Donegal couple support ‘Happy New Ear’ campaign for daughter Taylor Beth (2)


IF YOU had the ability to treat blindness, would you only cure one eye? This is the comparison campaigners for the State to provide funding for two implants to deaf or partially deaf children and adults in Ireland are making. Alison and John McFadden, Letterkenny, are members of the Happy New Ear campaign which is petitioning for signatures to present to Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly TD, asking him to provide funding for bilateral Cochlear implants for deaf children in Ireland.


Traveller groups speak out on suspected arson attack


THE country’s largest Traveller organisation has called on the gardai in Donegal to provide protection to Traveller families in the county in the wake of a suspected arson attack at a house in Ballyshannon on Monday. Locally, the Donegal Travellers Project have also strongly condemned the attack