THE Department of Social Protection has strongly defended its decision to close the local Community Welfare Clinic in St Johnston.
Sinn Féin County Councillor, Cora Harvey, described the closure of the clinic at St Johnston Resource Centre on Wednesday as another “attack on rural Donegal”.
UNION and staff representatives at Letterkenny General Hospital were this week awaiting proposals from management regarding the redeployment of staff to the new €20 million medical unit due to open on September 13.
A MAN and a woman who were found in a car at Loughros Point, Ardara on Sunday afternoon were still being treated at Letterkenny General Hospital yesterday (Thursday).
NEW figures show that Letterkenny is, statistically, among the busiest garda stations in the country – dealing with an average of six criminal offences every day last year.
THE estranged husband and wife from Letterkenny who won €500,000 between them in Saturday’s Lotto Plus 2 travelled on the same bus to Dublin on Tuesday to collect their cheques.
THE fastest man on earth is coming to Donegal. Triple Triple Olympic Gold medalist Usain Bolt, has said he is looking forward to coming to the county.
MYSTERY surrounds the identity of the lucky Donegal winner of over half a million euro in the national lottery on Saturday night.
THE ongoing theft of phone cables containing valuable copper wire from locations across the Fanad Peninsula has been strongly condemned.
GARDAI are hunting a gang behind a robbery at a chinese takeaway in Newtowncunningham.
PLANS for a ‘Welcome to Northern Ireland’ sign along Strabane’s border have been compared to flying the Union Flag from Lifford Bridge.