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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has begun a major public consultation as it prepares to draw up its strategy for protecting and promoting human rights and equality. Chief Commissioner Emily Logan says people are being asked to outline what they believe should be done foster a more equal and just society in which

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has given a commitment to meet with Mary Boyle’s Twin sister Ann Doherty. Mary Boyle disappeared from her grandparent’s farm at Cashelard near Ballyshannon on the 18th of March 1977. It is now Ireland’s longest running missing person case. Last week, Ann Doherty visited Pearse Street Garda Station along with the country

Concerns have been raised once again in relation to progress on the proposed three- school Crana campus in Buncranna. The current Crana College has eleven prefabs on site but does not have the capacity to expand on site. It’s a year tomorrow since Donegal Deputy Charlie McConalogue raised the issue with Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan

Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has accused the Government of dragging its heels in relation to Donegal’s Mica block crisis. Investigations are on-going across as hundreds of homes across the county have been affected. Deputy Mac Lochlainn raised his concerns directly with the Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly recently after his apparent refusal to meet with

The Taoiseach’s held a meeting with victims of the Omagh Bombing and family members of some of those who died. Enda Kenny says he assured them that the Government would continue to work to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice. Mr Kenny gave no specific commitment to support calls for a cross border public

  Several fire appliances from each side of the border were deployed earlier this afternoon to combat a blaze at an industrial unit in Bridgend. The call was received at approximately 12.40pm this afternoon and the incident continued for the past number of hours as fire fighters from both the Donegal and Foyle fire service

    Serious Crime Branch detectives investigating offences committed at the wake and funeral of Peggy O’Hara in Derry in July, have arrested a man in the city this afternoon. The suspect, aged 40, has been taken into custody at Musgrave Police Station in Belfast for questioning. A number of searches are also being conducted

  Several fire appliances from each side of the border have been deployed to combat blaze at an industrial unit in Bridgend.  It’s understood a number of appliances from both the Donegal and Foyle Fire Service have been deployed and are currently at the scene. The call was received at approximately 12.40pm this afternoon and

A Derry GP has declared as an independent candidate in the next Assembly elections. Dr Anne Mc Closkey will contest the Foyle constituency on an anti-austerity ticket. She has been involved in a nuimber of meetings with independent councillors and others from both sides of the border, including Derry and Strabane councillors Gary Donnelly and

A man’s been arrested in Derry in connection with a death in Glasgow 21 years ago. Officers from Police Scotland assisted by detectives from PSNI Serious Crime Branch detained a 39 yr old man in Derry this morning as part of an investigation into the death of 24 year old Derek Sheerin, who was found

A Donegal-born Nobel prizewinner says he’d love to bring his award to his home county, but he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to manage it. Dr William C Campbell was confirmed yesterday as onme of three who are being honoured in the field of medicine, for work in tackling infections linked to roundworm. Dr

A Donegal farm management software company has been chosen as one of nine being supported by Microsoft under its Accelorator programme. Farmflo will receive one to one mentoring from Microsoft‘s business, tech and marketing experts, as well as being given access to Microsoft services such as Azure Cloud. The package will be worth €675,000 to

Both of the unsuccessful Fianna Fail selection convention candidates have called on the party to add a third candidate to the ticket. At the weekend Pat the Cope Gallagher and Charlie McConologue were selected to run at convention, this week the party’s HQ will decide if a 3rd candidate should be added to the ticket.

Families of some of those those killed in Omagh bombing are meeting with the Taoiseach later today. They’ve been calling for a meeting with Enda Kenny for three years, and are seeking a public inquiry into the real IRA explosion which killed 29 people in 1998. The British government is already facing a legal challenge

A Derry man charged with weapons and explosives training in Syria has had his bail varied to allow him to avail of computers in a course he is doing. 26 year old Eamonn Bradley of Melmore Gardens in Derry is charged with taking part in weapons training and explosives on dates between January 4 and

There’s been a strong increase in house prices in Donegal according to the latest report from daft.ie. Prices were 10% higher than a year previously, compared to a fall of 2% seen a year ago. The average house price is now €127,000, 12% above its lowest point. Nationally, prices rose by 3-point-9 per cent over

A Donegal Councillor says more community hospital beds need to be opened in Donegal, with a need for a new facility in Letterkenny. Cllr Ian Mc Garvey says he raised this during a conversation with Health Minister Leo Varadkar in Donegal last week. He also pressed the minister on the pressures being felt by many

Postal services could be restored as early as tomorrow (Tuesday), after it was announced that industrial action by workers has been suspended. The Communications Workers Union says it’s suspending its strike, with a new round of talks with employer IO Systems to begin tomorrow. The dispute between the two groups has seen the postal service

The sister of Mary Boyle who disappeared in 1977 will meet with a number of Dail Deputies tomorrow to discuss developments in the case in recent weeks and months. Ann Doherty visited Pearse Street Garda Station last week and gave a statement to gardai in which she claimed to know the identity of the alleged

A Donegal born scientist is among those who’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for 2015. Massachusetts based Doctor William C. Campbell, a native of Ramelton, and two colleagues from Japan and China have been honoured for their work helping doctors fighting malaria and illnesses linked to roundworm. It’s the first Nobel prize announced

Failte Ireland says the visit to Donegal of a group of 20 UK travel and holiday specialists over the past two days has the potential to pay dividends in the years to come. The 20 inbound buyers arrived in Donegal yesterday, and walked part of the Wild Atlantic Way around Horn Head, before overnighting in

A former Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI has said today he believes Robert Howard killed Arlene Arkinson in 1994. Howard, who had been serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a girl in South London, died in prison in Durham, England. He was acquitted of the murder of Arlene Arkinson, but

The Community for a Clean Estuary group in Moville is questioning why, six years after flagging its intention to apply for a discharge licence for a waste water treatment plant at Carnagarve, no such application has yet been made. The campaign has also pointed out that the notice appeared in the Donegal News, which is

A group of 20 travel and holiday specialists are in Donegal this morning ahead of the second workshop in a series of six Fáilte Ireland Autumn Sales events. The inbound buyers will be hearing pitches and presentations from a number of local tourism businesses. The group was brought on a guided walk along the Wild