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There has been a two car collision in Lifford this morning. The accident happened at the turn-off just outside the Rossgier Inn. It’s understood there was no serious injuries.

Gardai have confirmed that a man has been charged with assault and a public order offences following an incident in Convoy last night. Gardai were called after a woman, believed to be the man’s mother, sustained a knife injury to her hand. We understand the injury was slight, and did not require hospitalisation. Gardai later

  The health campaign group “Patients First” will hold a public meeting in Letterkenny’s Mount Errigal Hotel tomorrow evening, calling for health services to be protected and improved. Local councillors, TDs and senators are being invited to the meeting in the Mount Errigal Hotel to hear, first hand, from past patients, relatives and hospital staff

The Public Expenditure Minister will brief his colleagues on plans to reform State board appointments today. Brendan Howlin will bring a memo to Cabinet this morning – in the wake of the nomination of Kilcar man John Mc Nulty  to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art just days before he was nominated to

Representatives of the Parades Commission will be in Castlederg tomorrow for a number of meetings as part of their review into parading in the area. Among the groups meeting the commission will be a deputation from Sinn Fein, led by local Cllr Ruari Mc Hugh. He says they’ll be raising the issue of the frequency

Asking prices for houses across the country are continuing to rise, but are unchanged in Donegal. According to a latest report by MyHome-dot-ie, residential property prices across Ireland increased in the third quarter of this year. The property website’s figures for the third quarter put the average asking price of a three bedroom semi in

A Donegal County Councillor has said the local authority must put pressue on the Minister for Communications to improve broadband and mobile phone coverage in the county. It was claimed at this weeks Council meeting that rural areas are recieving next to no broadband or mobile phone coverage. Despite this Eircom estimates that by 2016, 91%

The Sinn Fein grouping on Donegal County Council has called on Irish Water to meet with elected members immediately. The calls come almost a year after similar calls were made last year. Calls have also been made on the Minister for Environment, Alan Kelly to also meet with Council members. Cllr Albert Doherty said it

Another contender for the Seanad By-election is seeking legal advice this afternoon concerning John McNulty’s bid for election to the upper house. The Kilcar man is mired in controversy after his short lived involvement on the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, which allowed him to seek the nomination. Gerard Craughwell – a former

Calls have been made for Donegal Co Council to hold a public inquiry into a right of way to a beach being obstructed at a beach in Carrigart. Work is ongoing at a 180-acre beach resort and golf course at Aughadahor Beach in Carrigart. T&G Properties Limited has erected two gates at the building site

The Tánaiste says she spoke at length with the Taoiseach this morning over the Seanad by-election and State Board’s appointment controversy. Kilcar man John McNulty’s candidacy to fill a seat in the upper house for Fine Gael has been causing controversy for a week now after his short-lived appointment to the board of the Irish

A Donegal County Cllr has said that people in the county should be given the option whether or not to take out their back boilers or cookers. Currently under the Better Energy Homes Scheme being implemented by Donegal County Council people must take out their back boilers and replace it with oil heating. The key

A Donegal Co Cllr is meeting with Junior Minister for Gaeltacth Affairs today. Cllr Micheál Cholm Mac GiollaEasbuig is meeting with Joe McHugh today, and he says he’ll be raising a number of issues affecting the Gaeltacth area. Cllr Mac GiollaEasbuig says he will also have no problem telling Minister McHugh that he is not

Mountaineering Ireland has called on Donegal County Council to halt remedial work at Slieve League. The all-island representative body for climbers and walkers says it has serious concerns about the quality of the path work put in place there. The council has put in place a remedial works project on the cliff-top path as part

A Donegal councillor says the authority’s policy of advance preparation and planning for road projects is paying dividends. Cllr Barry O’Neill says in recent years, the council has not only spent all its initial roads allocations, it has also been in a position to fund extra projects when money becamwe available at short notice, because

The volunteer crew of Bundoran RNLI Lifeboat were called out twice over the weekend to two different incidents, both of which ended well. On Saturday afternoon just after 1.40pm, the crew received a report that a boat’s propeller had become entangled in the rope of an old lobster pot just off Mountcharles. And just after

It’s been confirmed that Relay for Life Donegal raised just over 150,000 euro this year, bringing total monies raised since the first Relay in 2012 to over 800,000. At a function this weekend to announce the final figure, the organising committee and Irish Cancer Society said that’s a significant achievement, given that the focus of

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is being accused of alienating Fine Gael’s core vote with his handling of the John McNulty debacle. Mr McNulty was nominated as Fine Gael’s candidate for the Seanad by election, having cited his appointment as a board member of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The Kilcar man had been appointed to

Letterkenny Institute of Technology has been ranked 16th out of 21 third level colleges in the annual Sunday Times University Guide. That’s a fall of two places on its position last year. Out of a possible 750 points, the Sunday Time awards Letterkenny IT 440, placing it 16th in the college league table. The college

Police in Derry are investigating the burning of a car on Strabane Old Road in the early hours of yesterday morning. The fire was reported at 4.25am yesterday morning, the the Fire Service confirming  the Ford Focus was deliberately set alight.Officers are working to establish a motive and are keen to hear from witnesses. 

  The Arts Minister has refused to answer any further questions about John McNulty. Heather Humphreys attended an event at The National Gallery in Dublin this morning where she blanked waiting reporters. Yesterday the Taoiseach admitted he was responsible for the controversy surrounding the Donegal man’s candidacy for the Seanad bye-election, and his appointment to

Members of Donegal County Council can reasonably expect the government to increase capital finding to the county in the months ahead. That’s according to County Manager Seamus Neely, who was speaking to Highland Radio News after members voted yesterday to maintain Property Tax in Donegal at its current level. Members voted by 20 votes to

Donegal County Council has agreed to widen the road leading to Glenfinn Bridge, with funding identified for that locally. However, Cllr Patrick Mc Gowan says that would not have been possible had the property tax been cut. At yesterday’s council meeting, Sinn Fein called for as 15% cut, prompting Cllr Mc Gowan to hit out at Sinn Fein,

Gardai investigating the death of a 22 month boy in the Bomany area of Letterkenny say they are treating it as a tragic accident. It’s understood the toddler, named locally as Joshua Coyle was playing in the driveway of his home at Creeve Glebe at 6.45 last night when he was struck by a van.