SINN Féin Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Pearse Doherty have been selected by their party to run in the upcoming General Election. The Sinn Féin convention took place yesterday evening at the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny. It is anticipated the General Election will be called either later this year or early in the New Year.
Mixed reaction to new plan to tackle childcare crisis
A PLAN to help deliver childcare at a cost of €10 a day per child has been described as “hollow” unless full support is given to stem the exodus of childcare providers from the sector. Sinn Féin say 6,500 children in Donegal in childcare and minded by childminders will avail of childcare for €10 a day under […]
Plans for the general election gathers pace across the county
By Kate Heaney AS speculation continues as to when the government will call the next General Election, parties and independent candidates in Donegal are moving forward with candidate selection in anticipation of it happening before the end of this year. Sinn Féin sources say it looks like the party view at present is to run […]
Donegal children waiting over a year to see a councillor
DONEGAL deputy Pearse Doherty (SF) has said it is “unacceptable” that children in Donegal are waiting over a year to see a councillor. The TD has said that Sinn Féin’s Mental Health Action Plan would transform the delivery of mental health services in Donegal. Deputy Doherty was speaking after he launched Sinn Féin’s Mental Health Action plan in […]
Pringle predicts February general election
MOUNTING speculation regarding a pre-Christmas general election has been dismissed by Independent Donegal TD Thomas Pringle who instead believes people will go to the poll in February. Talk of a general election ramped up this week after Eamon Ryan announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down as leader of the Green Party and will […]
Nic Mheanman to give women and youth a voice
The Sinn Féin councillor (25) was elected in Lifford-Stranorlar LE
Minister accused of ‘sitting on his hands’ over Neurology services in Letterkenny
Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty has accused the Health Minister of “sitting on his hands” over the lack of proper Neurology services in Donegal. The Sinn Féin TD raised the lack of neurology services at Letterkenny University Hospital and the North West during a Dáil debate today He was told that a review into Neurology services […]
Redress Party and Independents open talks over forming council pact
By Kate Heaney and Diarmaid Doherty NOW that the electorate have chosen their 37 Donegal County Councillors the negotiations have already started to decide which party members or independents get which roles in advance of next Friday’s first full council meeting. Talks have taken place between some independents and the 100% Redress Party with a […]
ELECTION 2024: Long day in Glenties comes to an end with final seats filled
As the race for the four remaining seats in the Glenties Electoral Area intensified on Sunday evening, a brief power outage left candidates, the media and most importantly, electoral staff counting ballot papers in the Highland’s Hotel, in darkness. But once power was restored, the final seats were eventually filled on the 10th count with […]
ELECTION 2024: McClafferty polls well in Glenties; Carr expected to take a seat
Five years after just missing out on election, Sinn Fein’s Brian Carr looks like taking a seat in the Glenties MD. The tally figures have the Glenties man sitting on 1,003 first preference votes, while his party colleague John Sheamais O Fearraigh is close behind on 968. They could well take two of the six […]