Category: Old Donegal

The LYIT Ladies Gaelic Football team will contest the colleges Moynihan Cup Final following their 2-9 to 2-7 win over UCC of Cork in Tuesday’s semi final.

Nadine Friel and Emma Howe scored the goals for Katie Herron’s side while Aimee McIntyre and Derbhille Connolly stepped up with two points a piece.

Julie Trearty, Lauren McBride, Katie Long and Emer O’Neill also got on the scoresheet against the Cork outfit.

LYIT advance to the Moynihan Cup decider on Friday week 11th March at 4pm in DCU.

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A Donegal town is to receive a share of €1.75m in funding announced today for 13 Historic Towns under Historic Towns Initiative with Heritage Council.

€250,000 has been sanctioned for Ballyshannon to conserve the historic built environment.

The project will work with the owners of seven buildings on the Mall and Main Street and will facilitate sustainable heritage-led regeneration, reinforce civic pride, and promote the tourism potential of Ballyshannon’s historic core.

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A South Donegal Deputy has questioned if Ireland has done all it can amid the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Speaking in the Dail Deputy Marian Harkin said Russia’s invasion was premeditated and well planned.

While Ireland announced sanctions on Russia in previous days, Deputy Harkin is unsure if enough has been done:

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The Health Minister has been told that there is an unprecedented crisis in Letterkenny University Hospital’s Emergency Department.

At one stage yesterday 10 ambulances were backed up at the hospital’s ED.

Speaking in the Dail last night on a Sinn Fein motion on Health Waiting Lists, Donegal Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn once again highlighted the impact of a lack of investment in the hospital:

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The 31 captains of the 31 ladies football squads including Donegal’s Niamh McLaughlin and represented by the Gaelic Players Association met on a video call in advance of Saturday’s LGFA Congress in Belfast to support Galway’s motion of the LGFA intergration with the GAA.

It was agreed unanimously that players across the county are supportive of the sentiment expressed in the Galway motion and therefore the GPA and it’s members are asking delegates to vote in its favour.

All female captains last week also penned a letter to their county boards and the leadership of LGFA and Camogie, seeking confirmation that they would support the GAA in prioritising integration.

Camogie management have subsequently outlined a motion on integration they will bring to their own Congress in April and the vote at LGFA Congress on Saturday will clarify the LGFA’s position.

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There are big plans afoot for Bridgend with a planned project set to significantly improve the road through the village.

It’s estimated that the Donegal – Derry route facilities more than 19,000 vehicles in both directions every day.

The project is geared towards upgrading a 1.2km section through Bridgend and onto the border.

A public consultation is due to take place on March 30th in An Grianan Hotel in Burt.

Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Council Cllr Jack Murray says the area is of huge strategic importance to the wider North West region:

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At least 21 people have reportedly been killed and 112 wounded following Russian shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The regional governor says homes were among the buildings hit.

Moscow’s urging residents in Ukraine’s capital to flee – saying it’ll strike key security and communication services.

Convoys of Russian armoured vehicles are edging closer to key Ukrainian cities – as the conflict enters its seventh day.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been widely praised by world leaders for how he is handling the invasion.

He told reporters it is his life now:

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The Health Minister has been told that failure to invest in beds and staff at Letterkenny University Hospital resulted in 10 ambulances being back up at the hospital’s Emergency Department yesterday.

A statement issued by Saolta yesterday, said that with an average of 120 patients presenting at the hospital daily over the past week, significant delays and pressure on bed availability was being experienced.

As of yesterday evening, all available beds were in use at the hospital including 23 escalation beds.

Speaking in the Dail last night on a Sinn Fein motion on Health Waiting Lists, Donegal Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn said morale among staff was severely impacted:

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Two gardai and three sergeants got over €50,000 each in overtime last year.

According to freedom of information figures, one officer got €61,000.

The total bill for Garda overtime in 2021 was €114 million – nearly 15 million more than the previous year.

Sinn Féin’s justice spokesman, South Donegal Deputy Martin Kenny, is calling for a review into the spending:

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The Minister for the OPW has come under fire for not engaging on the issue of coastal erosion in North Inishowen.

There have been ongoing campaigns calling for action to protect the coastline in the Ballyliffin and Malin areas of the peninsula.

Particular erosion concerns centre on the Ballyliffin links golf course and the area around Lagg Chapel.

Minister Patrick O’Donovan was in Donegal in recent weeks but didn’t visit Inishowen despite numerous attempts from Cllrs to make contact with him.

Cllr Martin McDermott believes if it was Cork or Kerry, things would be different:

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