Father and son rescued off Gola Island


ARRANMORE RNLI lifeboat spent the early hours of Friday morning assisting a father and son on bard a 30 foot yacht who got into difficulty off Gola Island in the dark.


Army remove suspect device from Councillor’s Downings property


A SPOKESPERSON for the army described the operation involving a device placed on a vehicle, outside a house in Carrigart, as “ongoing” at lunch time today (Friday). Meanwhile a garda confirmed that the device placed on a caravan outside a house belonging to recently elected Independent Cllr John O’Donnell, taken away by the army’s bomb […]


Donegal has one in three equine emergencies


DONEGAL has accounted for more than one third of calls to the Irish Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) this year to help 27 horse and 16 donkeys. Donegal County Council dealt with a further 13 equines found abandoned, straying or dumped bringing the total for the county to 56.