The post-mortem examination on the body of a 71-year-old man concluded today. There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the man's death.

A former civil servant has been jailed for one year for selling confidential information to private investigators.

A man charged with two counts of rape has been allowed to travel to Britain for two music festivals.

A judge has struck out the case of a man charged with careless driving, after hearing the 103-year-old who struck a pedestrian was never in court before.

A father has been sentenced to 14 days in jail and his partner fined after their teenage daughter missed 164 days from a 167-day school year.

A body of a man has been discovered in an apartment in the Lower Main Street area of Letterkenny in Donegal.

Gardaí in Letterkenny, Co Donegal have been praised by the ISPCA for caring for a 10-day-old male puppy after rescuing him from a hedge.

A cancer patient was given vital pre-chemotherapy treatment on a trolley in a corridor at Letterkenny General Hospital this week.

It took more than a half- century of whole-hearted commitment but finally Letterkenny has won the title of the country’s Tidiest Town.

Vandals who damaged trees should be flogged with the branches they broke off, a town mayor has suggested.

A second fisherman has died after being overcome by fumes while working on a trawler in Killybegs, Co Donegal, on Monday.

ON THE occasion of its 25th anniversary, a new production of Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa begins a four-day run An Grianán in Letterkenny tonight.

330 new jobs are being announced for Letterkenny in Donegal.

An investigation into the death of Letterkenny girl Tory Johnston has been unable to find a cause of death.

A Donegal woman has become the first person to be successfully prosecuted under the Animal Health and Welfare Act, as she pleaded guilty to abandoning a dog with no food or water.

Karen Buckley’s family  face an agonising wait before they can bring her body home for burial; Médecins Sans Frontières is launching a search-and-rescue operation for Italian migrants; and Leinster scuppered by Toulon. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

One woman in Donegal was having none of it when her husband told her he found a live grenade in the garden.

It was a victory to savour for the locals as Donegal cousins Declan Boyle and Brian Boyle (Subaru) won the Letterkenny-based Donegal International Rally, round four of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship.

A member of the Defence Forces appeared in court last night on explosives charges.