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    A man has died and another man has been injured in a farm in Burt. Gardai are currently at the scene of a farming accident in Burt. The incident is said to have happened at approximately half past two this afternoon. A man in his mid 60s was fatally injured and another man […]

  Detectives from Serious Crime Branch investigating offences committed at the wake and funeral of Peggy O’Hara in Derry in July have arrested a 53 year old man and a 44 year old woman in the city. Both suspects have been taken to the Serious Crime Suite at Antrim Police Station for questioning. Detectives also

Irish Water has said it will meet with residents in the Churchill area about the ongoing water situation there. The meeting is to take place on Friday morning and will be the fourth meeting to take place in relation to it. Severe discoloration caused by vegetation seeping into the supply has become an annual occurrence,

A group of disability campaigners have spent the first of three nights camped outside government buildings, with a group from the the Donegal Centre for Independent Living joining them in Dublin today. They’re calling for a 300 million euro investment in disability services in the budget – to redress the cuts suffered during the recession.

The trade unions affiliated to the Right2Water campaign have announced plans for a series of ‘town hall’ meetings to discuss the policy principles which should underpin a future progressive government. The Donegal meeting will take place in the Radisson Hotel, Letterkenny on this night week, Wednesday September 23rd. Right2Change has emerged from the Right2Water Campaign

A former senior member of the North’s Policing Board is calling for the power sharing institutions to be suspended for a time. It comes amid ongoing efforts to resolve a row that saw the First Minister Peter Robinson stand aside, and all DUP ministers but one resign last week. Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers

The state of the water supply in the Churchill area is once again under scrutiny. Severe discoloration caused by vegetation seeping into the supply has become an annual occurrence, and it is at its peak at this time of year. Residents claim the water is undrinkable and unusable for washing clothes. Local Councillor James Pat McDaid tabled

It has been claimed the state of the roads in the Stranorlar Municipal District poses a threat to motorists, and not enough funding has been set aside to repair them. The Finn and Lagan Valleys are deemed the most intensively farmed in the County, resulting in industrial scale agriculture. The large volume of agricultural traffic has

  One thousand jobs are to be created in the North West as work on two films at a former British army barracks in Derry is beginning in the coming months. According to Shackelton Studios in Ballykelly, the budget for the first film is 65 million pounds and will create 1,000 jobs in the North

  Tributes are being paid to Fine Gael Deputy Dinny McGinley, who has confirmed he will not be standing in the next General Election. Both The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and Gaeltacht Minister Joe McHugh have expressed their high regard for the TD. In a statement, Taoiseach and leader of the Fine Gael Party, Enda Kenny

  Police at Strand Road in Derry are appealing for information about a theft from a shop. The incident took place on Sunday last. Three youths went into an electronic cigarettes shop at Spencer Road and stole four iPhones that were on display in a glass cabinet in the front window. This was the result

The search for a man who’d been missing in the Carrigans area since yesterday has ended, after he was found safe and well. Local Sergeant Jim Collins says just before the search was to resume this morning, news came through that the man was safe. Sergeant Collins says the man is now receiving medical attention,

  Donegal County Council has made its public services centres available for the collection of clothing, tents and toiletries to be sent to refugees currently awaiting processing at Calais. A truck from Donegal will join an aid convoy on Friday, and between now and then, items are being accepted at public services centres and the

Gardai and Donegal County Council are investigating illegal dumping at Ballyharry close to Culdaff in Inishowen, with concern growing at the extent of the dumping and the potential hazards being presented by the materials being left there. Its believed that at regular intervals, lorries arrive, usually in the dead of night, and dump the materials.

Calls for the removal of the PSNI station in Castlederg have intensified following the announcement of new PSNI Local Policing Teams. Local Councilor Ruairi McHugh has said the building currently serves no practical purpose, and it costs the community to keep it there. He says police officers assigned to Castlederg currently operate out of Strabane,

Following confirmation that Rory Mulcahy SC has been appointed to review allegations of planning irregularities in Donegal, Independent Councillor Dessie Shiels has written to the Environment Minister asking that the scope of the review be widened to allow the public make submissions. Cllr Shiels says anything less will be a token gesture which will not

40 full time permanent jobs are available in Strabane. I.T. company Allstate NI is holding a recruitment open day at their Strabane office on Thursday week from 4pm-7pm. The jobs available are all Technical Support Analyst positions. The Strabane office currently employs 450 people and is the town’s largest employer. Andrena Bradley is Senior Division

A senior counsel is to investigate allegations of planning irregularities in Co Donegal. The Irish Times reports this morning that the Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has appointed Rory Mulcahy SC to prepare a review into certain planning decisions by Donegal County Council. The investigation will include an examination of claims that a council

  Deputy Dinny McGinley has confirmed he will not be standing in the next General Election. The Donegal South West TD announced he wouldn’t run about a year ago, but he says he’d come under pressure in recent weeks to go back on that decision.  

A man who died in a crash in County Wicklow over the weekend was originally from Donegal. He has been named locally as Simon McGeoghegan from Moville. The 31 year old was killed as he walked along the M11 motorway on Saturday night. Mr. McGeoghegan who had been working in the fishing industry in recent

  It’s emerged that a man who died in Co. Wicklow over the weekend was originally from Co. Donegal. Simon McGeoghegan (31), was killed when he was walking home, along the M11 motorway on Saturday night. Mr. McGeoghegan who had been working in the fishing industry in recent months was originally from Moville but had

Garda morale in Donegal is at an all time low, according to the Garda Representative Association, with a number of reasons being cited, including a recent incident in which a garda confronted two burglars single handedly, knowing that the only available back up was a 20 minute car journey away. The GRA’s representative for the

Details have been unveiled this afternoon of a three day mental health awareness event that will take place in South Donegal from from the eighth to the tenth of October. Connect Mental Health is intended to conincide with World Mental Health Day, October 10th. The initiative is the brainchild of Ciaran Mc Loone, who says

A search in the Malin Head area for a 58 year old Belfast man has been suspended after he turned up safe and well at Malin Head just before 11 o’clock this morning. The man’s Volkswagon camper van has been parked close to Bamba’s Crown since yesterday morning. Gardai were alerted when it was noticed

A review into the provision of an antenatal clinic in Dungloe is to take place, with a question mark over whether the service will reopen. In January, the clinic closed because of staffing issues, with some local politicians sayng they had received reassurances that the service would recommence once a key staff member had returned

Concerns have been raised about a well known ship wreck on a beach in the Bunbeg area. ‘Bad Eddie’ washed up at Magheraclogher in the 1970s. The wreck featured in Clannad’s ‘In a lifetime’ video in the 1980s. Now residents in the area are concerned that the wreck is rotting away, posing a threat for

Donegal Co Council has agreed to review the matching Amount payable by Disabled and Older people as a percentage of the overall costs to improve their houses . However the Council has to match fund the Government grants as well by 20% . Cllr Patrick Mc Gowan has welcomed the review but says the Council

  There have been traffic delays  in the vicinity of Carrigans this morning as a result of a fire. An operation to tackle the blaze is ongoing, and motorists had been diverted away from the Main Street for a time. Traffic is now moving through Carrigans again, but gardai are urging caution. There are no details of