COUNCILLORS are set to start discussing their annual budget estimates for 2015 at 11am.
Assessment will ‘compromise integrity’ of exams – teachers
WITH teachers set to stage a one day strike on December 2 the Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan has said she will not row back on the issue of external assessment.
Business Awards a huge success
THE local trade and industry community gathered en masse last Friday night for this year’s Letterkenny Business Awards.
Brave Karen dies after long battle with illness
A YOUNG Letterkenny woman who battled serious illness for over two decades has died.
Former ‘Derry People’ reporter dies after fall
By C.J.McGinley and John McCukser A FORMER reporter with the Derry People (now the Donegal News) has died after a fall in Wales. Highly respected priest Fr Donal Gillespie (85) passed away at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend last Sunday after the fall outside the Church of St Joseph of Arimathea, Pyle, the previous […]
Alarm as numbers of road deaths exceeds total for last year
ONE more person has died on Donegal roads this year than the total for all of last year.
Out-patient waiting lists soar in Letterkenny Hospital
HOSPITAL waiting lists in Letterkenny General Hospital have soared by a further 1,500 patients over the past six months.
Son (42) charged with parents murder in court again
THE 42-year-old son of the retired Carndonagh couple found murdered at their home is due to due to appear in court in Letterkenny this morning.
Community ‘traumatised’ by double murder – parish priest
THE community in Carndonagh has been ‘traumatised’ by the double murder of a popular husband and wife, the couple’s parish priest has said.
Funerals of murdered Carndonagh couple
CARNDONAGH will come to a standstill this morning (Tuesday) for the funerals of the retired couple found brutally murdered at their home on Thursday.