The Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine has welcomed today’s budget announcement, highlighting the Government’s €8.3 billion package of extra spending and tax cuts aimed at easing the cost of living. Minister Charlie McConalogue emphasised that Budget 2025 is heavily focused on addressing the ongoing financial pressures faced by Irish households. Here are the […]
Startling surge in contact to Foodbank
by Louise Doyle THERE has been a 20 per cent surge in the number of people who have sought help from Letterkenny Foodbank so far this year, with the rising trend expected to continue. The Market Square based community voluntary organisation was set up almost a decade ago in August 2014 to meet the then […]
Cost of living crisis forces a mother to steal groceries three times
A MOTHER of two young children experiencing financial difficulties because of the cost of living crisis was detected stealing groceries three times. The woman, aged in her 40s who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to three separate charges of theft at Letterkenny District Court on Monday. She is charged with stealing groceries from Aldi, Gortlee, on […]