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  Detectives at Strand Road are investigating a serious assault that occurred in the Clooney Road area of Derry sometime around 5.30pm on Saturday 8th August. Detective Constable Richard Donnell is keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at that and who may have witnessed the incident during which a male was […]

  Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Education Charlie McConalogue says the Government’s failure to address shortages in student accommodation has led to a major crisis in the sector. 56,000 students will get their Leaving Cert results tomorrow, but thousands of them embarking on a third level course, will face a huge struggle to secure a place

  The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service are treating a fire that destroyed an abandoned car as deliberate. The incident is said to have occurred at around half past three this morning. The NIFRS received a report of a car on fire in the Joseph Place area of the Bogside and the incident was

The Chair of the Stormont Health Committee says there must be a commitment that the current number of respite beds available in the Western Trust area will be maintained. Foyle MLA Maeve Mc Laughlin recently questioned Minister Simon Hamilton on the number of beds in the area, to be told there were 14, at The

Police and the family of a missing 46 year old County Derry man are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare. Declan Mawhinney is from the Bellaghy area and left the family home at approximately 2pm on Saturday 8 August. He was last seen in the Letterkenny area at approximately 11.40pm on Saturday night. Mr Mawhinney is

Irish Water says it is making progress at dealing with at-risk water supplies. It’s reported the EPA is threatening to prosecute the utility when it fails to reach targets to fix supplies. The Daily Mail reports that up to one million people could be exposed to contaminated water supplies, as Irish Water has failed to

Letterkenny General Hospital had the fourth highest number of patients waiting for beds in the country yesterday. Figures released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show there were 28 people waiting, 10 on wards and 18 on trolleys. Patient waiting times has been on the increase for the past number of weeks, but recent days

  SDLP member and local representative Daniel McCrossan has met with senior PSNI officers following searches in the Ballycolman area which left disabled residents shaken. McCrossan initially called on police to review the way in which they carry out search operations and has warned that heavy handed approaches risk losing community confidence. Speaking to Highland

A second man, aged 23, is due before Derry Magistrates Court today over cocaine possession. It comes as another man aged 25 has also been expected to appear at Derry Magistrates’ Court today charged with the same offence. The charges are believed to relate to a detection in the Gobnascale area of Derry on Friday

    The numbers signing on the Live Register in Donegal at the end of July were 9 and a half per cent down on the same period last year. Latest CSO figures show there were 18,197 people on the register at the end of July, with falls in all of the local offices. Percentage

The Simon Community says the government needs to do more to help people stay in the homes they have, as latest figures suggest homelessness rates are growing, particularly outside Dublin. Speaking to Greg Hughes on the Shaun Doherty Show this morning, Simon spokesperson Niamh Randall said the policy needs to focus on helping people stay

The Campaign for a Clean Estuary in Inishowen says indications coming from Europe are that their challenge against a Sewage Treatment Plant at Carnagarve near Moville will be adjudicated on later this year. It follows a Sunday Business Post report that EU officials have expressed concern at elements of the plan, and the way the

The need for the much discussed Bonagee Link in Letterkenny to progress is back on the agenda in Letterkenny, with fears that substantial progress could be years away. The past number of weeks have seen a huge influx of visitors into the town, causing traffic in and around Letterkenny to come to a standstill. Town

Three men and a woman were arrested after trouble following an anti-internment parade in north Belfast on Sunday. Petrol bombs, stones and bottles were thrown at police after they stopped the parade entering Belfast city centre, because the terms of a Parades Commission determination had been breached. A short rally was held at the barricade

  A post mortem examination is being carried out on the body of a man in his 20s found in Letterkenny yesterday afternoon. The body was found in the vicinity of Rogers Burn, close to Willowbrook at around 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon during a search by gardai and local people, backed up by members of

It’s emerged a man arrested in Bundoran on Friday evening is a suspect in the murder in Jennifer Dornan in Belfast last week. The PSNI has revealed it is no longer seeking anyone in Northern Ireland in relation to the murder after the 37 year old man was arrested on Friday evening and brought to

A 25-year-old man is expected to appear at Derry Magistrates’ Court tomorrow charged in relation to the alleged possession of cocaine. He is accused of possessing a Class A drug and aiding and abetting the possession of a Class A drug. The charges are believed to relate to a detection in the Gobnascale area of

Derry Magistrate’s Court has heard how a man told children he was going to throw their mother down the stairs. 39 year old Terence Doherty of 30, Dunluce Court in Derry admitted a series of offences including assaults on police and disorderly behaviour. The court was told that on July 12 this year Doherty’s former

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Central Hotel fire in Bundoran where 10 people had lost their lives. The dead were a family of four from Naas in Kildare, an infant from Belfast, three people from Dublin, two of them children, a woman from Leitrim and a woman from Donegal. The fire broke out

Up to 40,000 people and 140 bands are expected in Derry today for the annual Apprentice Boys parade which gets underway just after 12 noon. A number of smaller parades will take place this morning, before a religious service in St Columb’s Cathedral and a reenactment of the Siege of Derry. It’s the single biggest

Members of the campaign to preserve the overnight NoWDOC service in Derrybeg are seeking a meeting with the HSE, General Practioners and the CareDoc company that coordinates the service. Campaigners from West Donegal and Inisshowen were joined by supporters from elsewhere as up to 500 people marched to the NoWDOC headquarters in Letterkenny yesterday afternoon

Derry and Strabane Cllr Maolíosa Mc Hugh has contacted Transport NI requesting that it acts urgently to replace two road signs that have been up-routed and pulled down in the Urney Road area of StrAbane. A Stop sign and a sign identifying the presence of ramp on the road between Castletown Court and Glenfinn Park have been