DONEGAL County Council Art Service will host its ninth annual Culture Night this Friday. Culture Night is an all-island public event celebrating culture, creativity and the arts and Letterkenny’s 2017 programme offers 40 diverse events in 25 venues, completely free of charge. All types of culture will be celebrated including visual art, music, theatre, sculpture, spoken […]
Errigal College 5k run and walk this Thursday evening
RUNNERS and walkers are being encouraged to pull on their trainers this Thursday evening for the ever popular Errigal College 5k. Registration for the fun 5k race and walk takes place in Errigal College at 5pm and the event then starts at 6.30pm in the nearby St Conal’s car park. The route of this year’s […]
Majella O’Donnell launches new breast cancer campaign
BREAST cancer survivor Majella O’Donnell has helped launch a new fundraising campaign by the Irish Cancer Society. The campaign called ‘Cups against cancer’ is asking people in Donegal to host a coffee morning in October. In 2014 88 women in Donegal received a breast cancer diagnosis with 2,900 women nationally diagnosed every year, that’s eight […]
Donegal anti-abortion campaigner begins hunger strike
A DONEGAL Independent election candidate has started a hunger strike outside the Dáil demanding that Leo Varadkar and the Oireachtas Committee on abortion watch a video of a termination before discussing a referendum any further. Tim Jackson from Ballybofey wrote to Leo Varadkar and Senator Catherine Noone, chairwoman of the committee, last week requesting the […]
Gardai investigating break in at petrol station
GARDAI are investigating a break in that occurred at Kernans Service Station at Tullygay outside Letterkenny this morning. A Garda Spokesperson said: “We called to a burglary incident at a petrol station in Tullygay at around 7am this morning. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.”
Muff shop owner describes lotto win as “life changing”
THE CENTRA shop owner in Muff, Kevin Doherty, described the €250,000 lotto win by one of his customers as “life changing” after the devastating floods in the area. Advertisement Mr Doherty’s store sold the Lotto Plus 2 top prize of €250,000 in Saturday night’s Lotto draw. “It’s quite an emotional day for us […]
Seamus Coleman: Taking those important baby steps
While the horrific leg injury has keep Coleman out of football for the past six months it did afford him the rare opportunity to lead a ‘normal’ life.
Electricity breakthrough ‘so simple it’s baffling’
A self-confessed “physics junkie” has developed a mechanism which he says could revolutionise the way electricity is generated. Energy and how it is created has been a passion of Chris Devine’s for decades. Now, from the garage of his Rossgier home, he believes he may have come up with a way of slashing household power […]
Debate to ask ‘What did the Council ever do for us?’
A DEBATE will take place in Letterkenny on Urban District Councils and Town Councils as part of Culture Night.
Kilcar, the home of both football and Hole-ball
Footballers from a previous generation took centre stage in Kilcar as they engaged in a game of holeball along the village’s main thoroughfare.