A mother and her three-year-old son have escaped injury in a shooting in Strabane.

Two shots were fired at the back of a house in the Ballycolman area just after 7 o’clock yesterday evening.

The 22-year-old woman and her child were in the kitchen at the time and the shots hit the door.

A man, who is 35 years old and a 25-year-old woman were also in the house, they were not hurt.

Two men were seen running away from the house

The house where a convicted sex offender burnt his partner and five children to death is to be demolished.

Arthur McElhill killed his family in a house fire in Omagh, County Tyrone in 2007, because his partner, Lorraine McGovern threatened to leave.

The house will be demolished following the resolution of outstanding legal and procedural issues and following the completion of protracted discussions with the Housing Executive.

The counting of votes has been completed, and the make up of Donegal’s representation in the Dail has been confirmed.

Donal Kavanagh has a final report, beginning with the biggest news story to emerge from Donegal…….

As expected, Fianna Fail’s Charlie Mc Conalogue has been elected to the Dail, without reaching the quota. It wraps up the election in Donegal, with the county’s six TDs as follows -

Donegal North East

Padraig Mac Lochlainn  Sinn Fein

Joe Mc Hugh                     Fine Gael

Charlie Mc Conalogue    Fianna Fail

Donegal South West

Pearse Doherty       Sinn Fein

Dinny Mc Ginley     Fine Gael

Thomas Pringle      Independent

Distribution of Joe Mc Hugh’s surplus

Jimmy Harte                      Lab      +1088              7219

Charlie Mc Conalogue     FF     +731                   8976

Mc Conalogue deemed elected without reaching the quota

Distribution of John Ryan’s votes

Jimmy Harte                      Lab      +485              6131

Charlie Mc Conalogue     FF     +734                8245

Joe Mc Hugh                      FG      +3318              12,049

Because Joe Mc Hugh’s surplus (2569) exceeds the gap between Jimmy Harte and Charlie Mc Conalogue (2114), it is now being distributed.

After John Ryan’s votes are counted in Donegal North East, there’s speculation now that Joe Mc Hugh may now have a surplus which is wider than the gap between Jimmy Harte and Charlie Mc Conalogue, forcing a distribution of that surplus, and then a 10th count

Distribution of Dessie Shiels’ votes

Jimmy Harte                      Lab      +845              5646

Charlie Mc Conalogue     FF     +256                7511

Joe Mc Hugh                      FG      +584                8731

John Ryan                          FG        +105              5081 ELIMINATED

Distribution of John Ryan’s 5081 votes

Distribution of Ian Mc Garvey’s votes

Jimmy Harte                      Lab      +266              4801

Charlie Mc Conalogue     FF     +191                7064

Joe Mc Hugh                      FG      +485                8147

John Ryan                          FG        +26                 4976

Dessie Shiels                      Ind       +306              2605      ELIMINATED

Dessie Shiels’ 2605 votes now being distributed

Distribution of Mary Coughlan’s votes

Dinny Mc Ginley     FG           +782          11,369

Brian O’Domhnaill    FF          +3110         8834

Thomas Pringle         Ind         +1036       10,175

Dinny Mc Ginley and Thomas Pringle both deemed elected.