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Local Councillor commends Strabane police searches

Police investigating dissident republican activity have been carrying out searches in Strabane. The searches, conducted by the PSNI were carried out in Townsend Street area last night and this morning. It’s believed the searches continued into last night as the police helicopter was sighted hovering low over the town. The PSNI said the policing operations

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Over one and a half thousand Donegal people have their details hacked on adultery website

  Over one and half thousand people in Donegal have had their profile on an adultery website hacked with their details published online. The Irish Sun is reporting that 767 people in Letterkenny and 942 in Donegal have had their personal details hacked from Ashley Madison.com, totalling 1,709. The Sun is also reporting that emails

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Foundations for Donegal Ladies championship run laid last year – McLaughlin

The countdown is on for the Donegal ladies’ TG4 All-Ireland quarter-final clash against Armagh which takes place in Clones tomorrow. It’s three weeks since Donegal won the provincial title in what has been a great year so far. Manager Davy McLaughlin believes that they in the last eight on merit and points out that the

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Mc Conalogue concerned at increase in Donegal repossession applications

A Donegal TD says he’s concerned by a wave of new family home repossession cases lodged in the courts in Letterkenny in the first half of the year. Deputy Charlie Mc Conalogue says figures released to Fianna Fáil show there were 35 repossession orders granted in Donegal in the first months of the year, with

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Donegal woman just misses out on finals at World Handball Championships

Donegal’s Avril McNamee has just missed out on a place in the finals at the World Handball Championships in Canada. Competing in the Women’s Singles Small Ball A category she lost out 21-12, 21-5 against Clodagh McManamon of Mayo at the semi-final stage. Then in the Women’s Singles Small Ball B category she went even

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Sinn Fein’s Assembly future uncertain after PSNI claim IRA involvement in Mc Guigan murder

Democratic Unionist Party MP Jeffery Donaldson says he believes there are people in Sinn Féin who know who committed a murder in Belfast last week. The PSNI believes Provisional IRA members were involved in the murder of Kevin McGuigan, who was questioned by police over the murder of another prominent Republican, Gerrard “Jock” Davison. DUP

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Cancer campaign groups issue joint statement following Dublin meeting

A joint statement has been issued by Donegal’s two biggest cancer campaign groups following yesterday’s meeting in Dubin. Meanwhile, Health Minister Leo Varadkar and Junior Minister Joe Mc Hugh have also issued a joint statement pledging their support to the process. Cooperating for Cancer Care North West and Donegal Action for Cancer Care acknoweledge that

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30 Donegal properties included in largest Allsops auction to date

The largest Allsop auction to date will take place over two days next month, with over 375 properties to go under the hammer at the RDS in Dublin. Thirty properties in Donegal are on offer – twenty-eight residential properties and two commercial properties. The lots on offer include twelve semi-detached houses in Chestnnut Grove Letterkenny

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Cancer Care campaign groups welcome commitment to improve cancer services at Letterkenny General

The Health Minister and the Soalta Hospital Group have today given a commitment to strengthen symptomatic breast cancer services at Letterkenny General Hospital. The news was delivered at a meeting today attended by Donegal Action for Cancer Care and Co-operating for Cancer Care Northwest. The groups were told that Letterkenny General’s breast cancer services will

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New sailing route should see more yachts visiting Donegal

  It’s hoped that Donegal will see an increase in sail based tourism following the launch of a website to promote the “Cool Route” sailing project. The project involves the establishment and promotion of a sailing route for yachts, stretching from Cork to Donegal and Northern Ireland, and then on Western Scotland, the Faroe Islands

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Tiernan Mc Cann cleared to play in semi final after red card is overturned

Tiernan McCann’s 8 week ban has been lifted meaning the Tyrone man is free to face Kerry this Sunday in the All Ireland semi final. The Central hearing committee sitting went into the early hours of this morning before eventually clearing him. McCann had been charged with bringing the association into disrepute after taking a

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ICBAN seeks windfarm discussions with Alan Kelly after meeting Durkan in Stormont

Members of the Irish Central Border Area Network met with the Stormont Environment Minister Mark H Durkan last evening to discuss windfarms and windfarm development in the border region. These include the proposed controversial Carrickaduff windfarm in the Finn Valley. The meeting was requested by Donegal County Councillor Gary Doherty who now hopes that the

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Update – Lughnasa festival to honour Brian Friel

The inaugural Lughnasa International Friel Festival gets underway today and will celebrate the works of playwright Brian Friel. The festival will feature an extensive multi-arts and multi-disciplinary programme of talks, music and dance in both Donegal and Belfast over the next 10 days. A brand new production of Dancing at Lughnasa which is the centrepiece

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