Fermanagh/ South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher
SDLP Health Spokesperson Tommy Gallagher has said that performance of Altnagelvin and the Royal Victoria hospitals in their treatment of patients with hip fractures must be improved.
Tanaiste Mary Coughlan
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD has welcomed news that funding has been made available for upgrading works in schools in Glenties and Burtonport.
John Perry TD from Sligo North Leitrim
Fine Gael Small Business Spokesman John Perry TD has called on Green Minister Eamon Ryan to reverse the decision to recommence the Public Service Order levy on electricity from the first of October this year.
SDLP
SDLP South Belfast Assembly Member Conall McDevitt has uncovered that an administrative error allowed two brothers accused of abusing children to return to their homes in Donagh, Co Fermanagh after they were deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
Senator Pearse Doherty
Speaking at a protest outside Leinster House today, Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty said the Government must instruct the ESB to stop disconnecting customers who are making genuine efforts to pay their bills and end the exploitative disconnection and call out charges.
Cllr Thomas Pringle
Draft Planning Guidelines have the potential to end development in Rural Donegal with the extension of National Roads Authority objections to rural planning to Regional Roads says Independent Cllr Thomas Pringle.
SIMI say that cars sales are very positive
The SIMI released the official registration statistics for August. The figures show that new car sales continue to show improvement but Commercial Vehicle sales are less buoyant.
· 79,145 new cars sold so far this year
· 50% increase on last year
· 11,766 scrappage scheme cars *
· 893 New Light Commercial Vehicle Sales so far this year
· 28% increase on last year
*Most scrappage scheme cars sold in August will not be processed until end of Sept
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Irish do gloomy best in Europe
The Irish are significantly more pessimistic about their national economic situation than other Europeans, a new survey has shown. 95 per cent of Irish people questioned for the Eurobarometer poll said they thought things were “very bad” or “rather bad”, compared to an EU average of 77 per cent.
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The Irish Heart Foundation is appealing for volunteers for the annual Donegal church gate collection on 18th & 19th September. Collections will be taking place in churches all across the county and this year the national charity fighting heart disease and stroke aims to make the Donegal church gate collection bigger and better than ever to raise much-needed funding for its national F.A.S.T. stroke symptom campaign.
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RSA - Road Safety Authority
The RSA has today (1st September 2010) given an update on the measures outlined in the Road Safety Strategy 2007-2012 to enhance the way in which drivers are trained, tested and licensed in Ireland.
The first phase of the modernisation project has been completed and today an additional nine actions have been announced.
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SDLP
SDLP Foyle MLA Pat Ramsey has condemned a gun and petrol bomb attack at Gove Gardens in the Bogside area of Derry.
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IncentiveWorks is an annual event for key decision-makers and professionals from all over Canada who plan, organise or influence meetings and events.
The two-day promotion, which took place in Toronto this week, provided a valuable opportunity for Tourism Ireland to highlight the great facilities and good value rates available for meetings and conferences around the island of Ireland; and offered opportunities for the participating tourism partners from Ireland to meet and network with many of the 3,000+ Canadian influential meeting and event planners in attendance.
Sligo's FAI Cup quarter final opponents will be Monaghan
The 2010 EA SPORTS Cup final will take place in Sligo’s The Showgrounds on Saturday, September 25th, it was confirmed last evening.
Sligo Rovers will host Monaghan United in the final of the 2010 EA SPORTS Cup in a match which will be screened live on Setanta Ireland (kick-off 5.30pm).
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Donegal GAA notes
Donegal GAA notes
Congratulations to the hurlers from Aodh Ruadh in Ballyshannon on winning the Junior Hurling championship last Sunday.
Other congratulations to Naomh Conail on qualifying for the final of the RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta Senior Football Championship in which they will play either Four Masters or Killybegs who will meet again on Sunday evening at 6.15pm in McCumhaill Park, after their semi final match finished all square at the weekend.
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The Roscommon Champion - one of the three papers that are closing
The continuing toll on the regional news sector came into sharp focus again today with the announcement f the closure of three midland papers – the Roscommon Champion, the Longford News and the Athlone Voice.
While the ‘Voice’ is a paper of more recent origin, the Roscommon Champion and the Lonford News are local institutions and when you have long established papers like that going to the wall, you know that the writing is on the wall, for other papers that are currenty tettering on the edge.
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