DONEGAL accounted for almost fifteen per cent of the HSE’s spend on Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs in 2010, according to figures released this week.
Plans for new Primary Care Centres in Donegal Town and Dungloe
Fine Gael Minister of State for the Gaeltacht, Dinny McGinley T.D. for Donegal South West, has welcomed plans to develop two new Primary Care Centres in Donegal Town & Dungloe. The announcement was made as part of a multi-billion euro stimulus package unveiled by the Government, which also includes significant investment in roads and schools across the country.
An tÚdaras wants its €360,000 back
A SPOKESPERSON for Údarás na Gaeltachta said they will be ‘taking steps’ to recoup €360,000 in grant aid paid to a company in Gaoth Dobhair which closed this week.
Angry locals near Gaoth Dobhair vow to fight plans to extend quarry
IRATE locals strongly objecting to a major stone quarry extension in Gweedore have warned that they will fight the plans ‘tooth and nail’.
Staff upaid in Gaoth Dobhair call centre
A SPOKESPERSON for Údarás na Gaeltachta confirmed to the Donegal News yesterday that “difficulties” at a call centre in Gaoth Dobhair resulted in staff there not being paid last week.
Garda rejects border 'crime crisis' claims
A SENIOR garda yesterday (Thursday) refuted claims of a policing crisis in parts of East Donegal.
Farmers facing 'major crisis'
FARMERS and contractors in Donegal are facing another “major crisis” with the harvesting of silage as the worst June in decades takes its toll.
Churchill murder enquiry: two arrested
TWO arrests have been made in connection with the murder of a 67-year-old man in the Churchill area on Sunday, gardai confirmed yesterday (Thursday).
'Pringle biggest loser in five-seater'
DONEGAL will become a single, five seat constituency if the recommendations in the report of the Constituency Commission published yesterday (Thursday) are implemented.
SF TDs used expenses in ‘good faith’
DONEGAL Sinn Féin TDs Pearse Doherty and Padraig MacLochlainn have both stressed that their use of travel and accommodation allowances to hire party workers was done in “good faith”.