LEGENDARY Donegal Manager, Jim McGuinness, has been named as Donegal Person of the Year for 2012, much to the delight of a packed audience at Dublin’s Mansion House on Monday.
In recent years, Jim McGuinness has been the recipient of many awards after steering Donegal to All-Ireland final victor and back to back Ulster titles.
DONEGAL’S three RNLI lifeboat stations saved the lives of 68 people last year according to statistics released by the RNLI this week.
A SERIES of thefts in the Letterkenny area at the weekend are the most recent to add to a long list of incidents of burglaries and thefts which appear to be reaching epidemic proportions in the county.
GARDAI in Donegal have detained a further five men over the past 36 hours in their drive to clampdown on the spate of burglaries in the county in recent weeks.
GARDA operation led to the arrest of a suspected burglar in Kilmacrennan this morning (Friday) as he fled empty handed from the home of an elderly pensioner.
NEXT weekend, Saturday January 26, four ladies of Irish music with very strong Donegal roots are returning to the festival that brought them together for a unique project three years ago.
“THEY’RE getting away with murder” said irate pensioner Jim Steele as he described how he fought off a gang of raiders at his home in Manorcunningham.
RESIDENTS are demanding action be taken after a car overturned on a notoriously dangerous corner on the outskirts of Letterkenny.
A GANG has struck in what is believed to be the first identity theft scam of its kind in Donegal. Up to eleven cars were broken into and personal identity data stolen, in has been described as a very ‘sinister’ development in Letterkenny.
A PHOTOGRAPH of the night sky taken from Trusk Lough near Ballybofey was seen by millions of viewers on the BBC2 Stargazing programme on Wednesday night.