A LETTERKENNY man living in Melbourne has spoken of the moment the city began to shake. South east Australia was rocked by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, damaging buildings and causing mass panic. Unlike neighbouring New Zealand, quakes are uncommon in Australia and yesterday’s was the largest to hit the country in years. Mike […]
Readjusting to a new way of living under Taliban rule
The Donegal-born leader of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan, Mary Ellen McGroarty says that there is an ‘uneasy calm’ in the country at present. While more than 100,000 people managed to escape the country’s uncertain future since the Taliban took the Afghan capital Kabul a month ago, those left behind are grappling with a […]
HSE vaccination clinic at LYIT to close within days
THE Covid vaccination centre at Letterkenny Institute of Technology will close in the coming days but the HSE is preparing to open a new centre in the town. The last appointments at the LYIT vaccination centre will take place in early October, six months after the first vaccinations were administered there in March. Some 93,000 […]
Letterkenny to host Irish language festival
AN IRISH language festival will be held for the first time in Letterkenny next weekend aimed at encouraging as many people as possible to come out and speak the language in a social setting. The Féile an Fhómhair festival will run from October 1 to 3 and will see a marquee set up in the […]
Appeal for scam victims to report the crime to gardai
PEOPLE who have fallen victim of scams are not reporting them to the Gardai because they have been reimbursed by their bank. Superintendent Goretti Sheridan spoke at last week’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC) about how their investigations are being impeded because people are unwilling to make statements. There has been an avalanche of phone scams […]
Mulrines awarded new €9.5m Aldi contract
Aldi has announced a new €9.5 million deal with the Ballybofey-based drinks producer Mulrines. Following a year of strong sales, the new 12-month contract will see Mulrines increase the volume of product it supplies to Aldi by almost 25 per cent. The producer will now supply Aldi with over 11.5m litres of its Irish-produced fruit […]
Donegal had second highest number of Covid-19 cases
THE battle with the coronavirus is not over yet, despite Ireland’s high vaccination roll-out, according to the latest HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) figures. The national incidence rate of the coronavirus stands at 390.4 cases per 100,000 population. There were 1,282 cases of Covid-19 notified in Donegal in the last fourteen days. The county […]
Only fifteen social houses tested for mica
JUST 15 tests been carried out on social houses suspected of having mica in the Letterkenny and Milford District despite a target of 150 to 200 tests a year. Core testing has been carried out on those homes in the past six months however the results are yet to be presented to the residents. A […]
One in four consultant posts vacant in LUH – Saolta
ONE in four whole-time equivalent (WTE) consultant posts are vacant across “a range of medical and surgical specialties” at Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH). There are currently 66 approved Consultant Posts at LUH of which 47 posts are filled on a permanent basis, according to a spokesperson for Saolta University Health Care Group. All other posts […]
Gardai ramp up efforts to tackle cyber crime
THE FIGHT against cyber crime in Donegal is intensifying with 28 gardai in the Division now specially trained to deal with the problem. Chief Superintendent of the Garda National Crime Bureau, Paul Cleary was speaking at the Joint Policing Committee meeting on Friday when he spoke about the worrying rise in cyber crime in the […]