TWO great Burtonport community servants were remembered on Saturday afternoon when plaques were unveiled in their memory in the community garden at the rear of the Burtonport Community Centre, writes Eoin McGarvey John Mc Gee and Nora Houston died earlier this year just ten days apart. Nora, a former postwoman in the Burtonport area, passed […]
The way we were
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Aoife Doherty delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. AUGUST 9, 1975 Donegal’s first youth pilgrimage to Rome Advertisement DONEGAL’S first ever Youth Pilgrimage to Rome will take place early next month, when 20 young post-primary school students will join with young people from other Northern Dioceses of Kilmore, Dromore, […]
Reunion plans prompt memories of happy times for Gerry
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By Paddy Walsh GERRY McElroy’s first memory of St. Eunan’s College wasn’t quite associated with the building itself but with the obligatory entrance examination at the Brothers School. The results of that exam were posted up – for some reason – on the notice board in the Literary Institute, he recalls. Advertisement “One of the […]
Fresh Take: Award-winning Cloughaneely Band are also victorious in standing together through unimaginable loss
By Sabrina Sweeney This year has been a rollercoaster of emotion for the Cloughaneely Band, of soaring pride and deep grief, in a cycle that few communities will ever experience. In February, the local community was stunned by the sudden loss of 13-year-old Enya McMurrough, a bright and talented girl whose love of music she […]
Burtonport’s famous lobster back where he belongs
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By Róise Collins A BELOVED giant lobster has returned to his home, perched on a wall, overlooking the Burtonport harbour. The giant red crustacean, measuring close to eight feet in length, had been fixed to the outside of The Lobster Pot for close to 35 years. Advertisement But late last year the original lobster was […]
Oileán na Marbh service – a day of love and healing
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By Eoin McGarvey HUNDREDS of stillborn and unbaptised babies, together with several unidentified sailors were remembered at an interdenominational service on the seashore at the Carrickfin boat strand on Sunday afternoon. Oileán na Marbh is a small island just yards from the shore at the boat strand, accessible by foot at low tide. Relatives and […]
The death of the traditional wake
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Eamonn Coyle looks back on a time when wakes and funerals bound a community together. I GREW up in the townland of Bun-a Leaca, Gaoth Dobhair, in the 1970s and 1980s. My first memory of a major national and international event is Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972. That event led to 14 unnecessary wakes and […]
Over €700,000 announced for recreational projects and walks in Donegal
EIGHTEEN outdoor recreation projects and walks across Donegal are to benefit from over €700,000 in funding announced this morning. The allocation of €706,041 for Donegal is part of a nationwide allocation of €8.7 million for 221 recreational-based projects through the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS). Amongst the recreational projects for County Donegal is the Dungloe […]
Hiroshima Nagasaki 80th year commemorative event in Letterkenny
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A SMALL potent event took place in Letterkenny on Saturday morning last, to mark the 80th year since the dropping of two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Approximately, 546,000 people were killed in a horrific way. Some former members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament group of the 1980s marked the occasion at […]
Lives potentially at risk at one of Donegal’s oldest bridges – claim
Lives are potentially being put at risk due to serious structural cracks on one of Donegal’s oldest and most historic bridges. That’s according to Aontú’s Letterkenny Rep, Mary T Sweeney who says she is so concerned about expanding cracks on the Oldtown Bridge in the town, that she has written to the County Engineer seeking […]