LETTERKENNY’S Sector 001 Comics will celebrate its first birthday tomorrow (Saturday) from 9am to 6pm. Not satisfied with giving away free treat-bags and balloons for children, free donuts and water and of course some free comics, Sector 001 is having a sale. There will be ten per-cent off the marked price of all comics, action […]

DONEGAL performers will be among the talented line-up at Strabane’s first ever Danceathon which will see 12 hours of non-stop dancing through the decades this weekend. More than 100 participants will showcase their dance skills in St Patrick’s Hall on Saturday, August 31 from noon until midnight, in aid of well known local charities. A […]

IF you are heading off to Electric Picnic tomorrow you will want to pack an umbrella. And a poncho. And a couple of changes of clothes. Met Eireann has just issued a status yellow rainfall warning for ten counties including Donegal. The warning comes into effect tomorrow morning at 6am and will remain valid for […]

LONG before the advent of discount supermarkets like Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, rural Ireland depended on mobile shops. The sight of the van trundling up the lane was a welcome one for families living in the most isolated parts of Donegal. Not only did the mobile shop deliver groceries, the owner brought a fresh social […]

THE ISPCA has put out a call for the owner of two rabbits found on the loose in Buncrana to come forward. The ISPCA responded to a call from a member of the public about two rabbits on the loose in the Woods Estate near Buncrana. The animals had been sighted by a number of […]

FORMER Finn Harps footballer Dr Darragh McGee has voiced concerns over the normalisation of gambling which, he insists, has become culturally embedded in the modern world. Dr McGee, an assistant professor at Bath University in England, has conducted a major study which focuses on the impact of gambling on young men in the cities of […]