A TOTAL of seven properties in Donegal have been sold at rock-bottom prices at an auction of ‘distressed’ properties in Dublin this week.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated enforcement action against Donegal County Council due to the lack of proper treatment to the source of the Letterkenny drinking water supply

COMMUNITY Hospitals across Donegal are facing savage cutbacks. According to a leaked HSE document yesterday (Thursday), Lifford Community Hospital will be closed and other community hospitals will lose 16 beds.

THE Audit into clerical sex abuse in the Raphoe Diocese will be released after Monday of next week, a spokesperson for Bishop Philip Boyce confirmed to the Donegal News yesterday (Thursday).

THE Donegal News can today reveal the definitive list of up to fourteen garda stations that face the chop across the county as part of swingeing government cutbacks.

SO GRATEFUL is a young Rannafast mother for the life saving skills of the A&E staff at Letterkenny General Hospital, she has organised a fund raiser in Leo’s Tavern in Meenaleck tomorrow (Saturday) night.

AS the future of the NoWDOC service in Donegal comes under threat, local politicians have been asked to attend

LETTERKENNY General hospital was nearly €8 million over budget at the end of September – the equivalent of 10.9 per cent of its annual budgetary

AROUND 100 angry students from Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) travelled to Dublin on Wednesday to voice their disgust at the government’s u-turn on their election promises on education fees.

A LOCAL councillor has expressed his ‘disappointment’ at the decision by An Bord Pleanala (ABP) to again refuse planning permission for a large Tesco store on the outskirts of Ballybofey.