In a statement, the service says supplies of O Positive are down 23% on last week and these need to be replaced.

The mobile unit will hold a donation clinic in St. Crona’s National School in Dungloe today 3-5pm & 7-9.30pm.

In addition to O positive, there is a requirement for 10 A negative and 5 B negative donations at this clinic today.

Post mortem results from the eagle, found dead sonme weeks ago in the Blue Stack mountains, showed it had been poisoned.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service are investigating the killing.

Minister Jimmy Deenihan urged that anyone with information about the matter should contact the local Garda Siochána or the National Parks and Wildlife Service on 095-41054.

The dead bird was found by Lorcan O’Toole of the Golden Eagle Trust in Donegal, he says the vast majotrity of farmers in that area have been law abiding…………

Jack Brady who didn’t feature in the league starts at corner forward, Brady won a Sigerson cup medal withDCUearlier this year.Kevin Meehan, Robert Maloney-Derham, Niall Smith and Brendan Fitzpatrick also make their Championship debuts.

Donegal will continue with their preparations tonight at training. It’s a different playing field for Donegal in 2012 with the rest of the counties looking to dethrone the Ulster Champions of last year.

Tom Comack has being getting the players thoughts ahead of this years campaign.

Mark Mc Hugh

Leo McLoone

Paul Durcan

Patrick Mc Brearty

Tune in on Sunday afternoon for the build up and the entire match live with the Highland team of Charlie Collins and Declan Bonner.

The area has been closed since 2008 as part of a cod recovery plan.

However, there has been a significant increase of haddock in the area with calls for Donegal’s inshore vessels to be allowed a catch closer to shore.

The Killybegs Fishermens Organisation’s Sean O’Donoghue hopes a resolution can be found before the end of the year:

Councillor Ciaran Brogan, who is a member of the Regional Health Forum, also believes it is inevitable that Lifford Community Hospital will be downgraded and the same fate may await other hospitals in the county.

He says most community hospitals are being run to a very high standard but are still classed as under-performing by HIQA with the authority’s reports then being used as an excuse to close them.

Councillor Brogan says the HSE needs to review the situation:

RAAD has been behind paramilitary-style shootings against those they claim are guilty of so-called “anti-social behaviour” in Derry.

The man, who did not give his name, said he had been threatened by RAAD, and he said that RAAD ruled his area of Derry and people were afraid to speak out.

Meanwhile, the most senior police officer in the north west has admitted his officers are struggling to secure convictions against the republican vigilante group.

Derry journalist, Eamon McDermott, says the group have started targetting people involved in anti-social behaviour in more recent times…

At an earlier court appearance, Damien McGeehan of Loughanure, Annagry was charged with assaulting 19-year-old Simone Duggan at a residence on Lough Road, Milford.

The 21-year-old will appear again at Falcarragh District Court today.

The case is expected to be adjourned to a later date.

The coronor stressed that no staff were to blame, because the hospital wasn’t a closed unit, and the patient, Paddy Keeney, had exercised his option to go out.

The inquest was told how Mr Keeney  went missing from the hospital,  and although a search was launched, he was later found drowned.
Coroner Dr Diarmuid Hegarty was told at the Donegal town hearing that local CCTV footage showed Mr Keeney levering himself on to a pier wall with his walking stick in Killybegs at 10.59 am, shortly after he disappeared from the hospital.

The same footage four minutes later showed that he was gone from the wall.

Killybegs Coast Guard lifeboat crew member Damian McIntyre told of joining a search and first fetching the body of a fisherman Michael McIntyre from the water although he wasn’t reported missing.

Some hours later they found Mr Keeney’s body in the water at nearby Townasligo, Bruckless.

Dr Hegarty said the evidence before him showed that patients had the right of access into and out of the Community Hospital, and there was no implication of neglect of lack of care on anyone’s part.

The coroner said that Mr Keeney, who was from Killybegs and was a patient in the hospital for 11 years, had exercised his option to go out.

Dr Hegarty added that it appeared as if Mr Keeney certainly knew what he was doing.

The jury returned a verdict of suicide

The debate will feature Fine Gael Deputy, Joe McHugh arguing in favour, and Independent Deputy Thomas Pringle arguing against.

The debate has been organised by the Stranorlar Traveller Women’s Group and Donegal Travellers Project.

It will begin at 2pm in the Balor Arts Centre.

One of the organisers, Ann McClean from the Donegal Travellers Project, says there is still a lot of confusion amongst the public about the referendum….

A motion was passed at this weeks meeting of the council off the back of a request by campaign group ‘Donegal Action for Cancer Care’.

Some services have already been cut at the hospital which has effectively lost 12 and a half million euro from its budget over the past two years.

The issues was raised by Councillor Dessie Larkin, he says Letterkenny General is being punished for its success: