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Tory Island has been allocated funding for Comharchumann Thoraí. Islanders applied for the grant to enable them to buy equipment to carry out work to improve the landscape there, boosting local tourism. Various projects will be carried out with funding, including the creation of new focal points on the island and a general facelift for […]

  A new link road off one of Donegal’s busiest roundabouts has opened with the hope it will finally ease major traffic congestion in the area. The Station roundabout in Letterkenny is renowned for serious traffic delays, particularly during peak times. Now motorists leaving Letterkenny Shopping Centre can use an alternative exit which has been

  A new project has officially begun in Termon which will see the old railway transformed into a new cycle / walkway. The Railway line running through Termon is being developed by local community group, Comhlacht Forbartha anTearmann. It’s part of the county-wide initiative to get the old Lough Swilly railway line, which runs from

  A decision is expected today on a controversial €200 million wind farm in the Finn Valley which if permitted would be the biggest on shore windfarm in Ireland. Cork based company Planree Limited is proposing to build the Carrickaduff wind farm with up to 49 turbines but there has been considerable local opposition. Under

  Police at Strand Road are appealing for information after a woman was threatened with a knife. While the incident occured in Derry last Monday, details and the appeal are only emerging now. At around 8.30pm on Monday, 26th, the woman was walking at Stephen’s Court in the Ballymagroarty area when a man approached her.

The Court of Appeal today ordered that Donegal Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill must pay the costs of his failed legal challenge to an investigation by the Standards in Public Office Commission into alleged duplication of expenses claims. The Irish Independent reports that the three-judge court ruled the Fianna Fail Senator had advanced no grounds entitling

Lisa Roohan, 25, who admitted careless driving and giving false information to gardai about a road accident, was given a suspended jail term of 18 months today(Thurs), fined €1,000 and banned from driving for four years. Judge John Aylmer said he accepted from Garda evidence that culpability of careless driving was at the lower end

The AA says a pilot programme to reduce speed in 30 housing estates in Donegal is unlikely to be effective if all it involves in placing 30 kph signs on poles leading into the estates. Six estates in each of the five Municipal Districts have been designated for the pilot programme, which the council says

A 33 year old man has been charged with murdering Natalie McGuinness in Sligo yesterday. Oisin Conroy, of The Mews, Mail Coach Road in Sligo, appeared in Sligo District Court this morning with a heavily bandaged head and wearing a blue hoody. Sergeant Patrick Harney gave evidence that Mr Conroy made no reply when he

A poll carried out by the Tirconaill Tribune newspaper suggests that one third of voters in Donegal will vote Sinn Fein in the next election. The poll reflects a swing of almost 11% towards Sinn Fein and independents. The poll gives 34.5% of the vote to Sinn Fein in the new Donegal constituency, an increase

The European Parliament this week approved plans to reduce toxic emissions that cause air pollution. MEPs voted for more ambitious national caps on emissions of six key pollutants including methane and ammonia. The EU says cattle are big culprits when it comes to emitting methane and ammonia, but Midlands North West MEP Mairead McGuinness says

A man is due in court this morning, charged in relation to the investigation into the murder of a woman in Sligo yesterday. 24 year old Natalie McGuinness died after she was found in a house on the Mailcoach Road yesterday morning. A man carrying a knife was subdued by Gardai using a taser at

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch has officially opened the new Ballyshannon Health Campus, on the site of the former St. Catherine’s Convent. It provides primary care services in the South Donegal area servicing a population of approx 10,000. It also brings together HSE services that were provided from a number of different locations within the

A Ballybofey man says his ‘Clean Up Politics’ campaign is stepping up a gear this week with the launch of a billboard truck which will visit towns across the county in the coming weeks. Tim Jackson who leads the campaign aims to reduce TD’s wages from just under €90,000 to €45,000, along with a raft of

At least 80 jobs are forecast for Strabane under a a 26 million pound scheme. The ‘Three Rivers’ project Group has announced its commitment to a new housing scheme on lands at Curley Hill Road, Strabane. Work on the new 220 unit ‘Bracken Gate’ development will commence in the new year after the completion of

  A charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a man outside Bundoran has been dropped against a young woman. Instead, Lisa Roohan, 25, was charged today with the alternative of careless driving at Ardfarna, Bundoran. The prosecution has dropped the accusation which she faced for 16 months that she was responsible for the

Donegal County Council’s Road Safety Officer says all road users must be extra careful in the coming weeks as winter time sets in. Brian O’Donnell says after the clocks went back last weekend, the driving landscape is very different in the evenings, and bad weather makes the situation even more challenging………….

A Derry Councillor says there’s an urgent need for a review of traffic management in Glenowen and the Bywash. Cllr Colly Kelly says the area, which is close to the Creggan Road, is very low on the Transport NI priority list for traffic calming measures, and he believes it should be higher. He says there

Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy says he believes a pact with left wing candidates could offer Ireland a real political alternative. Yesterday, Sinn Fein confirmed it would sign a document prepared by the campaign group Right2Change, which is urging what it terms left wing candidates committed to a progressive government to enter into a voting

A conference in Cork has been told that in 10 years time, people will look at the decimation of community led development structures in rural Ireland, and ask how that was allowed to happen. Midlands North West MEP Marian Harkin told the conference that instead of encouraging genuine community involvement in local development, the current

  A couple who defrauded the State of more than €44,000 have been given suspended jail sentences. Martin Stokes, 26, and his 25-year-old wife Margaret, who were arrested on EU warrants, yesterday admitted dozens of benefit fraud charges at Donegal Circuit Court. Judge John Aylmer was told the fraudulent claims were made in Ballybofey and

The EU has been criticised following a delay in the abolition of roaming charges. A ban on roaming charges for using mobile phones abroad in the EU has been postponed until June 2017. Clear rules on the right to internet access will also become law following the European Parliament’s final approval yesterday of the new telecoms

  Gardaí will be given new testing kits to catch drivers under the influence of drugs. It is a swab-based kit that will be rubbed on the inside of the persons cheek, and will tell if someone has taken substances like cocaine or cannabis. The new tests are expected to live on a phased basis

A Donegal councillor has described the budget process as a “farce”, claiming that as discussions on the 2016 budget get underway, the entire process is doomed to be meaningless before it even starts. Cllr Dessie Shiels says last years County budget was passed without a line being changed, after hours of hanging around and several

The trial of a woman accused of the death of a man by dangerous driving outside Bundoran is set to start tomorrow. The Circuit Court in Donegal town was told today that the trial of 25-year-old Lisa Roohan could take two to three days. Ms Roohan, from Boyannagh, near Bundoran, is charged with the death