Row erupts over closure of Coast Guard stations

A row has erupted over the proposed closure of the Valentia and Malin Head Coast Guard stations.

The Department of Transport is planning to shut both facilities and combine them into a new urban centre.

Fine Gael, however, claims the Government is ignoring a report launched two years ago by Minister Dermot Ahern which recommended that the two stations be upgraded.

Fine Gael's Joe McHugh, a TD in Donegal North-East, says the Government has made a massive u-turn on foot of a flawed new report.