Sinn Féin’s two Donegal TDs have announced that the party’s Commission on the Future of Ireland will be holding a Donegal Peoples’ Assembly in An Grianán Theatre on Monday, January 30. ‘The New Ireland is for Everyone – Have Your Say’ are the main pillars of this Commission. Submissions to the Assembly and for the report that […]
Blow to Dunkineely as GP surgery to close from Monday
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Sinn Féin TD for Donegal, Deputy Pearse Doherty, and the party’s councillor for the Donegal Municipal District, Cllr Noel Jordan, have been informed of the closure of the long-established Dunkineely GP surgery. They have been told that from Monday there is to be no GP service in the area. Instead, people will have to […]
Message of support for Creeslough at SF Ard Fheis
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A message of support for the people of Creeslough was given by Sinn Féin President, Mary Lou McDonald during her key note address at the party’s Ard Fheis this evening. During the televised speech at the RDS she said “the nation wraps its arms around you.” “In hard times, when the odds are stacked against […]
Youth mental health waiting lists ‘extremely worrying’
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WAITING lists for youth mental health in Donegal have been branded ‘extremely worrying’ as waiting times for an appointment with Jigsaw are currently up to eight weeks. Sinn Féin TD for Donegal, Pearse Doherty, has called on the Minister to urgently engage with the service to provide a solution. Demand for the Jigsaw service in Donegal and […]
Threat emerges for Donegal’s crabbing industry
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THE Donegal crabbing fishing industry faces potential destruction due to new regulations from Europe which came into effect following Brexit. The warning was sounded this week after it emerged that 37 crabbing vessels around the Donegal coast can no longer land their catch at their local piers because they have British fishing licences. Some of […]
€15 million investment as part of Bunbeg regeneration
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“We hope it will give the area a renewed lease of life and attract more visitors by showing all of the magic that west Donegal has to offer”
Letterkenny man retires as Fine Gael General Secretary
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THE most senior employee of the Fine Gael party will turn the key in his office door for the last time this evening. Tom Curran is retiring as the party’s General Secretary after twenty-one years in the post. It’s not too often in politics that somebody can exit on their own terms but having reached […]
Former Fianna Fáil stalwart quits ‘with a heavy heart’
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A RETIRED Judge has resigned from Fianna Fáil amid claims that the party has lost its republicanism and forgotten its social democratic working class roots. In a statement issued to local media this week, Sean M MacBride LLM., retired Judge of the District Court, confirmed the news. “On Wednesday 15th July 2020 with a heavy […]
Local bus operators fear for future
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MANY private school transport operators will no longer be in business when schools reopen in September. The warning comes as financial support has been provided to bus operators who are contracted under the School Transport Scheme. Others providing the same service, who were contracted directly by a school or a group of parents, have been […]
Retired Sgt claims Mary Lou ‘apologist for IRA actions’
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RETIRED Garda Sergeant Christy Galligan has asked the leader of Sinn Féin how can she justify the actions of the IRA and commemorate them each and every year. Responding to a lengthy interview conducted with Mary Lou McDonald in the pages of yesterday’s Sunday Independent newspaper, Mr Galligan said that all he saw was an […]