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A Donegal Senator has described an unfulfilled promise by Government to provide more mental health services to the traveller community as ill treatment.   Traveller campaigners are gather outside the Dail around now to demand a government action plan to tackle high rates of mental health illness and suicide in…

A Donegal-based activist will make history at the National Convention Centre in Dublin today when she becomes the first female traveller to sit in the Seanad.   Eileen Flynn, who currently lives in Ardara, grew up on a Traveller site in Ballyfermot in Dublin.   She is one of the…

The fourth day of counting in the Seanad elections gets under way today with 33 of the 60 seats filled so far.   Nineteen of those are sitting Senators, while seven are former TDs who lost their seats in the General Election.   Three of the vocational panels and both…