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Hundreds are expected to turn out for the Right2Water protest in Letterkenny today which gets underway at 2pm. A total of 30 protests are taking place in 21 counties today. The Right2Water Campaign, which is organising the demonstrations, says it wants to keep the issue on the agenda ahead of the General Election. David Gibney

  Police in Australia’s New South Wales are investigating the death of a 25 year old, believed to be from Northern Ireland. It’s reported he’d been on a houseboat with a group of friends, when he slipped and fell into the Murray River, near the New South Wales border with Victoria. It’s understood he tried

  Police in the north are appealing for witnesses after a man’s body was found on a road in County Tyrone. The man was found at around 4 o’clock this morning on Mountjoy Road at Killeen Village near Coalisland. Police are currently at the scene, and are trying to establish the cause of the death.

Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly is calling for more protection of Ireland’s fishing industry from factory freezers ships. He was echoing calls on Minister Simon Coveney to exclude so called supertrawlers from fishing within Ireland’s territorial waters. The trawlers have been fishing off the Donegal coast sparking an online petition for them to be banned.

  A 23 year old man has been arrested following the search of a house in Derry. The search was carried out yesterday afternoon. Just after 1pm, officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team carried out a proactive search and seized approximately £3,700 worth of suspected cannabis. The 23 year old man was arrested on suspicion

The future of the of the old Ritz cinema in Ballybofey is now in the hands of An Bord Pleanala. An application lodged in October by the local Butt Hall Committee to have the landmark demolished was met with heavy criticism, sparking a well backed online petition Donegal County Council rejected the proposed demolition of

  A security alert is ongoing this morning at an industrial estate in Strabane following the discovery of a suspicious object. Police were called to the Lismourne Place area last night and it’s believed a gym was evacuated at the Dublin Road site. Local Councillor Patsy Kelly:

A Fine Gael General Election candidate in Donegal says he believes the post office network can be strengthened and enhanced following the publication this week of the Post Office Network Business Development Group report. Paddy Harte says the proposals will also support competitiveness. He sees the network becoming hat he termed a series of Rural

Derry City and Strabane District Council and Ulster University have submitted a revised outline business plan for the expansion of the Magee campus in Derry. The plan outlines the preferred option for expansion of student numbers, with the primary objective of reinforcing and enhancing Derry’s reputation as a vibrant University city. It’s envisaged that by

Questions are being asked about how the renovation of a tidal swimming pool project in Ranafast became a priority project for Donegal County Council. Local Cllr Michael Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig says its a project that would not take from other council projects, and if it is to proceed, it will be with funding from

A final plea has been made to residents in Donegal to take part in the Right2Water protest in Donegal tomorrow. Protestors are asked to assemble at Mr. Chippie in Letterkenny tomorrow at 1.30 while the offical protest gets underway at 2pm. It’s the first major anti water charges protest of 2016. Right2Water spokesperson Owen Curren

A Derry councillor says residents living in top floor flats at Gartan Square in the Bogside had a lucky escape last night after a malicious fire was started in a bin shed beside the building Councillor Colly Kelly says the fire was started in the shed at the end of the row which houses the

There have been claims there has been no communication between an expert group established to investigate the issue of defective blocks in Donegal and the Mica Action Group, despite the panel being allegedly set up over six months ago. Thousands of homeowners in the county are thought to be affected by the issue, where their

The funeral is taking place today of former Donegal County Councillor James McBrearty who died this week. Mr. McBrearty was a native of Bogagh in Carrick was a lifelong member of the Fianna Fail party. James McBrearty, a teacher for 46 years also served on Donegal County Council from 1978 to 1980 and again from

    A man from Carrigans in County Donegal who was involved in an incident where eggs were thrown at the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has been bound over at Derry Magistrate’s Court. Aodhan Irwin (21) of Foyle View, Carrigans in Donegal admitted two counts of disorderly behaviour on September 10 last. The court

A Donegal councillor could be on the verge of becoming the oldest ever general election candidate in Ireland. Cllr Ian Mc Garvey, who is currently 85, has confirmed he intends running in the forthcoming general election as an independent candidate. He’s been a member of Donegal County Council for some time, and has served as

A Donegal Councillor says an airport should be developed in Letterkenny to compensate for what he termed decades of neglect. Cllr Dessie Shiels, an independent candidate in the forthcoming general election says while he supports Donegal Airport in Carrickfinn, it’s in an isolated area, and he believes an airport at the Big Isle in Letterkenny

The Sinn Fein President has apologised to Minister of State Joe Mc Hugh after wrongly claiming he has made an appointment to a state board without going through the proper channels. Mr Adams made a personal statement in the Dail last night acknowledging that he had made inaccurate comments during Leaders’ Questions. Mr Adams’ comments

Donegal County Council is being asked why it has not followed through on calls for investment in Grianan an Aileach, with Cllr Jack Murray saying a motion he moved on this some time ago has not been acted on. Cllr Murray says he believes the site has the potential to be Donegal’s biggest visitor attraction,

The average price of farmland decreased last year. A report on the cost of agricultural land shows that nationally, the average price per acre fell to 10 thousand 336 euro in 2015. That’s a drop of almost 2 percent when compared with the previous year.The drop in price in the West and North West was

A review into road maintenance being published today shows that less than one in four defects on the country’s busiest routes were fixed in 2014. Traffic levels have been growing with the economic recovery but the amount allocated to repairs is the same as it was in the year 2000. The report is based on a

Serious concern has been raised following the revelation that over 42% of Urology patients at Letterkenny University Hospital are waiting a year or more for a Day Surgery appointment. The figures, which have been provided by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, show that there are fifty people waiting twelve months or more. Earlier this month,