WORK is to commence on the building of a brand new 24-classroom Educate Together School in Letterkenny, it has been confirmed this week.

A MAN threatened to stab a staff member if she didn’t hand over cash during an armed robbery at an estate agents premises in Letterkenny.

A man in his 50’s from Dunfanaghy has died after an accident on a fishing vessel yesterday afternoon.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after being washed overeboard from a fishing vessel off the Donegal coast.

CLLR Ciaran Brogan is the new Mayor of Donegal.

LOCAL Youth Groups are looking for support from the people of Donegal following their entry into the Irish Cancer Society’s X-HALE Youth Awards.

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help clean up the route of the Glenswilly 5k which takes place next week.

A motion calling for the erection of a monument in Lifford in memory of the participants of the 1916 Easter Rising “and all those who gave their lives for Irish freedom” was defeated at Monday’s reconvened meeting of Donegal Co. Council.

The Donegal Road Safety Working Group is urging motorists to slow down during the Donegal International Rally.

A TINY sick kitten is lucky to be alive after she was heartlessly dumped in a box at a roadside near Donegal Town this week and left to die.