DONEGAL County Council is to deliver major safety improvements and road reconstruction works on the N13 from Admiran Park to Mc Clay’s Corner, and on the N15 Main Street through Stranorlar and Ballybofey. The proposed works will see the road reconstructed and resurfaced, with new traffic calming measures and raised pedestrian crossing points to improve […]
Donegal Travellers Project to celebrate 30th anniversary
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DONEGAL Travellers Project is set to mark its 30 year anniversary with a conference next Thursday at the Silver Tassie Hotel in Letterkenny. David Friel, ATU Letterkenny and Chairperson of the Board of Management at Donegal Travellers Project, is chairing the event. He said: “Donegal Travellers Project has spent 30 years challenging discrimination and advancing human rights […]
Fr Eddie Deeney: A life story told in bits and pieces
RATHMULLAN priest, Fr Eddie Deeney, recently held a book signing in Omagh for his memoir, ‘The Bits and Pieces of Everyday’. The book is a collection of moments throughout 90-year-old Fr Deeney’s life. He was inspired for the title of the book by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, whose line ‘God is in the bits […]
Letterkenny put on the map as leading tourist town
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AN ambitious plan has been unveiled to put Letterkenny on par with Killarney, Westport and Kilkenny as a tourist town. The new Go Visit Letterkenny website has been officially launched to promote the best the town has to offer. It was set up by local businesspeople from Letterkenny Tourism, with Chairman Brian Gallagher of the […]
O’Donnell family thank community following 40th anniversary events
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A REMEMBERANCE Mass took place in St Eunan’s Cathedral in Letterkenny last month to mark the 40th anniversary of the O’Donnell fire tragedy. Joe and Angela O’Donnell lost four children in the blaze which engulfed their home at 65 Ard O’Donnell on Saturday morning, April 26, 1986. The children who died were Sharon (14), Joanne (12), […]
Assets seized in Donegal as gardaí target online fraud
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DONEGAL was the focus of gardaí targeting online fraud connected to a money laundering network. Gardaí searched a number of properties in Donegal and other counties. They seized £174,000 sterling, €7,000, a motor vehicle and a number of items of evidential value during the operation, which included Longford and Louth. Advertisement Gardaí attached to the […]
Seán Feeny returns with moving new single Wildflowers
DONEGAL singer-songwriter Seán Feeny returns with Wildflowers, a more personal and intimate new single about trying to hold onto moments and people that never fully stay. Released today, the track continues the journey of Seán’s debut album Galactic Tides, which has earned support from RTÉ, Hot Press, The Star, The Irish News, Belfast Telegraph, and […]
Pride festival to paint town every colour of rainbow
THE annual Letterkenny Pride party gets into full swing from tomorrow when hundreds of revellers will celebrate Donegal’s LGBTQ+ community. Organisers officially launched the festival on Monday past with a flag-raising ceremony at Letterkenny Public Services Centre. But tonight is lift-off for many as the pre-festival celebrations get underway ahead of the high profile event […]
Delays and dithering blamed for children missing drug
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THIS Saturday marks a full year of HSE “delays and dithering” since a revolutionary drug’s approval – but Donegal children are still waiting for treatment, it is claimed. Boys like nine-year-old Aaron Langan, from Laghey, and young Ballybofey brothers Diarmuid and Nathan O’Sullivan all have severe, genetic disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). It is a […]
Donegal basks in warm weather but no temperature record
THE warmest ever May teased a glorious bank holiday weekend but Donegal thunderstorms are more likely than new temperature records, warn Met Eireann. In fact, the national weather service’s latest forecast is for a sharp drop in temperatures from tomorrow (Friday) and a sudden return of heavy rain. Meteorologists had forecasted highs for the county […]