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Donegal Deputy Charlie McConalogue says if the government goes ahead with plans to cut the One Parent Family Payment in July, some Donegal families will be forced into poverty. He says families will lose up to €80 a week, as the age threshold for qualification is cut from 16 to 7. Deputy McConalogue says the […]

The new Derry City and Strabane District Council area has the worst unemployment figures in the North. The Labour Market Survey is the first to be issued since the eleven new super councils came into practice last month. The Derry / Strabane Super Council area has an unemployment rate of 7.1%. The figures, revealed that

Ryanair has hosted a celebration at City of Derry Airport to mark its 4 millionth passenger to fly from the airport. The award was made to Kim Newlands today by Derry and Strabane Mayor Elisha Mc Callion and Ryanair’s Sales and marketing Manager for Ireland and the UK Lisa Buckley. Speaking to Highland Radio News,

The Moville Community Against Water Metres Group have said they will not be accepting an apology they have received from Irish Water. The group demanded an apology after they claimed that a number of people in the area have been abused when they’ve asked Irish Water engineers not to install a metre on their properties.

Over 1,000 homes in Letterkenny and the surrounding areas have been without electricity this morning. The outages are understood to be due to an electrical fault. The fault occured at around 8:20am, and 1178 homes are affected in the Cullion area. ESB engineers hope to have the fault repaired at around 9am.

A garda who was assaulted while making an arrest in June 2012 has told Dungloe District Court how he lost his confidence, and his wife now is frightened when he goes to work at night. Garda Aaron Cawley, now based at Manorhamilton in Leitrim after a transfer from Donegal, said he was off work for

An Inishowen Councillor says a major opportunity to provide jobs in Carndonagh is being delayed because a planning application has been held up for six months. The application for a development in the town centre was lodged in December of last year, but still hasn’t been ruled on. Over the weekend it was announced that

The number of crimes reported to police in Derry City over the last year has showed a decrease of 1.5 per cent. According to figures released today, the total number of crimes reported was 7,909, down from 8,028 in the 2013/14 financial year. While there were reductions in some categories, others had shown increases –

Donegal is to receive €654,500 under the 2015 Rural Water Programme. The allocation to the local authority is for group water and group sewerage schemes and are provided by the Department of Environment, Community & Local Government. €250,000 of the funding is for Townawilly in Raphoe, and Tory Island Group Water Schemes which will benefit

At least four people are thought to have been killed in Nepal – after another major earthquake there. It sent people running into the streets in the capital, Kathmandu, just two weeks after a devastating quake which killed more than 8-thousand people. Geologists say it measured 7-point-4 in magnitude, and was centred near the base

19 jobs have been lost in Carndonagh with the closure of two businesses in the town in recent days. JJ Kellys Supermarket and the o2 shop closed over the weekend. JJ Kellys, which had been in business for 51 years in the Inishowen town, and employed 15 people closed on Saturday after the owners retired.

The HSE says the NoWDOC service is operating as normal, and it has not yet been briefed about possible changes to the service. In a statement to Highland Radio News, the HSE says – “The HSE would like to reassure patients and their families that the NoWDOC service is operating as normal. In November 2013

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland is to investigate three additional state-run institutions. There will also be a separate examination of the activities of paedophile priest Brendan Smyth. The inquiry has been investigating 13 institutions to date. However,two former homes in Derry – Fort James and Harberton House – will also be examined

The Letterkenny Municipal District Litter Warden is urging to public to dispose of their waste properly. Martin Roarty has been expressing frustration that most of the waste found at illegal dump sites are items that could be disposed of at bottle banks and recycling centres. Dog fouling in the Letterkenny area is said to continue

The cost of renting in Co Donegal is on the rise – but the rate of increase was only slight in the first three months of this year. According to the latest rental report by Daft.ie, rents were up 3.2% in Co Donegal, with the average cost 509 a month here. Nationally, the cost of

Just 4% of complaints made to the office of the Irish Language Commissioner last year came from Donegal. The details were contained in the Commissioner’s report released today. A total of 115 complaints were made to the Irish Language Commissioner in 2014. The annual report shows that in Donegal an investigation found that the Health

Fears have been raised that the Nowdoc service in Co Donegal is going to be scaled down. Currently there are six doctors covering all of the shifts at the three centres in Letterkenny, Gweedore and Carndonagh. But there are concerns that the six doctors will be cut down to five. There has been uncertainty over

A woman had to be airlifted by the Coastguard helicopter from Tory Island last night. The woman is understood to have hurt her shoulder in a fall. The Rescue 118 was dispatched from Sligo and airlifted the women to Letterkenny General Hospital around 11pm. The woman’s condition is not believed to be serious.

The family of a Strabane teenager, who was killed in the 70s, has issued an appeal for witnesses. 18-year-old Tobias Molloy died after being hit with a plastic bullet in July 1972. He was returning to Strabane from Lifford on July 16th, 1972, when he was struck on the chest by a rubber bullet fired

Concerns have been raised following a spate of robberies in the Sion Mills area. A Chinese takeaway was broken into Thursday last and a laptop was stolen. On the same day, a number of vehicles were broken into and sums of money were taken. Community activist Andy Patton is appealing to residents in the area

Demonstrators from Donegal joined about 100 anti-water charge protestors to snub Taoiseach Enda Kenny on Saturday. They turned their backs on him and shouted slogans as he spoke during an unveiling ceremony in Ballymote, Co. Sligo. Gardai, including a local unit of the public order squad, held off a group of protestors, which included demonstrators