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The Fire Service came under attack while trying to put out a fire on the Moss Road in Galliagh tonight. A number of items were placed on the road and set on fire, and then fire service personnel were attacked when the arrived to deal with it. Sinn Fein Councillor Sandra Duffy says it was

    The Director of Public Prosecution’s appeal against the sentence handed down to Shaun Kelly, the Co Donegal man found guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people, has been adjourned today. Kelly was sentenced to four years imprisonment in December 2014 with the final two years of the sentence suspended. 26

The army bomb disposal team have been tasked to an area in Strabane where police are conducting searches.  The searches are believed to be part of investigations into dissident republican activity. There are no further details at this stage.

    Police are currently searching the Beechmount Avenue/Ballycolman area of Strabane. The searches are believed to be part of an investigation into dissident republican activity. Earlier it was reported that police were investigating claims that shots were fired at the local police station in the town on Saturday last. It’s not yet clear if

Independent Councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig has been accussed of making a ‘contrived’ and ‘ill-informed’ argument against Irish government support for a new air link from Derry to Dublin. He criticised a Sinn Fein Councillor’s call on the government to support the route. The call came from Cllr Gary Doherty, but opposing it, Councillor

The Director of Public Prosecution’s appeal againsty the sentence handed down to Shaun Kelly, the Co Donegal man found guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight people, will be heard today. Kelly was sentenced to four years imprisonment in December 2014 with the final two years of the sentence suspended. 26 year old

It’s emerged that the closure of the Revenue Commissioners Customer Service desk in Donegal Town is permanent, with calls for the service to be restored immediately. Deputy Pearse Doherty says it’s a ‘disgraceful’ move which was done without consultation, with most people assuming it was a temporary measure to cover summer holidays. The walk-in counter

Donegal Deputy Charlie McConalogue says urgent action needs to be taken to reduce rural crime in the county. He claims that residents in communities across Donegal have expressed their fears over the increase in crime. The main cause of concern cited is the decrease in Gardai in Donegal, with 71 gone from the force over

New figures from the Road Safety Authority show more than 500 disqualified drivers were involved in collisions causing serious injury or death in recent years. Data from between January 2013 and March of this year in today’s Irish Times, shows there were 521 such incidents. However the RSA says new measures giving Gardai powers to

Double-killer John Gallagher told a court that he was in fear of his life when his estranged brother threw a stone through the windscreen of his van. John Gallagher appeared at Falcarragh District Court, sitting in Letterkenny, to give evidence as the only witness in the case against his brother, Donal. Gallagher shot his ex-girlfriend,

    A Glasgow nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is recovering well after the virus caused her to develop meningitis. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, who has family roots in Rannyhual near Kincasslagh was readmitted to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London earlier this month after suffering an apparent late complication

  Gardai have issued a crime alert warning for the Ballyarr/Ramelton area.  A white transit van has been reported to be acting suspiciously in the area earlier this afternoon. Anyone with information is asked to contact Milford Garda Station on 07491 53048.  

    Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, TD has approved the Connaught-Ulster Alliance application to proceed to Stage 2 of the Technological University process. It is the next stage in creating a formal alliance between IT’s in Donegal, Sligo and Galway. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Institute of Technology, Sligo (IT Sligo) and

  The Government’s announced a plan to rebuild and refurbish dozens of Garda stations around the country with Donegal Town Garda Station set to benefit from the project.  Around 60 million euro in funding from the department of justice and the OPW will be invested, along with millions more in public private partnerships between 2016

A Donegal Councillor says he is still awaiting a response from the Irish government to Dail questions about barrels of munitions dumped off the Donegal coast. Dail questions have been posed calling on the government to commission an immediate and thorough risk assessment report into the quantity and make up of chemical munitions included. Councillor

A Donegal councillor has claimed the setting up of a Dublin route from City of Derry Airport would not be of any great benefit to the people off Donegal, and has said the state should not provide funding for it. Yesterday, Cllr Gary Doherty who is seeking a Sinn Fein general election nomination, urged the

The Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Council Cllr. Ciaran Brogan is leading a Donegal delegation to New England this week, with a key conference taking place in Boston today and tomorrow. The delegation includes the Councils Chief Executive Seamus Neely, the Donegal Diaspora Project Manager, Aideen Doherty and Michael O’hEanaigh, who will shortly be taking up

Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, the Cayseway Hospital in Coleraine and the South West Hospital in Fermanagh are to be included in a new programme of unannounced acute hospital inspections being rolled out in Northern Ireland. The BBC reports this morning checks will be operated by the Regulation, Quality and Improvement Authority, an independent health and

Sinn Fein’s Justice Spokesperson has called on the Minister for Justice to actively seek to introduce a cross border joint task force to address cross border crime. Speaking in the Dail, Donegal Deputy Padraig MacLouchlainn urged Francis Fitzegerald to adopt that recomendation contained in a report on crime commisioned by British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Responding, Minister

The Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has confirmed that fresh allegations made in relation to the disappearance of Mary Boyle are being reviewed. Mary Boyle went missing from her grandparents farm at Cashelard near Ballyshannon on the 18th of March 1977. Earlier this month Mary’s sister Ann attended Pearse Street Garda Station along with the country

The Irish Government is being urged to commit to providing funding for the proposed Derry-Dublin air route, which is expected to commence in April 2016. Backing the call, Donegal Councillor Gary Doherty said authorities at City of Derry Airport have recently submitted a formal funding request to the Government for funding of just over £185,000

Donegal County Council was one of only nine local authorities to meet Traveller accommodation targets between 2009 and 2013. Figures collated by the Irish Traveller Movement show the council committed to building 30 units and delivered 55, a surplus of 83%. Conversely, in Sligo, only 20 of a proposed 69 units were built, a shortfall

The owner of the Lough Foyle Ferry has confirmed to Highland Radio News that the boat has been put on the market, and there has been interest from prospective buyers. Jim Mc Clennaghan was speaking after the prospective sale of the boat was raised at a recent meeting of councillors from Inishowen, at which fear