See some of this weeks featured pictures from around the County including the Fodder crisis, Dungloe Marching band Competition, All County Football league action, Finn Harps against local rivals Derry City and the Pan Celtic Festival. Se Friday and Monday’s Donegal News each week for the latest News and Sport coverage.
Age is no barrier for a true Rosses bandsman
Initially known as Ghandi’s Band they joined forced with the local Hibernian Band to form the Annagry Fife and Drum Band back in the 1950s.
€109,000 boost for Donegal’s heritage projects
A total of €109,000 in funding has been allocated to Donegal in support of local heritage projects. The funding was announced by the Minister for Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, under the 2018 Structures at Risk Fund and the Built Heritage Investment Scheme 2018. Government Chief Whip and Minister for the Irish language, […]
TG4’s Mám Trasna documentary to air tonight
A drama based on a book by Donegal journalist Seán Ó Cuirreáin, examining the infamous Mám Trasna murders in 1882, will be aired tonight on TG4. The programme goes out days after President Michael D Higgins announced that he has been advised to pardon one of the men wrongly executed for the brutal […]
Number of youngsters enjoying ‘Wainfest’ sky rockets
DONEGAL County Council has revealed that the number of young people attending Wainfest in 2017 increased by more than 100 per-cent to just over 7,100. Wainfest is Donegal’s Arts and Book Festival for Children and is one of the leading festivals for children in the country. “This increase is phenomenal,” said Sinead […]
Letterkenny man named on Irish U18 Schools rugby team
The final game of the series sees Ireland U18 Schools take on Scotland U18 in Cardiff on Sunday.
Seventeen patients over 75 left on trolleys for a day
Figures from the Health Service Executive show that more than 1,200 people over 75 have experienced a wait time of more than 24 hours in Saolta Group
Parking spaces at LUH generate €33 for public health
There are a total of 1,239 car park spaces between the two sites with 42 disabled spaces, two spaces for the elderly and 83 reserved spaces.
Car engine was purring for a very good reason
Five-month-old cat, which has been renamed Lucky, had just been found trapped in a car engine when the mechanic lifted the bonnet to start his work.
Ulster boxing titles from young Donegal brothers
Seán Brady Devenney (11) and older brother Cathaír (12) from Corgary, Ballybofey, now progress to the All-Ireland finals in Dublin next week.