Driving test waiting times in Donegal “need to be addressed”
A Donegal Councillor is calling for driving test waiting times to be addressed. The current waiting time stands at four months with many being left frustrated at the length. With driving tests centres currently operating five days a week, Independent Councillor Michael McClafferty says an increase of the service to…
Donegal Festival returns this weekend
The Glenties Harvest Fair Festival returns to Donegal this weekend and tomorrow. The festival will include street trades, traditional crafts and exhibitions. Gardaí are advising motorists in the area that there will be traffic diversions and some road closures today to tomorrow. Glenties Main Street will be…
Report into the murder of Denis Donaldson expected to be published this week
The results of the investigation into the murder of a former Sinn Fein official that worked as a British agent for 20 years and was murdered in Glenties Is expected to be published this week. Denis Donaldson and was shot and killed in Glenties, Co. Donegal on the…
170 premises without power today
170 premises are without power across the region today. 26 are impacted in Gurteen, Co. Sligo a further 37 in the Drumnacrosh area of Glenties in Co. Donegal and 107 homes and businesses are without electricity around Drumshanbo in Co. Leitrim. The estimated time of power being restored in all…
Four arrested in Donegal following car chase
Four people have been arrested following a Garda chase today. Searches were carried out in the Frosses and Glenties areas of Co. Donegal this morning due to reports of an attempted burglary at the Spar filling station, Tullygay just after 3.20am. The four were arrested in Donegal Town at around…
Donegal students take part in All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad today
3 students from Donegal are to take part in in the National Final of the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad today. The competition run by the ADAPT Centre challenges secondary school students to apply their logic and reasoning skills to solve complex puzzles in unfamiliar languages. The contest is said to…
A man to appear in court after shots were fired at Donegal Gardaí
A man in his early 20’s arrested after shots were fired at Gardaí in Donegal over the weekend is due in court later this morning. Two other men arrested in connection with the attack in the early hours of Saturday morning have been released without charge. Officers…