A DONEGAL woman has collected a cool €28,000 on Winning Streak. Denise Moss from Castlefinn appeared on the show on Saturday night and was overjoyed with her €28,000 cash win. Denise revealed how her husband Martin roared the house down two Saturday evenings ago when he was watching Winning Streak and heard his wife’s name […]
Council backs motion supporting new stadium for Harps
DONEGAL County Council has this morning passed a motion supporting a new stadium for Finn Harps. A motion was brought forward after the stadium development was excluded from a round of Government funding it was expected to be added to recently. There was some shock when Minister Shane Ross made his announcement regarding Large Scale […]
Post mortem due on body found in Letterkenny
GARDAI are continuing to probe the circumstances surrounding a man’s death at a block of flats in Letterkenny. The male’s body was found late yesterday at Riverside Apartments on the town’s Lower Main Street. The area was sealed off and forensic officers brought in to examine the scene. A Garda spokesperson said a post mortem […]
Local politicians printed 300,000 items on Dáil printer
DONEGAL politicians used the Dáil printer to produce almost 300,000 items such as newsletters, posters, greeting and sympathy cards at a cost of over €8,400 since its introduction. The Oireachtas print facility hit the headlines late last year when it emerged that the printer cost a total of €2 million and did not fit in […]
Chance reunites late Tunnel Tiger’s family with fiancée
SHEER coincidence has reconnected a Scottish woman with the Termon family of the fiancée she lost in a tragic accident almost 60 years ago. Edward Gallagher’s story was not uncommon in the late 1950s – a Donegal man who travelled across the Irish Sea in search of work. He found employment as a tunneller on […]
Award keeps Hanna Hats ahead of the competition
HANNA Hats of Donegal, a third generation company that has been in business for nearly 100 years, is proof that age is no barrier to innovation. The family owned designer and manufacturer has been awarded ‘Exemplar Status’ as part of InterTradeIreland’s FUSION programme. It is one of only five businesses to be recognised across the […]
Artist transforms derelict Donegal cottage into a home
AN artist who was repeatedly turned down for a mortgage is settling into the derelict Donegal cottage he has turned into his new home. Ciaran Dunlevy decided to refurbish the ramshackle building after being told that because of his profession, he was unlikely ever to secure a loan to buy a house. Fed up by […]
Donegal man proposes to fiancée in most moo-ving way
A Donegal man may well have just secured the Oscar for the most moo-ving marriage proposal ever. Before taking the traditional route of getting down on one knee, Jamie Huey from Muff popped the question to his fiancée by spray-painting the big question on to two of her beloved cows. Jamie and partner Claire Dunn […]
Government told to ‘drop the spin’ on St Joseph’s
SINN Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has called on the Government and the HSE to “drop the spin” as he revealed no new funding has been approved for the redevelopment of St Joseph’s Hospital in Stranorlar. The revelation comes after the HSE yesterday announced it was commencing a €4 million “upgrading and refurbishment” programme at […]
‘Anti-immigration’ candidate emerges in Castlefinn
A Castlefinn man has entered the General Election race on a “pro-Christian, anti-immigration” ticket. Niall McConnell, a farmer from the Finn Valley, confirmed to the Donegal News this morning that he will seek election on February 8. “You may not have heard of me, but I do run one of Ireland’s biggest YouTube channels and […]