By Harry Walsh THE new €22 million extension to Letterkenny General Hospital is not expected to open until the start of next year, at the earliest, it emerged yesterday. It will be at least a full year behind schedule.Work ceased at the LGH site in November last year when McNamara Construction went into receivership. Up […]
Hanlon out, Kavanagh back
BY CHRIS MCNULTY DONEGAL forward Adrian Hanlon has been released from the Donegal senior football panel this week, but Jim McGuinness hopes to welcome midfielder Rory Kavanagh back to training on Tuesday night as preparations for the June 12th Ulster quarter final gather with Cavan gather momentum. Donegal take on Leitrim in a challenge game […]
New owners for Milford nursing home
THE new owners of the Áras Uí Dhomhnaill Nursing Home in Milford this week urged the Minister for Health to urgently clarify the situation on the Fair Deal for older people. Mr Philip O’Donnell and his wife Anne (nee McGilloway), who manage the Lake House Nursing Home in Portnablagh, have shown their confidence in the […]
Second home tax due again
By Kate Heaney PAYMENT of the Non-Principal Private Residence (NPPR) for second home owners in Donegal is due by the end of June otherwise they will incur a €20 a month interest penalty. When the tax was charged for the first time in September 2009, a total of 14,042 second home owners in Donegal declared […]
Alcohol and death certificates
DEATHS in Donegal where alcohol was mentioned on the death certificate between 2007 and 2009 amounted to 55, according to figures provided by the Central Statistics office this week. A mention of alcohol on a death certificate does not mean that it was a contributing factor to the cause of death in all cases. The […]
A young Letterkenny man has come up with a unique and novel way of learning William Shakespeare’s plays for Junior and Leaving Certificate examinations – condensing the plays into bite-size comic characters with quotes.
A young Letterkenny man has come up with a unique and novel way of learning William Shakespeare’s plays for Junior and Leaving Certificate examinations – condensing the plays into bite-size comic characters with quotes.