Bundoran Town Council this week barred the public and the press from a meeting this week because a woman was wearing a T-Shirt with a graphic equaliser, leading members to believe she was recording the proceedings. Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Sinn Fein councillors all agreed that the meeting be held in committee. The woman [...]

Justin Kilcullen, director of Trócaire launched a new book entitled The Search for Justice. Trócaire: A History in the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cathedral Square, Letterkenny this week. The Search for Justice. Trócaire: A History tells the story of the organisation through personal accounts from Trócaire staff and partners.

Ten Airtricity League and FAI Ford Cup fixtures will be broadcast live on RTÉ Two Television as the season enters its final stages, beginning with this Friday’s top of the table clash between St. Patrick’s Athletic and Shamrock Rovers at Richmond Park (kick-off 7.35pm).   RTÉ Sport will broadcast ten Airtricity League FAI Ford Cup [...]

Martin McGuinness has revealed he made a Donegal deathbed visit to the priest suspected of the 1972 Claudy bombing, but that the priest neither indicated that he was responsible for it and that he had no idea if the Catholic priest had been a member of the IRA.

Independent Cllr Thomas Pringle – a candidate at the next Donegal south west bye election has criticised Taoiseach Brian Cowan’s comments on the cost of Irish borrowing.  ”That the Taoiseach flippantly comments that the cost of Irish government borrowing is part of the ‘ebbs and flows’ of the bond markets is another insult to the [...]

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has condemned the Government for its dire lack of investment in education.   The recent OECD’s annual Education at a Glance report has claimed that Ireland spent just 4.7% of its income on education in 2007.

MEPs have voted on a report which calls on the European Commission to put forward proposals for new laws to limit dominant market positions at all stages of the food supply chain – from the producers, through the food processing industry, to retailers.  MEPs are calling for an improvement in price transparency and measures to be [...]

400 drink driving disqualifications were issued in Donegal last year, it has been revealed. The Courts Service statistics show 403 disqualifications were ordered in Donegal’s main court district in 2009 which includes at Letterkenny, Buncrana, Dungloe and Glenties and covers most of the county, except Ballyshannon and Donegal Town.

The news that a Government run, regional workshop for new businesses is to visit Donegal has been welcomed by Donegal Senator Cecilia Keaveney.  The workshop will target small business owners, entrepreneurs and inventors with advice on how to turn ideas into new enterprises. The workshops are entitled ‘Building a Business on Your Ideas’ and will [...]

A large crowd of over 20 young republicans gathered at Altawark monument outside Roslea early on Sunday morning. Their purpose was to retrace the heroic escape across the mountains from Altawark in Fermanagh to Monaghan after the famous 1957 raid on Brookeborough RUC Barracks in which Seán South and Feargal O’Hanlon lost their lives. The [...]

SDLP East Derry representative Cllr Thomas Conway said he strongly backs moves by party colleagues on Limavady Council to add townland names to road signs in the district.   He said: “We did this in the Derry council area a few years back and it has been highly successful, winning the support of ratepayers for [...]

The OECD’s annual educational report underlines once more the “compelling evidence of the economic and social benefits of education”.  It states that investing in education “is an essential investment for developing the long-run growth potential of countries and for responding to the fundamental changes in technology and demographics that  are re-shaping labour markets”.

Ulster GAA will launch its ‘Volunteer Development Calendar – September 2010-2011’ in Pearse Ogs Social Club, Armagh on Wednesday 8th September at 7pm sharp.     Speaking ahead of the event Uachtarán Chomhairle Uladh (Ulster GAA President) Aogán Ó Fearghail stated,:

SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher has said a petrol-bomb attack at a house at Coleshill Crescent in Enniskillen on Saturday was a “cowardly” attack and appealed for anybody with information to pass it to the police.   He said: “Thankfully, nobody in the family at the house was injured but it was [...]

Collectors and Sean O’Hare unit residents at the Robbie Robb and Sammy Cowan Annual Vintage Tractor Run from Stranorlar to Lifford to raise fund for the Sean O’Hare Unit, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Stranorlar.    A great time was had by all participants and vital money raised for a worthy cause.  Photo Clive Wasson