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The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that a former Irish dancing teacher in Donegal ordered to pay €400,000 compensation to a former pupil he had sexually abused had wrongly transferred property into his wife’s name . The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed Michael Quigley’s appeal against a previous High Court finding that the

The Road safety Group Parc has asked for a specific date as to when the RSA will provide an online database on drink driving court cases as a matter of urgency. In a Dail reply earlier this month, Transport Minister Pascal Donohoe said the Department was working to extend their monthly reports to the Road

More searches are planned in a bid to locate missing Derry man John Concannon. Mr Concannon, who is 71, has been missing since Tuesday November 10. The last confirmed sighting is on CCTV footage on a bus at Lenamore Road near the Derry/Donegal border. Chief Inspector Alan Hutton, Operations Manager for Derry City & Strabane

  A man has been killed in a workplace accident in Barnes, outside Donegal Town earlier this afternoon. It’s understood the man believed to be 29 years old was clearing trees in the area when the incident happened. Gardai say they are not treating the death as suspicious. Emergency services are currently at the scene

  One in five gardai have been injured on the job in the last five years with almost a third injured in Donegal, according to figures from the Department of Justice. The Times reports that more than 580 officers were injured last year, with the annual cost of compensation for injuries being 15 million euro.

  A new joint taskforce has been set up to tackle cross border crime. Ministers from north and south of the border met earlier to discuss the details of the taskforce – which will be led by the Gardai, the PSNI and revenue officers. The cross-jurisdiction force will aim to tackle criminal gangs operating across

A Limavady based coach hire company has hit out at people who set fire to one of their wheelchair buses in Omagh a week ago. In the early hours of Sunday morning December 13th, an attempt was made to steal the bus, but it had a tracker device fitted, and the thieves could not move

The PSNI have made a 13th arrest in the murder investigation following the death of Derry man Paul Mc Cauley in June, almost nine years after he was attacked at a barbeque in the Waterside. The 28 year old man detained in Belfast last night is from Derry. Police say over the past six months,

West Donegal Councillor Micheál Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig says other members have refused to back his call for a walkout from the chamber over Cllr John O’Donnell’s failure to resign. The Independent councillor’s call followed Cllr O’Donnell’s appearance on an RTE Investigates Programme during which he was secretly filmed, apparently being offered money to support

Top Ten #LittleThings you can do for your mental health 1. Talk it out: We’re all guilty of harbouring our personal problems/stressful situations, not wanting to burden friends and family… but we need to realise this is merely a short term solution to a long term problem. Conversations are crucial & take a surprising amount

Police in Fermanagh are continuing their investigations into the death of a seven year old boy following a collision near Belcoo at lunchtime yesterday. The boy was rushed to South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen after the crash on the Lattone Road at 1 o’clock, but was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. The main Garrison to

The twin sister of Mary Boyle has expressed her disappointment following Micheal Martins rejection to meet with her. Ann Doherty has written to Micheal Martin for a second time but to receive a reply stating the Fianna Fail leader was unable to meet with her and has arranged a meeting with the party’s Justice Spokesperson

  An investigation is underway following an overnight armed robbery at Matt’s takeaway in Raphoe.  A masked man entered the premises at approximately 8.45 last night threatening two members of staff and demanding the contents of the till. The was no damage done to the premises but the man made off with a sum of

Top Ten #LittleThings you can do for your mental health 1. Talk it out: We’re all guilty of harbouring our personal problems/stressful situations, not wanting to burden friends and family… but we need to realise this is merely a short term solution to a long term problem. Conversations are crucial & take a surprising amount

A Councillor said he was shocked and disappointed to learn that the HSE has no idea how many of its employees are absent from work, sick, due to stress. Responding to Councillor Gerry Crawford, the HSE says it recognises the problem of stress on staff and has some initiatives in place to help but doesn’t

      Donegal Oireachtas members have this week met with representatives of the HSE urging them to take over the running of Aras Gweedore nursing home in West Donegal. The facility is run by the local community but its been claimed that anticipated future demand, coupled with the need to meet with HIQA requirements

Contracts have been signed that will allow construction of a new courthouse in Letterkenny to begin. It is expected that work will start early in New Year and be completed by December 2017. It is part of a multi-million project to provide new court facilities across the country. Three new courts will be built in

There has been a fall in the number of sexual offences recorded in Donegal since last year. 86 incidents of rape or assault were recorded in Donegal in the year to the end of September of this year, a fall of 5 on the previous period. Nationally sexual offences increased by 14 percent. There were

It’s 38 days since Derry man John Concannon disappeared after apparently getting on the wrong bus at the Foyle Street Bus Station on November 10th. John, who is 71 and has dementia and hearing difficulties, was last seen on CCTV footage on the Leenamore Road, close to the Donegal border, where he got off the

A 35 year old man has been charged with a number of offences including criminal damage, handling stolen goods and another 10 offences including cultivating cannabis and possessing a class B controlled drug with intent to supply. He is due to appear at Derry Magistrates Court today. The charges follow a search at a house

A 50 year old man has died in a crash outside Ballygawley in Tyrone. Three others were injured in the two vehicle crash which happened on the Omagh Road shortly before 7 o’clock last night. The man who died was 50-year-old Kieran McSorley, from the Omagh area, a front seat passenger in one of the

The SDLP has selected West Tyrone representative Daniel McCrossan to replace Joe Byrne as West Tyrone MLA in the Assembly in the New Year. It emerged earlier this month that Mr Byrne was stepping down for health reasons. Mr Mc Crossan was the party’s unsuccessful candidate in West Tyrone for the last Westminister election, a

The twin sister of Mary Boyle has identified a new location in Donegal where she suspects Mary may have been buried and says the site has never been searched. Ann Doherty has written to the Garda Commissoner Noirin O’Sullivan requesting the area be sealed off as a matter of urgency and forensically examined by a

Arlene Foster’s been formally elected as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. She’ll also become the first woman to lead Northern Ireland when she takes on the role of First Minister next month. Ms Foster, a 45 year old native of Rosslea in Fermanagh, replaces Peter Robinson who stepped down as DUP leader for health

Gardai in Donegal and the the PSNI in Derry are launching their annual cross-border drink-drive campaign later today. Gardai say that drink driving detections are up 6% in Donegal this year, while road deaths in the county have also increased significantly, despite national figures showing an overall decrease. Chief Inspector Micheal Harrison says they will