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Slaughtneil and Magherfelt replay scheduled for Thursday before Qualifiers draw

The highlight’s from the weekend’s gaelic games action in the north west was the latest round of fixtures in the Derry Senior Football Championship. Bellagh, Lavey, Kilrea and Ballinascreen have all reached the quarter finals. The draw for the final qualifying round will take place on Thursday evening, with the four winners also going through

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Claudia Kennedy confirms she will contest the Fianna Fail Convention

Claudia Kennedy has announced her decision to put herself forward for the Fianna Fail Selection Convention for the new County Donegal 5 seater constituency. It brings to six the number in contest for the Fianna Fail Election Nominations. The Fianna Fail Convention is due to take place on October 4th in Letterkenny with an estimated

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A&M Belting to move to new premises in Letterkenny

A Letterkenny company has announced it is moving into a new premises as part of a major expansion expansion. Optibelt Eurethene Belting, known locally as A&M Belting makes timing belts for gear boxes, ATM machines and other power transmission operations. A&M Belting is part of the German based Arntz-Optibelt company. It started operations in Letterkenny

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Derry Senior Football Championship

Swatragh  2-06   v   1-08   Newbridge Lavey        4-07   v   2-08    The Loup Banagher 0-11   v   2-04   Glen Kilrea         1-10   v   0-12   Dungiven Magherfelt   0-19    v   1-16  Slaughtneil   AET Ballinderry  3-13  v  1-10  Glenullin Earlier today Caihir O’Kane, Editor Derry Post, reviewed Saturdays action and looked forward to the action

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Ollie Horgan feels Harps should have taken the points against Waterford

Finn Harps remain second in the League of Ireland First Division standings after Saturday’s draw with Waterford Utd in Ballybofey. The only top four side to win were leaders Wexford Youths who beat Athlone Town 4-2 and go four points clear. Harps did have a Damian Mc Nulty goal ruled offside which was a questionable

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Donegal Gaa Results

Division 1 Dungloe             0-08   v   1-09    St Michael’s Gweedore                      v                   Four Masters   (postponed) Kilcar                  1-12   v   1-13       N. Conail Division 2 Cloughaneely  1-06    v   0-08    Killybegs Glenfin               0-08   v   1-10     Bundoran MacCumhaills

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Donegal League Results

Brian McCormick Sports Premier Division Milford United              v             Gweedore Celtic Cappry Rovers       0    v   1    St Catherines Castlefin Celtic       3    v   1    Drumoghill F.C. Glenea United               v          Kilmacrennan Celtic Rathmullan Celtic  3   v    1   Kildrum Tigers Watson Hire Division One Cranford United   5     v   2    Keadue

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PSNI

Update – Man arrested in relation to O’Hara funeral incidents is released unconditonally

Update – A 41 year old man arrested yesterday by Detectives from Serious Crime Branch investigating a series of offences committed at the wake and subsequent funeral of Peggy O’Hara has been released unconditionally. Police investigating the firing of shots during Peggy O’Hara’s wake in Derry on July 15th have again appealed for information, and

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Collins happy with point but critical of Harps off pitch progression

Bottom of the First Division Waterford Utd, headed home from Ballybofey on Saturday night with a hard fought point, holding Finn Harps scoreless. United have been struggling on the personnel front this season and traveled to Donegal with only fourteen players. Waterford Manager Roddy Collins was delighted to pick up a point but was also

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Sinead Jennings is Donegal’s ”Best all round athlete”

Sinead Jennings became the 4th person from Donegal to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on Saturday. Jennings and her partner Claire Lambe finished third in this mornings B final of the lightweight women’s double skulls at the World Rowing Championships in France, which secured her place in the Olympics. Highland’s Athletics correspondent Patsy

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Kieran Murray reflects on his gold medal performances at the World Transplant Games

  Kieran Murray returned home to a hero’s welcome this week in Ramelton. The Donegal runner won two gold’s and a bronze medal at the recent World Transplant Games in Argentina. Having only taken up running at the start of last year, It’s been a remarkable eighteen months for Kieran who has won a total

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Europe wide seat belt crackdown will be observed in Donegal

Donegal Gardai will join Police Officers across Europe in conducting seatbelt checks throughout the week of 7 to 13 September. The action is part of a Europe-wide operation co-ordinated by TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network, which takes place throughout next week. The head of the Garda Traffic Corps in Donegal, Inspector Michael Harrison says

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HSE reports positive response from people using smoking cessation service

The HSE’s Donegal Smoking Cessation Service says that people in Donegal are 10 times more likely to quit smoking with the help of the free HSE face to face service. At present, the service is operating free clinics in Buncrana, Carndonagh, Carrigart, Donegal Town, Dungloe, Falcarragh, Killybegs, Letterkenny, Lifford and Stranorlar. Urging people to consider

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Derry’s Dooley and Timlin to have late fitness tests

Derry City will be without suspended trio Ryan McBride, Philip Lowry and Cillian Morrison for tomorrow night’s Premier Division encounter against Drogheda United (KO 5pm). On the plus side Peter Hutton welcomes back Conor McCormack, but Stephen Dooley and Mark Timlin will have late fitness tests on their hamstring and calf injuries respectively. In their

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Donegal County Council to retain 80% of property tax raised locally

80 percent of money raised by Local Property Tax next year will be retained locally, to fund vital public services. The Government has decided that no local authority will be worse off in 2016 compared to this year. So the remaining 20 percent will be re-distributed to provide top-up funding to certain local authority areas

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Police seek to extradite man arrested in Donegal following Derry wedding shooting

Police have made an extradition request for a man arrested in Donegal in connection with a shooting at a wedding in Derry. A man was wounded in the incident in Derry on Wednesday night. The victim, who was in his 30s, was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital where he was treated for shotgun wounds to his

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U4D says politicians cannot wash their hands following announcement of Magee cuts

The university campaign group U4D says confirmation of significant job losses at Ulster University’s Magee campus is not only terrible news for those affected, it’s also bad for the city and for the North West economy. The group says ultimately, responsibility for the cut-backs at Ulster University must reside with those politicians who decided to

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