TWO Letterkenny-based friends are finalising plans to transform honey, water and yeast into mead, the world’s oldest alcoholic drink. The Ulster Mead Company will initially produce two varieties of the beverage in their new meadery which is located in the former Convoy Woollen Mills building. ‘King of the North’ and ‘Ragnar’ are both made with […]
Charity has helped repatriate 36 Donegal people
A CHARITY set up by grieving parents after the loss of their son has helped bring home 36 Donegal people who have died abroad in the past eight years. The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust was set up by Kevin’s parents Colin and Eithne after their son tragically passed while living abroad in 2013. They have […]
‘Now the valley is dark, from one end to the other’
THE last resident living in the Croaghs in the heart of the Bluestacks was laid to rest in Edeninfagh Cemetery this week. John McLoone (87) was born in the famous valley which had over 300 people at the 1911 census and a primary school. It is now empty of all but sheep. Local folklore was […]
Top Donegal rally team revving up for the new season
A LETTERKENNY based rally team has grown to become one of the biggest and most professional rallying outfits in the country. Run by Philip Case out of the Carrygally Business Park, Lismonaghan, the PCRS team has built a strong reputation in Ireland and the UK over the past sixteen years. In more recent times, the […]
Win a field in the Donegal Gaeltacht for £1
A FIELD is to be raffled on St Patrick’s Day to provide funds to build hurling and camogie facilities in Derry. Na Magha CLG have acquired the two-acre field outside Doochary and is selling tickets to win the ‘pound field’. Club officials are asking gaels to support the only surviving hurling club in Derry city […]
Brothers seriously injured in workplace accident
TWO Gortahork brothers were seriously injured in a workplace accident in Burtonport on Wednesday afternoon. The incident happened at around 3.30pm on the site of the new €4 million Burtonport Harbour Redevelopment project. It is understood both men fell from a height. Emergency services were quickly on the scene and the brothers were taken by […]
Diffing track owner backs calls for greater regulation
THE owner of a legal ‘diffing’ track says he fully supports calls for stricter regulations. Diffing, a form of drifting where cars perform manoeuvres such as donuts, was brought into sharp focus during the summer when hundreds of modified vehicles gathered in Letterkenny during what traditionally would have been Rally Weekend. Their well-publicised antics, which […]
New Principal named at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair
SEOIRSE Ó Dochartaigh has been appointed as the new Principal of Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair. A native of Ardara, Seoirse has spent nineteen years as a staff member teaching Geography. He will succeed the current principal, Seamus Ó Briain, who has spent over seventeen years teaching in Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair, a dozen of whom as Deputy […]
‘The younger lads in their forties fly about the place’
A LETTERKENNY football legend continues to show the youngsters how it is done on the playing field. Brian Ferry, who celebrates his sixtieth birthday this weekend, played for Letterkenny Rovers for more than a decade before giving younger players a chance. Ferry – dubbed ‘Letterkenny’s Glenn Hoddle’ – was part of the Rovers team that […]
Worries grow as rental market gets smaller
A MICA campaigner has carried out research analysing the rental market in Donegal and as of last week, only 33 rental properties were available for rent in Donegal on Daft.ie. Majority of these properties were in the Letterkenny area (26) while two were available in Ballybofey, one in Dungloe, two in Dunfanaghy, one in Glenties […]