The Donegal branch of the Right2Water group has said that a day of protest against water charges at locations across Donegal will still go ahead on November 29th. Thousands of people took to the streets of Letterkenny, Lifford and Ballyshannon last month to voice their disapproval at water charges. Now further protests have been arranged […]
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The Chief Executive of Donegal County Council says the challenge of implementing the authority’s budget for 2015 is one he relishes. The 2014 budget, past last year, was characterised by a lengthy stalemate which almost collapsed the council in January, while the 2015 budget has already been passed at the first time of asking. Seamus
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Management at Sioen Ireland in Gweedore is seeking voluntary redundancy from its workforce. The news from the Protective Clothing company is said to have come as a huge shock to staff. It is understood the redundancies are being sort in the production arm of the company which employs around 30 people at its base on
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Craig Charles has become the second star to walk out of the jungle on this year’s I’m A Celebrity after his brother died suddenly. The Coronation Street star cut short his stay in the jungle after he was informed of the death of his older brother Dean. The Corrie actor was missing from the live
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The penthouse used by John Boy Power in the crime drama Love/Hate is up for sale. However, anyone looking to get their hands on the piece of television history will have to buy the entire Granary building block of 14 apartments in Dublin 9 for €3.5m. The 3,423 sq ft apartment – used by the
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Road users are being asked to take care on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning with Met Eireann warning of mist thickening to fog in many areas. The forecaster says his will lead to greatly reduced visibilities and poor driving conditions. The fog is likely to clear only slowly during Thursday. The Road Safety Authority
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Management at Sioen Ireland in Gweedore has told its work force that it plans to offer some employees voluntary redundancy as and from next week. The news from the Protective Clothing company is said to have come as a huge shock to staff. It is understood the redundancies are being sort in the production arm
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Letterkenny’s Philip Deignan is targeting a place on Team Sky’s line up for next years Tour De France. Having completed his first year with the team, the Letterkenny rider has been on a break home for the past week and will return to training over the next few days. This year he competed in the
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Derry City midfielder Danny Ventre has left the Brandywell club after just one season. In December of last year the former Sligo Rovers player became one of Roddy Collins’ first signings. His last game for Derry was the cup final defeat to St Pats at the end of October.
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Environment Minister Alan Kelly has announced the new water charges regime. New capped annual charges: Cost to single adult households will be €60 and for other households it will be no more than €160. There will be specific legislative provision to allow for capped charges to continue to be set from 2019 onwards. €100 grant:
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Shay Given returned to the International fold last night playing 85 minutes at the Aviva Stadium in the 4-1 win over the USA. The Lifford stopper pulled off some good saves in the second half while earning his 127 cap for his country. Shay is now hoping to get a bit more game time at
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Michael Mc Geady’s hopes of getting a European Tour card for next year have gone. The Derry man missed the cut at 4 over par at the PGA Catalunya Resort in Spain and will play no further part in the final two days. McGeady’s best score was on Monday when he hit a 2 under
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After the Republic of Ireland’s 4-1 win over the USA last night, manager Martin O’Neill denied he has a problem with Everton after leaving full-back Seamus Coleman out of the side. Everton chairman Bill Kenwright had criticised comments by Roy Keane about their attitude towards letting players go on international duty. O’Neill says he simply
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A Castlefin woman has said there is no way she is prepared to pay water charges because the quality of her water is so bad. Michelle Carlin, who resides in Castlefin, has posted a video on social media just showing how bad her water is. You can see in the video link below as she
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Three men aged 18, 22 and 23 have been arrested following reports of a number of attempted hijackings, burglaries and other related offences in the Rossnagaliagh area of Derry yesterday. One male was described as having a firearm whilst attempting to hijack vehicles. Two vehicles were stolen, one of which collided with a police vehicle
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The Republic of Ireland signed off on 2014 with a 4-1 win over the USA at the Aviva. Two goals from Robbie Brady and one each for Derry’s James Mc Clean and Anthony Pilkington secured an encouraging win for Martin O’Neill’s side that helped to ease some of the disappointment from last week’s defeat to
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Kerry’s Declan O’Sullivan has announced his retirement from inter-county football. The forward has put his decision down to niggling injuries, particularly to his knees. During an 11-year career with the Kingdom, O’Sullivan won five All Ireland medals and lifted Sam Maguire twice as captain in 2006 and 2007.
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The Environment Minister says there’s “nothing harsh” at all about the Government’s new water charges packages – including the penalties. Alan Kelly was speaking on his way into this morning’s special Cabinet meeting on the measures he’s due to announce to the Dáil later. The package – which is likely to cap charges at 160
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A subsidy to grant cover for a free bus pass scheme for the elderly and disabled on the Buncrana to Derry route has been reinstated. The service was taken over by McGonagle Coach & Bus Hire following the closure of the Lough Swilly Bus Company but the Department of Social Protection had, until now withheld
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A Raphoe family claim they cannot live in half of their house because it is unsafe. A crowd of up to 350 people attended a public meeting in An Grianan Hotel Burt this week and were told that up to 2,000 properties in north Donegal may have been affected by crumbling breeze blocks. Among them
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Donegal County Council has passed its budget for 2015 after a 10 hour meeting characterised by a series of adjournments to allow for meetings between members and senior management. In the end, the budget passed by 31 votes to one, with only Independent Cllr Dessie Shiels voting against. Proposing the budget, Fianna Fail whip Cllr
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St. Eunan’s College won their first game in the MacRory Cup on Tuesday beating St. Mary’s, Magherafelt 15 pts. to 1 – 4 . Played in Steelstown, Co. Derry in glorious conditions St. Eunan’s dominated from the start and led at half time by 7 pts. to 2. They continued to dominate with
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Gardai had to be deployed in Co Donegal this afternoon after Irish Water engineers were involved in a stand-off. Residents in Drumkeen were woken this morning to the noise of workmen drilling and digging holes. Angry residents in one estate insisted that the holes be re-filled. Cllr Liam Doherty was contacted by residents this morning:
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Rory McIlroy has confirmed that Ricky Fowler will play in next year’s Irish Open at Royal County Down… The 4 time major winner was speaking this morning ahead of the season ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, having already been crowned Race to Dubai winner for 2015… The presence of the current world number
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Eoin Bradley has returned to the Derry Senior Football panel. The Glenullen man opted to play soccer in the Irish League for 2014 and scored for Glenavon last Saturday. It’s understood that arrangements have been made so he can accommodate both sports. Bradley has returned to full training with the Oak Leaf county and is
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A crowd of up to 350 people attended a public meeting in An Grianan Hotel Burt last night and were told that up to 2,000 properties in north Donegal may have been affected by a crumbling breeze blocks. Defective breeze blocks, which contain Mica can cause web-like cracking on the plaster of the house and
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Cliff Byrne has joined English Conference side Alfreton Town. The former Derry City Captain has been without a club since he was released from the Brandywell in September following a long term injury. 32 year old Byrne was signed by Roddy Collins and made 21 appearances for Derry scoring one goal.
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After a convincing performance on his first full season in the World Rally Championship, Kris Meeke will be driving a DS3 WRC again in 2015. The County Tyrone driver will continue to compete alongside co-driver Paul Nagle. This season the crew secured podium finishes at Monte-Carlo, Argentina, Finland and France, and also led rounds in
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Police investigating the attempted murder of police in Strabane last month have arrested two men. The suspects, aged 29 and 43, were arrested this morning as part of an ongoing investigation into the bomb attack in the Ballycolman area on October 23. Barry Whyte reports: Last month, police were called to a hoax bomb alert
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Donegal County Council is expected to pass its revenue budget for 2015 today, with a projected expenditure of just over 131 million euro. Commercial rates will again remain unchanged, with just under 30 million being raised through rates locally according to the council’s projections. Payroll costs for 2015 will be almost 62 million euro. The
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The sister of Mary Boyle has reiterated her call for an independent inquiry into her disappearance almost 40 years ago. Mary was six when she went missing while visiting her grandparents’ home in Cashelard, Ballyshannon on March 18 in 1977. Her sister Anne claims that Mary may have been about to reveal a secret which
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The Environment Minister says the Government’s new water charge regime will end public anger against the levy. Alan Kelly was speaking ahead of this morning’s Cabinet meeting – where Ministers will sign off on plans to delay all charges until January. The new regime is understood to be capped for at least four years –
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Ollie Horgan has made a major step in the preparations for the 2015 campaign as six playershave put pen to paper at Finn Park. Ciaran Gallagher, Kevin McHugh, Keith Cowan, Thomas McMonagle, Michael Funston and Tony McNamee are the first to commit themselves to Harps for the coming season. Gallagher returns to Finn Park after
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Donegal County Cllrs are discussing their annual budget in Lifford today. The estimated spend for the year ahead will be discussed, and voted on in the County House in Lifford by the 37 elected members. This is the first budget of the “new council” elected in May; where Fianna Fail are the largest party, followed
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A decision by the Department of Transport to refuse funding for a footpath in Dungloe has been condemned. The people who reside at Caravan Road in Dungloe have been fighting to have the footpath repaired for decades. Now Cllr Marie Terese Gallagher is asking why a civil servant in Dublin singled out this road to
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Three Donegal-based gardai and a 21-year-old hospital equipment-maker will receive recognition awards for their heroism in Dublin today. They are among 35 rescuers to be awarded for saving 22 people from drowning in Ireland this year. They will be presented with their Seiko Just In Time Rescue Awards by Environment Minister Alan Kelly in Dublin
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Following the weekend win over a VFL selection in their only warm up match the Irish squad are on a rest day in Melbourne as they build up continues to Saturdays test in Perth. Speaking over the weekend Neil Mc Gee is hoping the majority of the older Donegal players will stay for another year
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Ireland Manager Martin O’Neill has re-iterated that Roy Keane is not a distraction to the Irish squad and insists that he is pleased with the contribution of his assistant manager. Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has today expressed disappointment with yesterday’s comments by Keane about the availability of Seamus Coleman and James McCarthy for Ireland. Kenwright
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The LYIT have secured their place in the Division Two semi final’s of the Higher Education Colleges competition. The Letterkenny side beat Cavan Further Education College in Cavan 2-13 to 3-4 this afternoon. Among the scorers were Donegal’s Dara Mc Daid with 2-2 and William Gillespie with 0-3. Sligo’s Brendan Howley was man of the
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Seven men – four from the Republic – have appeared in court in the North charged with a series of dissident terrorism offences. The men – aged between 30 and 75 – appeared before Newry Magistrates Court in Co Down after being arrested last week by police investigating the Continuity IRA. There was a significant
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A man’s body has been found in the grounds of St Conal’s Hospital in Letterkenny this morning. The discovery was made by staff at around 9:10am this morning. The identity or age of the man has not yet been released. Gardai are not treating the man’s death as suspicious.
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A 24 hour protest is to be held outside Junior Minister Joe Mc Hugh’s office in Letterkenny later this week calling on him to join his Fine Gael council colleagues in Donegal in publically calling for an end to water charges and a referendum to ensure Irish Water remains in public ownership. It follows
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Death threats made against a number of Community Safety Partnership workers in Derry have been lifted. A group calling itself the IRA made the threats against Community Safety Wardens. The workers had been transferred to other duties, and over the past number of days, council staff, unions, churches and other groups called for the
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The house fire which killed a man in his forties in Derry is being treated as an accident. Anthony Mc Feely died in the fire at his home in Upper Bennett Street which was reported shortly after 8 o’clock yesterday morning. Foyle MLA Pat Ramsey says the neighbours tried to get him out of the
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In the North, seven men have been charged with terrorism offences, by police investigating violent dissident republican activity. They were among 12 men held in Newry last Monday during a probe into the Continuity IRA. It’s believed some of those are from the Republic. The 7 accused – aged between 30 and 75 – are
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Termon Ladies are through to the All-Ireland Senior Club Final. The Donegal and Ulster champions went to Galway today and beat Kilkerrin-Clonberne 3-11 to 2-12. Star forward Geraldine McLaughlin hit 2-04 for Termon. They will now play Mourneabbey from Cork on Sunday 30th November in the All Ireland Final. Termon manager Francis Friel gave his
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Urris have reached the Ulster Junior Football Championship Final after beating Keady of Armagh in today’s semi final in Clones. The Inishowen side won 1-7 to 0-7 , Peter Devlin’s goal in first half and two quickfire Jason Doherty points proved crucial. Urris will play Tyrone side Rock in the final. Rock beat Drumaness 0-16
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St Enda’s Omagh will play Slaughtneil in the Ulster Senior Club Football Final at the end of November. The Tyrone Champions beat St Eunan’s 1-8 to 0-8 in today’s semi final at Celtic Park. Barry Tierney’s goal in the first half was the score that sent Omagh through to a first ever provincial final. Slaughtneill
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St Eunan’s journey in the Ulster Club Championship came to an end at Celtic Park in Derry today as the Donegal champions lost 1-8 to 0-8 against St Enda’s Omagh. Barry Tierney’s goal in the first half proved to be the semi final match winning score as Eunan’s couldn’t overhaul the Tyrone Champions who have
St Eunans Ulster journey comes to an end in Derry. Read More »
Today marks World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims. Almost 24 thousand people have died on Irish roads since records began in 1959 and over 160 people have lost their lives on Irish roads so far this year. Special memorial masses and ceremonies have been taking place today to remember those who have lost their
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