Two Donegal Beauty Therapy lecturers from North West Regional College (NWRC) have been nominated for a Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) excellence award. Vanessa Canning, from Manorcunningham, and Noelle Boyle from Donegal Town, who both teach Nail Technology at Strand Road campus, are in the ‘Tutor of the Year’ category which recognizes educators who have gone […]
‘Sometimes you just get strength to keep going’
By Diarmaid Doherty IT was shortly after passing the 5k mark during Sunday’s North West 10k road race that Austin Cullen began to think that he might not be able to continue. Advertisement He was feeling pain in his bad leg and when he removed his prosthetic leg, he could see that the bottom of his […]
Revealed: Council purchases second parcel of land in Letterkenny
By Diarmaid Doherty The demand for housing in the Letterkenny area has received another major boost with news that Donegal County Council has purchased a second parcel of land for housing close to the town centre. On Thursday, the Donegal News revealed that the local authority was behind the purchase of the 8.23 acre site […]
Pringle slams Government over wind farm guidelines
Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle, has slammed Government for failing to publish wind energy guidelines, 10 years after the process began. The deputy also raised the investigation, not yet completed, into the 2020 bog slide at Meenbog, which may affect planning applications in the area. Addressing the Tánaiste in the Dáil on Thursday, Deputy […]
Fibre broadband rollout expands across County Donegal
High-speed connectivity on the way as over 1,800 Donegal homes, farms and businesses near the Tamney area see build works commence. National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) today announced that construction has commenced to deliver high-speed broadband to over 1,800 […]
Donegal County Council awarded grant funding of €9,251,000 for Fort Dunree
Donegal County Council (DCC) has been awarded grant funding of €9,251,000 for Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal under Fáilte Irelands, Capital investment scheme Platform for Growth. This will be supported by €3.2 million match funding committed by Donegal County Council providing a total Project value of €12.5 million investment. The transformational tourism project at Fort Dunree is […]
Emergency Department of LUH is extremely busy
Yesterday saw 195 attendances at the Emergency Department.
Public Consultation to inform a Mid-term Review of the Regional Airports Programme
Minister of State, Jack Chambers, has today launched a public consultation to inform a Mid-term Review of the Regional Airports Programme 2021-2025. This Programme supports Ireland’s smallest airports, those that operate scheduled services and handle fewer than 1 million annual passengers (on average over the preceding two years). While the Programme targets funding at safety […]
YOUTHopia Future Fair 2023 – Young People and the Future of Europe
OVER 150 young people from across Donegal and the North West attended the YOUTHopia Future Fair in Oakfield Park in Raphoe on Thursday, April 27. YOUTHopia is an EU funded project led by the Assembly of European Regions in partnership with Donegal County Council. The YOUTHopia project aims to make sure that young people across […]
Zero pesticide exceedances in Donegal public drinking water supplies in 2022
There were no exceedances for pesticides in the public drinking water supplies in Donegal in 2022, Uisce Éireann has confirmed. However, the utility is urging domestic gardeners, farmers, grounds keepers and other users of pesticide products to consider the environment and whether pesticide use is necessary in the first instance. There was a significant reduction […]