Five schools given green light for building work


FIVE schools across the county have received good news to start the new year as the government has given the green light for a host of building projects. Announcing the details today Minister for Education and Skills, Joe McHugh said: “To see several schools getting good news in the first week of January is a […]


McHugh ’empty chaired’ by Lifford campaign group


MINISTER Joe McHugh has been ‘empty chaired’ after failing to turn up at a meeting to discuss the future of Lifford hospital. Representatives from across the political spectrum, including councillors, TDs and senators, attended the meeting in Lifford’s Social Centre. But Mr McHugh was a notable absentee and the Friends of Lifford Hospital campaign group […]


Full wake and funeral details for Mary Ellen Molloy


PEOPLE are being invited to form a vigil as the body of Ardara woman Mary Ellen Molloy is returned to her home in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Mary Ellen died in Australia on December 20 when a tree fell on the taxi she was travelling in with friends. The 26-year-old’s body will […]


Appeal to help find missing teenager


THE FAMILY of a missing Carrigans teenager have appealed for information on his whereabouts. Ryan McGhee left a house at Imlick Villas in Carrigans just after 4.30am this morning. The 19 year old was wearing a read crosshatch hoodie when last seen and is described as medium build, with brown hair and facial hair. His […]


Siobhán gets best wedding proposal Ever(est)


A Killygordon woman is on top of the world following a proposal with a difference from her fiancée. Siobhán Dolan from Crossroads and boyfriend Stephen Coyle from Strabane now live and work in the United States. But they decided to commit to one another at the very roof of the world. Stephen had decided that […]