Police are investigating a suspected pipe bomb attack in Strabane.
The device was thrown into a car at O’Nolan Park at around 1 o’clock in the early hours of Sunday.
People living close to the scene of the attack were evacuated from their homes while the device was examined, they have since been allowed return home.
There are no reports of any injuries.
A 25-year-old man has been shot and beaten in an over night attack in Strabane.
The man was in bed with his partner when the front door of their Glebe Gardens home was forced and two masked men entered their bedroom.
The man was beaten with a bat as he lay in bed.
One of the attackers also fired a number of shots from a handgun hitting the man in an arm and a leg.
His girlfriend received head injuries during the attack.
Both were taken to hospital.
Hundreds of people are expected to converge in Lifford on Sunday afternoon to take part in a protest march against the closure of Lifford Community Hospital.
There is great concern that the HSE intends to close the hospital, with the IMPACT trade union going as far as to say that the decision has been made.
However the Health Service Executive has neither confirmed nor denied if the hospital is to close only to say that it is part of an overall review.
There are also fears that the Sheil and Rock hospitals in Ballyshannon face closure.
League Of Ireland First Division Results
Salthill Devon 0 v 1 Finn Harps
Derry City 0 v o Limerick
Finn Harps have now won two games in as many weeks. Having gone six matches without a win, The Ballybofey club have started the second series of games with full points. Tommy Bonar scored the only goal of the game in their one nil win away to Salthill Devon in Drom. The victory lifts Harps another place in the table to 7th.
Finn Harps Manager James Gallagher
Derry City remain top of the division despite a scoreless draw with Limerick at the Brandywell. Second place Waterford Utd also drew on Friday so Stephen Kenny’s side are still five points ahead but Waterford do have a game in hand.
A 65-year-old man who was extradited from Donegal will be sentenced on Monday after he admitted indecent assaults and committing gross indecency on his daughter and his niece.
The man who cannot be named for legal reasons appeared at Dery Crown Court where he admitted 19 charges of indecent assault and six charges of gross indecency against his dughter an niece
He also admitted assaulting his ex-wife on two different occasions.
The court heard that the assaults on his daughter began in the summer of 1978 when she was aged 12 an continued until she was aged 15.
They began when the girl’s mother got a job that entailed her working nights.
The assaults took various forms and Ms Jackie Orr QC for the Crown said they were a ‘regular and ongoing occurrence.’
The injured party told police that after they occurred she felt ‘really horrible and shivered with fear and cold.’
The court heard that after each occurrence the man would apologise and say it would not happen again.
The assaults on his niece began when the girl was aged around 5 and continued until she was aged about 11. It was said that these assaults occurred when both parties were fully clothed.
Defence counsel Mr. Martin Rodgers said his client had admitted an ‘appalling’ crime.
He said that his client had not sought to challenge the account given by the injured parties and had not opposed his extradition from Donegal.
A man who is paraplegic has been jailed for three years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin for INLA membership linked to a kidnap plot in Cork.
44-year-old Edward McGarrigle from Strabane was convicted last July of INLA membership in February 2008.
His sentencing was adjourned after McGarrigle, who has been confined to a wheelchair since 1984, fractured his leg, requiring extended medical treatment in the North.
44-year-old Eddie McGarrigle, whos in a wheelchair, 48-year-old John McCrossan of Ballycoleman Estate, Strabane and 55-year-old Neil Myles a native of Cork but of no fixed abode, were convicted last July; McCrossan and Myles were each jailed for 4½ years.
25-year-old Gareth Dunne Clonard Road, Crumlin, and 29-year-old Gerard Kelleher of Kevin Street, Dublin, were each jailed for four years after they pleaded guilty.
Det Insp Tom Maguire told the court that McGarrigle was shot in 1984 and since then had been a paraplegic. He had 66 previous convictions, mostly for minor offences.
He was jailed for nine years in Belfast in 1993 for conspiracy to murder and was also given a suspended sentence in 2006 for unlawful possession of a firearm.
The court said there was “background evidence of a well-organised plot to carry out some criminal enterprise” against a businessman and his family in Cork. The intended target was Denis Maguire, Montenotte, Cork.
Mr Maguire returned home at 8pm on February 22nd, 2008, in the company of two gardaí. Dunne and Kelleher were on the premises and were arrested and searched.
Mr Justice Paul Butler said the appropriate sentence would be five years but, taking into account McGarrigle’s medical condition, he reduced that by two years and backdated it to July 1st, 2009.
A 32-year-old man has been ordered, as a condition of bail, to see his doctor to get help for mental health issues.
David Howard Mallon, of Mosley Park, appeared at Derry Magistrates Court charged with making threats to kill and assaulting his partner.
Derry Magistrates Court was told that 32-year-old David Howard Mallon also faced the same charges in relation to his partner’s daughter and brother.
The incident is alleged to have happened on 20 May.
Mr Mallon was told to have no contact with his partner or her family.
District Judge Barney McElholm also said he was to immediately see his doctor and accept any treatment he saw fit for his mental health issues.
Police did not oppose the bail application and Mr Mallon will appear in court again on 24 June.
The HSE is recalling hundreds of patients in the West and North West for Hepatitis C screening.
It follows confirmation that a staff member at three of the regions hospitals was infected with the disease.
The healthcare employee worked in Letterkenny General Hospital, University Hospital in Galway and Mayon General between 2004 and 2008.
The HSE says the person was involved in a number of surgical procedures during that four year period.
Now over 450 former patients are being called in for what health officials say is precautionary screening.
They will be notified by post on Monday.
The Mayor of Buncrana says he believes a skate park would attract hundreds of people to Buncrana.
Cllr Lee Tedstone says he has spoken to a number of young people in the area who say there are not enough facilities available for them in the town.
He’s also spoken to a skating group in the North, who say they’d use a skating facility in Buncrana if there was one available.
Cllr Tedstone says a properly built skate-park is a viable proposition for the town…….
Proposals for a passport office in the Northwest have been welcomed by Donegal North East Deputy JoeMcHugh.
There’s a current backlog of 62-thousand passports waiting to be processed in the passport offices in Dublin and Cork.
It now takes up to 8 weeks to get a passport by ordinary post, or more than a month to recieve one through the express service.
Deputy McHugh says he spoke to one woman from Inishowen who had to go on a 320 mile round trip to check the status of her passport…………….
