GALLERY: The Week in Pictures


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.   

€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 […]