens while they are doing their job. Donegal County Council is one of the first local authorities in Ireland to introduce

Gardai last night issued a warning through the Finn Valley text alert regarding a yellow transit type van acting suspiciously in the Killygordon area. The van, which had a partial reg ‘151 C’ had an ESB logo on it. Last week on Highland Radio News, Crime Prevention Officer Sgt Paul Wallace warned of people posing

A Donegal General Election Candidate is questioning why Minister Joe McHugh did not attend Saturdays Save Our Services march in the Twin Towns at the weekend. The march took place over concern about the long-stay residential care within the community hospital facilities in Lifford, Ramelton and Stranorlar. It was estimated that over 2,000 people took part

An Bord Iascaigh Mhara is to invest 1.5 million euro to build a Sea Survival Training Centre in Greencastle. The new centre will include further expert training by providing a state of the art simulator pool that can reproduce extreme weather conditions, so fishermen can experience what it’s like to be faced with an emergency

  There have been calls for the NRA to address the road safety issues at Magherabeg School without delay. The school, which has 122 pupils attending is in close proximity to the N13 and is a huge cause of concern for parents and teachers. A recent traffic survey of the National Primary Route showed that

    The inquest into the death of Arlene Arkinson has heard she told friends the night she went missing she might be pregnant. The hearing was also told Arlene was a bright but vulnerable teenager. The 15 year old from Castlederg disappeared in 1994 after attending a disco in Bundoran. She had last been

There’s been an exchange of letters between Independent Councillor and election candidate Frank Mc Brearty and Donegal County Council CEO Seamus Neely regarding comments Cllr Mc Brearty made on his Facebook page. On January 29th, the councillor posted on Facebook that he had written a letter to Council Chairman Ciaran Brogan accusing the council of

A prominent anti-drugs campaigner in Donegal has called for more resources to be given to gardai in Donegal in light of a heroin seizure in Letterkenny at the weekend. A man and woman in their 40s and 30s respectively are due before Letterkenny District Court in March, after they were arrested and charged with possession

Postmasters have called for cross-party and cross-candidate commitment to progressing the Bobby Kerr Report on the future of Post Offices. The Irish Postmasters’ Union is urging all Political Groups and Candidates to ensure that the Irish Post Office Network has a strong economic and social future, irrespective of who forms the next Government. IPU Executive

A Donegal TD says part of the reason for the soaring waiting lists for orthodontic treatment at Letterkenny University Hospital is that some of the specialist chairs there are broken. Deputy Charlie Mc Conalogue says after being contacted bya number of parents, he raised the issue with the Health Minister, who confirmed that a dental

The Save Our Services committee will be meeting in the coming days to consider their next moves following what’s been described as a very successful rally and public meeting on Saturday. The group is seeking guarantees that services will not be scaled back at the community hospital facilities in Lifford, Ramelton and Stranorlar. The group

There are 116,680 people eligible to vote in the Donegal constituency in the General Election on Friday February 26th. Islanders will vote on the previous day, Thursday February 25th. The largest concentration of voters is in the Letterkenny Electoral Area with 31,274 voters, followed by Inishowen with 30,582 and Glenties with 22,318. There are 19,663

The inquest into the death of Arlene Arkinson is to get underway today. The 15 year old from Castlederg disappeared in 1994 after attending a disco in Bundoran. She had last been seen in the company of convicted child killer Robert Howard, who died in prison last year. However, the inquest has been overshadowed by

A man and woman in their 40s and 30s respectively are due before Letterkenny District Court in March, after they were arrested and charged with possession of heroin and cannabis on Friday night. Gardai say €1,700 worth of heroin was discovered along with an estimated €20,000 worth of ca\nnabis resin. The drugs were found during

A dissident republican from Tyrone has been identified by gardai as one of six gunmen who carried out a shooting at a boxing match weigh-in at a Dublin hotel earlier this month. According to the Irish edition of The Sunday Times, police have identified two of the six gunmen who shot David Byrne dead and

The Save Our Services committee is estimating that over 2,000 people took party in yesterday’s rally in the Twin Towns to protest at the proposed removal of core services from three Community Hospitals in Donegal. The includes representatives of the action commitees formed in the wake of the threats to  Ramelton Community Nursing Unit, Lifford Hospital and

  The delivery of Social Authority Housing units in Donegal for 2015 was 40% below target in 2015. Sinn fein have revealed that out of the Governments own target to deliver 65 housing units to the county, only 37 were delivered as of November last year. Currently there are 2,560 applicants on the local authority’s

A united rally takes place later today in Stranorlar in protest over the future of St Joseph’s Hospital in Stranorlar, Lifford Hospital or the Ramelton Community Nursing Unit. The protest gets underway at 1.30 this afternoon at St Joseph’s hospital in Stranorlar and a shuttle bus will be available from Jacksons Hotel, the Finn Valley

Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin has said in power his party would give Lifford Community Hospital all the support it would need. He was speaking on the canvas trail in Lifford today as part of his visit to Donegal. Deputy Martin outlined the concerns that were expressed to him while offering his support to Lifford

AXA Insurance says it is seeking a number of voluntary redundancies, as it consolidates its operations in Ireland. A number of staff currently based in Dublin City Centre have been told their jobs are moving to Derry. A statement from AXA says it has decided to consolidate operations in the interests of efficiency and customer