A new mural featuring village character Joey Ward has recently been unveiled in Doochary Village. The original mural had been vandalised with the wall unable to hold paint, so the committee rose to the challenge of creating a new one. The mural features aspects of wildlife and pollinators that the committee have been working extremely […]
Parish priest pays tribute to Jimmy McKenna who died in weekend road collision
The funeral will take place in Buncrana on Wednesday of James (Jimmy) McKenna, 5 Logan Close, Luddan, Buncrana, who died in a fatal road collision in Moville at the weekend. The 25 year-old died at the scene after being struck by a car shortly after 1.30am on Sunday at Ballynally, near Moville. Jimmy was a […]
ELECTION 2024: Ardara’s Siobhán Shovlin is elected in Dublin
Ardara native Siobhán Shovlin has been re-elected in the Castleknock LEA in Dublin. Fine Gael candidate Siobhán was elected on the fifth count after exceeding the quota. School teacher Siobhán is a daughter of Conal and Bernadette Shovlin, and although resident in the capital she maintains close links with her native Donegal. She is well […]
ELECTION 2024: Long day in Glenties comes to an end with final seats filled
As the race for the four remaining seats in the Glenties Electoral Area intensified on Sunday evening, a brief power outage left candidates, the media and most importantly, electoral staff counting ballot papers in the Highland’s Hotel, in darkness. But once power was restored, the final seats were eventually filled on the 10th count with […]
ELECTION 2024: McClafferty polls well in Glenties; Carr expected to take a seat
Five years after just missing out on election, Sinn Fein’s Brian Carr looks like taking a seat in the Glenties MD. The tally figures have the Glenties man sitting on 1,003 first preference votes, while his party colleague John Sheamais O Fearraigh is close behind on 968. They could well take two of the six […]
ELECTION 2024: Tallies predicting that Martin Scanlon will top the poll in Lifford-Stranorlar
The performances of Martin Scanlon and Niall McConnell were the big talking points when the tally figures were weighed up from Lifford-Stranorlar MD. Scanlon looks like topping the poll with the tallies predicting the Independent candidate to poll 1,387, just around 200 short of the predicted quota of 1,582. Niall O’Connell meanwhile polled 856 first […]
ELECTION 2024: ‘Hard work paying dividends’ – Naughton
Cllr Michael Naughton wore a broad smile in the Aura Leisure Centre in Letterkenny as the tally figures put him on track to retain his seat in the Donegal Municipal district. The Fianna Fáil councillor looks set to come in just under the quota which is predicted to be 1,937, with the tallies predicting Naughton […]
ELECTION 2024: Battle royale expected for final seats
Fianna Fáil look set to take the first two seats in Letterkenny with the tally figures predicting that Cllr Donal Mandy Kelly will exceed the quota on the first count. With the quota predicted to be at around 1,603, Cllr Kelly, according to the tallies, will get 1,791 first preference votes. He will be followed […]
ELECTION 2024: Murray and Beard poll well in South Inishowen
The success of 100% Redress party candidate Joy Beard is one of the big stories from South Inishowen (Buncrana) with the tally figures predicting she will exceed the quota and gain election on the first count. According to the tallies, Jack Murray of Sinn Féin will top the poll, with Beard finishing a close second. […]
ELECTION 2024: Success of 100% Redress candidates “frightening” for main parties – McDaid
FORMER Fianna Fáil Minister Dr James McDaid said the success of the 100% Redress party candidates in Donegal is “frightening” for the Government parties. The former TD offered his thoughts to the Donegal News earlier today as the tally figures indicated major support for Tomás Seán Devine in Letterkenny and his party colleagues Joy Beard […]