THE waste company that took over the affairs of embattled Letterkenny businessman Jim Ferry has itself been bought out. Ireland’s biggest refuse and recycling firm Beauparc Utility Group confirmed to the Donegal News that it has acquired WERS Waste. The acquisition will bring the Meath firm’s nationwide customer base to over 325,000 homes and businesses. […]

RESIDENTS in Castlefinn say they will blockade a new anaerobic digestion plant if they are subjected to the same problems that gripped Inishowen recently. Over 150 people gathered in Doneyloop on Thursday night to confront Glenmore Estate over its building of a digester in the townland of Cavanaweary. In July residents in the Burt area […]

THE families of two Donegal men have been told they died of exposure to asbestos while working on building sites in England decades ago. Charles Cunnea of Doonalt in Glencolmcille passed away in April this year after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, an extremely rare form of cancer linked directly to asbestos. Charles Quinn of Meencally […]

A Donegal man who had a stroke at the age of 43 is urging people to open up about their health worries. Shaun Wilson is a volunteer with the recently established ‘Different Strokes For Different Folks’, an organisation helping people along the road to recovery. The father-of-two from Fahan suffered a stroke in 2016 following […]

TWELVE Donegal health facilities are to share in a multi-million euro package set to be announced this morning by the HSE. The projects are to be advanced under the HSE’s Capital Plan which will be unveiled later by Health Minister Simon Harris. Among them are the long-awaited redevelopment of two community hospitals – one in […]

A charity that provides food to the poorest parts of the world has been given 1,560 reasons to smile by a kind-hearted Letterkenny schoolboy. James Curran, son of Seamus and Sharon Curran who run the Jaycee’s XL store on the Long Lane, began his fund-raising crusade last year after watching the BBC’s Children in Need. […]

The charity ‘Friends of Letterkenny University Hospital’ is set to benefit from a night of music and dance being held in the Clanree Hotel. On September 20 singer Evelyn Gallagher will team up with long-time music partner Hugh McLean to perform all their best known songs and hits. They will be joined by friends including […]

LETTERKENNY’S Sector 001 Comics will celebrate its first birthday tomorrow (Saturday) from 9am to 6pm. Not satisfied with giving away free treat-bags and balloons for children, free donuts and water and of course some free comics, Sector 001 is having a sale. There will be ten per-cent off the marked price of all comics, action […]

DONEGAL performers will be among the talented line-up at Strabane’s first ever Danceathon which will see 12 hours of non-stop dancing through the decades this weekend. More than 100 participants will showcase their dance skills in St Patrick’s Hall on Saturday, August 31 from noon until midnight, in aid of well known local charities. A […]