MINISTER Joe McHugh has been ‘empty chaired’ after failing to turn up at a meeting to discuss the future of Lifford hospital. Representatives from across the political spectrum, including councillors, TDs and senators, attended the meeting in Lifford’s Social Centre. But Mr McHugh was a notable absentee and the Friends of Lifford Hospital campaign group […]

PEOPLE are being invited to form a vigil as the body of Ardara woman Mary Ellen Molloy is returned to her home in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Mary Ellen died in Australia on December 20 when a tree fell on the taxi she was travelling in with friends. The 26-year-old’s body will […]

A Killygordon woman is on top of the world following a proposal with a difference from her fiancée. Siobhán Dolan from Crossroads and boyfriend Stephen Coyle from Strabane now live and work in the United States. But they decided to commit to one another at the very roof of the world. Stephen had decided that […]

SHAUN Kelly, the Lifford man killed in a crash on St Stephen’s Day, will be laid to rest on Sunday. Mr Kelly died when his car struck a tree near Porthall. A father-of-two, the 33-year-old was the sole occupant of a blue Vauxhall car which left the road between Porthall and Rossgier at around 12.30am. […]

TO describe Myles Gallagher’s life as interesting would be to sell it short and by some margin. From being a teenage taxi driver in Donegal to joining the New Zealand airforce to providing waiter service to Neil Armstrong, it would be fair to say the Gortahork man has been around a few corners in his […]

A man in his 30s has died following a crash close to Lifford this morning. The single vehicle incident occurred on the R265 from the direction of Porthall towards Rossgier at around 12.30am. The injured man was initially treated at the scene by ambulance personnel before he was taken to Letterkenny University Hospital in a […]

MORE than €100,000 has been raised in a matter of days following the tragic death in Australia of Mary Ellen Molloy. The 26-year-old from Ardara died on Friday when a tree fell on the taxi she was travelling in with friends. Mary Ellen had been working as a nurse in Melbourne when the accident occurred. […]

TRIBUTES have been paid following the death of a young Donegal woman in Australia. Mary Ellen Molloy from Ardara was killed when a tree fell on a taxi she was travelling in yesterday. The 26-year-old had been working as a nurse in Melbourne when the freak accident occurred. Ms Molloy is the niece of GAA […]