Aoife Doherty delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. If you have a photograph you would like published, send it to editor@donegalnews.com September 20, 1975 Advertisement Letterkenny bottom of list in Tidy Towns rating DONEGAL’S largest and most talked-of town, Letterkenny, has sunk right to the bottom of the […]
Class of 1990 return to St Eunan’s College
OVER 60 members of the St Eunan’s College Leaving Cert class of 1990 met up again at a special 35th anniversary reunion last weekend. Former classmates came from the United States, UK and all parts of Ireland to meet up once again. At a special welcoming event at the college, they were welcomed by Damien […]
Multi-agency search for a missing fisherman
MALIN Head Coast Guard are currently coordinating a search for a missing fisherman off the coast of Mullaghmore, Co Sligo. A member of the public alerted the coordination centre yesterday evening to a fishing vessel aground 2 nautical miles south of Mullaghmore Head. It is believed that the fisherman from the vessel had fallen overboard […]
Weather: Dry day with spells of hazy sunshine
TODAY will be dry for much of the day with spells of hazy sunshine. However, it will gradually turn cloudy through the evening with rain and drizzle moving towards nightfall. Highest temperatures of 14 to 17 degrees with winds increasing moderate to fresh, strong at times near Atlantic coasts. Advertisement Tonight will be quite wet […]
Deaths in Donegal, Friday, September 26
The following deaths have taken place in Donegal: Jack McLaughlin, Buncrana Paddy McGinley, Letterkenny and Falcarragh Advertisement Neil McDaid, Kilmacrennan and Nottingham Patrick John Laverty, Galway and Stranorlar Eileen Donnelly, Muff Una (Agnes) Smyth, Derry and Buncrana Evelyn Ruddy, Gleneely Jack McLaughlin, Buncrana The death has taken place in Donegal Hospice of Jack McLaughlin (Strain), […]
Donegal priest who ministered after bomb atrocity laid to rest
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By Alan Rodgers A FORMER parish priest who ministered to the people of Omagh in the aftermath of the 1998 Market Street bombing has been laid to rest in his native parish of Moville. Fr Michael Keaveney, who died at the weekend in his early nineties, had been a priest since 1951 and was among […]
North West News Group appoints Richard McClean as new CEO
NORTH West News Group is delighted to announce the appointment of Richard McClean as Chief Executive Officer. Mr McClean will take responsibility for shaping the future strategic direction of the company, working across its well-established newspaper and digital titles – the Ulster Herald, Tyrone Herald, Strabane Chronicle, We Are Tyrone, Fermanagh Herald, Donegal News and […]
Letterkenny gas substation plans close to national school appealed
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by Louise Doyle PLANS for a gas substation close to Lurgybrack National School given the green light by Donegal County Council have been appealed to An Cóimisiún Pleanála by a resident, on the grounds of the potential impact she says the development will have on children, farming operations and the environment. Donegal County Council granted planning […]
Letterkenny Reunion video screening tomorrow night
A YEAR on from last year’s wonderful Letterkenny Reunion, a special video of the celebrations will be shown at the Station House Hotel tomorrow night, Friday. The two-hour long video has been meticulously edited from hours of footage to showcase the highlights of what were a fantastic four days of events in Letterkenny in August […]
Minister to officially open new Jim Lynch Community Building
THE new €1.4m Jim Lynch Community Building at Letterkenny Community Centre is set to be officially opened today (Thursday) by the Minister for Social Protection and Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, Dara Calleary. As well as facilitating public events, meetings and functions, the new facility incorporates two new state-of-the-art dressing rooms […]