DANIEL O’Donnell is supporting the Donegal Senior football team with a fundraising concert in the Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran, next month.
Winners of this year’s North West Words poetry comeptition winners announced
SIX talented students have been named as prize winners in the 2013 Schools Poetry Competiton run by North West Words. At a special prize giving ceremony at Cafe Blend in Letterkenny, the recipients were presented with their awards by Eamonn Bonner from North West Words. The Secondary School’s Senior Cycle First Prize went to Rachel […]
Staff of nationalised banks should sign Civil Service Code – McHugh
DONEGAL North East TD, Joe McHugh, has said that employees of banks that have received a bail-out and contingency funding from Irish taxpayers should be bound by the Civil Service Code.
‘Where are our TDs?’ Prayer and Walk for Life organisers ask
OVER 1,000 people attend Prayer and Walk for Life, but elected Dáil members do not appear despite invitation.
Ballintra native ordained as priest at St Eunan’s
BISHOP Boyce wishes newly-ordained priest ‘many happy and fruitful years as a priest of Christ’ in the diocese of Raphoe.
Jason hoists Everest flag on top of Errigal
HUNDREDS join Everest summiteer Jason Black on final leg of journey to take summit flag to where it all began.
Never mind Jimmy, here’s the real Rory Gallagher
ON A recent visit to Lanzarote Paddy Walsh spent some time with Rory Gallagher in his pub which has become a mecca for Donegal holidaymakers on the island.
US author finds inspiration in his Donegal roots
A RETIRED American engineer of Donegal descent has turned family history notes collected over several decades into a gripping historical fiction.
Emotional arrival in Paris for Gaoth Dobhair charity cyclist Jordanna
LAST Friday a young Gaoth Dobhair woman landed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris having cycled for five days from Dublin all in aid of a charity very close to her heart.
EXCLUSIVE: de Gallaí hails Letterkenny actor’s ‘Rising’ performance as amazing
A NEW play telling the story of the 1916 Rising in a very unique ‘Vaudeville’ way, starring a young Letterkenny actor in his first professional role and choreographed by a well-known West Donegal man, closes this weekend after its very first run.