Bundoran’s fire station is “vintage” and “not of a standard we would expect”, the town manager told this months’ meeting of Bundoran Town Council.

Mobile phone providers in Donegal and other border counties could be asked to cut signals during the G8 summit amid fears terrorists may use them to detonate bombs. Defence Minister Alan Shatter warned there was a “real danger” lives could be lost in such an event.

Donegal County Council say replacement of a significant part of the water main from Ballybofey to Lifford would address the drinking water problems in the area, but the work is subject to the availability of national funding.

Double killer John Gallagher appeared in court in Strabane yesterday in connection with charges of alleged harassment and making threats to kill.

A murder investigation has been launched in Letterkenny after the “brutal” killing of a Polish national.

Gardaí in Letterkenny are treating the death of a foreign national man as suspicious after his body was found at 11am yesterday at the Westside Apartments on Lower Main Street.

A mother has appealed for information after her son was allegedly raped in Donegal earlier this month.

A member of Donegal’s All-Ireland winning 1992 team has hit out at what he termed the thuggery which he says “is now becoming a dangerous feature of the game”, adding that if serious action is not taken, “someone is going to end up in a coffin.”

The remains of Shaun O’Neill, the young man from Killybegs who died in a car crash in Australia earlier this month, will be brought home this evening and his funeral will take place on Saturday.

As Garda authorities announced the transfers of some of the top Garda officers in the county this week, it has been confirmed that the District Headquarters in Glenties will close down on November 11th, this year.

The reorganisation of the country’s hospitals into six groups will not affect Letterkenny General Hospital’s chances of being upgraded to regional status, a government TD has said.

Five men have pleaded guilty and one has been cleared in a case involving a violent row between Traveller families at a funeral in Mayo, the Mayo News has reported. Castlebar Circuit Court heard that, during the row, Martin ‘Black’ McDonagh of Letterkenny was hit with a slash hook and a sergeant had to use a cloth and nappy to staunch the blood that was “spurting” from the open wound.

Gardai in Letterkenny are awaiting the arrival of the State Pathologist to determine the cause of death of a man who was found at an apartment at Lower Main Street, Letterkenny at 11am this morning.

The efforts of local people to bring out the best of Ballyshannon will be in the national spotlight this evening, when one of RTÉ’s flagship programmes, Local Heroes, devotes and entire episode to the Erne-side town.

Sean O’Donoghue, Chief Executive of the KFO, has welcomed the new fisheries deal agreed last night.

The President of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) visited Donegal today.

At a public meeting in Killybegs last night in relation to the future of the School of Tourism in the town, the President of Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) told the large crowd that “As a proud Donegal man I am not proud to be in a situation like this - closures are just not part of my DNA”.

A meeting is taking place on Thursday in Letterkenny as part of the consultation on establishing a second free preschool year.

A Bundoran Town Councillor and council officials will meet with their counterparts in Northern Ireland to discuss ways of minimising disruption caused by security surrounding the G8 summit in Enniskillen next month.

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