BY JEROME HUGHES Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is demanding that the government immediately releases €1m in funding to rebuild Raphoe Community Playgroup’s facility. It has emerged that Raphoe’s pre-school, which currently meets the needs of 46 toddlers, is set to be demolished as it was built using defective concrete blocks. The school is […]
Sinn Féin deputies raise issue of 14-year-old girl being banned from fishing with government
Sinn Féin’s Deputy Pearse Doherty and Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn yesterday raised with government the issue of a 14-year-old girl being banned from fishing pollock. The Donegal Deputies brought 14-year-old Muireann Kavanagh’s hook and line with them to Leinster House to highlight the unfair nature of Ireland’s fishing laws. Speaking to the Tánaiste yesterday, Teachta […]
Slow start for local election campaigns
by Kate Heaney WITH local elections for Donegal County Council expected to take place in May or June of this year, political parties and independent candidates have begun planning as to who might fill the 37 seats on the local authority. Sinn Féin, who currently hold ten seats, are planning to field up to 18 […]
Donegal TDs call for Government to deliver for renters before Dáil breaks for summer
Sinn Féin TDs for Donegal, Pearse Doherty and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, have said the government must put in place a plan to give renters a break before the Dáil breaks for the summer. The Donegal TDs were speaking ahead of the party’s Dáil motion, to be debated today, that calls on government to introduce a […]
Sinn Féin commences petition to ban super trawlers in Irish waters
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Fisheries and the Marine, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD, has commenced a petition to the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, calling for super trawlers to be banned from Irish waters. The petition can be found here: https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/ban-super-trawlers-in-irish-waters Deputy Mac Lochlainn’s action follows the presence of the two largest super trawlers in the world, the […]
Key Donegal Sinn Féin member lashes party strategists
A VETERAN Ballybofey Republican and former Sinn Fein candidate has blamed local party strategists for the loss of Padraig MacLochlainn’s Dáil seat.
Pearse Doherty admits SF may have mismanaged vote
PEARSE Doherty has admitted Sinn Féin may have mismanaged its Donegal vote, resulting in sitting TD Padraig MacLochlainn losing his seat.
Donegal Sinn Féin endorse Doherty and Mac Lochlainn as GE candidates
DONEGAL Sinn Fín party activists have endorsed Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Pearse Doherty to campaign for reelection in the new countywide constituency.
TDs call to Letterkenny Right2Water demonstration
DONEGAL Sinn Féin TDs Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Pearse Doherty have called on those opposed to water charges to mobilise and work together to defeat the charges.
Newly wed TD Padraig Mac Lochlainn gets a very special ‘adviser’
DONEGAL North East TD Padraig MacLochlainn yesterday wed his partner and fellow party member Sinead Ní Bhroin in a civil ceremony in Dublin.