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Peter O’Donnell honoured to be Ireland Team Manager at golden Euro’s

  Ireland’s European gold medallists are due back into Dublin airport at around 5pm today. Both Joe Ward and Michael Conlan won gold at the European Elite Championships in Bulgaria yesterday. Conlan also scooped the Best Boxer Award and Ward became the first Irish male boxer to win two European Elite gold medals. Ireland also […]

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Evaluation of NoWDOC call and response data to continue until end of August

A review of out-of-hours GP care in the North West is to be extended to analyse call activity and response time data until the end of August, according to a story published in the Irish Medical Times. The review period incorporates the two-week live test of proposals to end the red eye service from midnight

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Conlon & Ward score Gold for O’Donnell’s Team Ireland

It’s been a golden day for Ireland at the European Elite Boxing Championships. Westmeath’s Joe Ward has beaten Peter Mullenberg of the Netherlands to claim gold in the light-heavyweight decision. Earlier, Michael Conlan won gold in the bantamweight division with a unanimous decision victory over Britain’s Qais Ashfaq. Donegal’s Peter O’Donnell is Ireland Team manager

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Inishowen League Preview

The Inishowen Football League kicks off next weekend, with  two rounds of games taking place on Friday and Sunday. The PRO of the Inishowen Football League, Terrence Hegarty, spoke to Oisin Kelly, where he told of Killea FC no longer being involved with the League, as well as looking forward to the season itself.  

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Triathlon Ireland to hold Woman’s Try-a-Tri Programme

Triathlon Ireland with support from the Letterkenny 24/7 Triathlon will run their Woman’s Try-a-Tri Programme. The programme consists of a 6 week triathlon training programme, commencing on the 13th September. Club & Coach Development Manager, Michael Black, looked ahead to the initiative, as well as the Letterkenny 24/7 Triathlon club and how they have progressed

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Donegal Marathon Preview

The second annual Donegal Marathon takes place next weekend, Sunday 23rd August, and will see route changes from last year. After last year’s event which was the first marathon in the county in over 30 years, runners had said parts of the course were very tough due to the terrain. Chairman of the Donegal Marathon

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Fianna Fail’s Education Spokesperson gives Health Minster an ‘F’ for first year

Fianna Fail’s Education Spokesperson Charlie McConalogue has given Health Minister Leo Varadkar an ‘F’ for his achievements since taking over the portfolio a year ago. Deputy McConalogue says the Health Minister’s failure to bring the health service under control has led to dramatically increased waiting lists at Letterkenny General Hospital. He says that under Leo

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New Donegal ETB chief looks ahead to a challenging but exciting brief

The new Acting Chief Executive of the Donegal Education Training Board says she has taken over the position and a challenging but exciting time in education and training. Anne McHugh takes over from outgoing CEO Shaun Purcell who has returned to Sligo to take over as chief executive there. Ms McHugh says that her main

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Donagh Kelly eyes up championship double as Garry Jennings goes for Ulster hat trick

The Ulster Rally, the latest round of the Irish Tarmac Championship starts on Friday afternoon. Donegal’s Donagh Kelly can seal the 2015 Irish Tarmac title if he can muster a point’s maximum aboard his Ford Focus. Kelly and navigator Kevin Flanagan have already clinched the National Rally Championship with rallies to spare, allowing them to

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Irish fighters look to secure final places at Euro Championships

Three Irish fighters are looking to turn bronze medals into silver today at the European Elite championships in Bulgaria. Michael Conlan is first into the ring at around five to one when he takes-on Italian bantamweight Francesco Maietta . Dean Walsh will go-up against a Russian opponent in the light-welterweights at around twenty five to

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Kerry Katona’s husband arrested in connection with robbery

Kerry Katona’s husband George Kay has been arrested for robbery. The Atomic Kitten singer’s husband George, 35, was reportedly held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery after thousands of pounds worth of jewels were allegedly stolen in a car-jacking. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Kerry doesn’t know that George has been arrested. When

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Donegal TD deeply concerned over Tanaiste protesters prosecution

Opposition TDs say they’re “alarmed” about the DPP’s decision to prosecute anti water charge protesters in connection with a demonstration targetting the Tánaiste last year. It emerged last night that more than 20 protesters are set to be charged in connection with the Jobstown rally last year – which saw Joan Burton trapped in her

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Surgery leaves McMahon in a race for Tyrone’s All Ireland Semi Final

Joe McMahon is to undergo surgery on a hernia problem this weekend and has almost certainly been ruled out of the All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry on Sunday week. He was forced out of the semi-final against Monaghan by the injury after just seven minutes, and was replaced by his brother Justin. Manager Mickey Harte confirmed

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Deputy calls for reinstatement of Bunbeg Coast Guard Cliff Rescue service

An Independent TD says that the lack of a cliff rescue service in part of Donegal could be a danger to tourists. Thomas Pringle says that the lack of a rescue service in Bunbeg could limit the amount of tourists coming to the area, particularly for adventure tourism. The Bunbeg Coast Guard Cliff Rescue service

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SF to meet with Maydown Precision Engineering to discuss jobs fears

A meeting is taking place later today between Sinn Fein a Derry engineering firm over reports that jobs are at risk. Maydown Precion Engineering in Derry employs 133 staff but recently it has been said that 15 jobs were under consideration. Earlier this year, MPE was taken over by the Schivo group. MLA Raymond McCartney

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