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”.
Gardai investigate Churchill murder
GARDAI investigating the death of a man at Churchill near Letterkenny on Sunday have upgraded their investigation to a murder inquiry.
It's getting curiouser and curiouser
FROM earthquakes to northern lights, and even snow in June, Donegal has seen an array of strange phenomena over recent months. This week, however, more strange weather activity took place in the county with funnel clouds or ‘twisters’ spotted in a number of locations.