http://www.irishdigest.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10461 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10461#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:30:47 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10461 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10461 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10456 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10456#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:09:14 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10456 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. Journalist and historian Brian Maye, author of [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10456 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10453 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10453#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:04:21 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10453 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10453 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10464 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10464#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:01:47 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10464 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. Mr McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister of [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10464 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10451 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10451#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:27:27 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10451 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10451 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10448 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10448#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:19:32 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10448 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.  Ireland ranked just 30th out of 33 countries for the amount of [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10448 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10446 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10446#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:16:40 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10446 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10446 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10444 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10444#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:00:29 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10444 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. 24 prison sentences or partially suspended jail terms were handed out for [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10444 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10442 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10442#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:51:30 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10442 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10442 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10438 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10438#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:47:50 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10438 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10438 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10436 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10436#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:42:45 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10436 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10436 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10432 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10432#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:37:55 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10432 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”.   “This [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10432 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10430 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10430#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:55:32 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10430 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,: “Ulster GAA’s Volunteer Development Calendar is a free wall calendar for Gaels across the nine [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10430 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10425 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10425#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:42:09 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10425 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 [...]]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10425 0 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10420 http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10420#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:07:31 +0000 editor http://www.irishdigest.com/?p=10420 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]]> http://www.irishdigest.com/?feed=rss2&p=10420 0