Boy (11) who cut toe in Donegal hotel swimming pool awarded €10,000


AN 11 year old boy who caught his toe on a broken tile in a hotel swimming pool has been awarded €10,000 in general damages at Letterkenny Circuit Court. The incident occurred at the Redcastle Hotel on August 13, 2020 when the boy was six. The infant was taken to Dungannon Hospital in County Tyrone for treatment […]

Council spends €25,000 on ‘watching brief’ 


by Louise Doyle DONEGAL County Council has spent almost €25,000 on a Dublin-based solicitor who had been keeping a ‘watching brief’ on legal proceedings against a local councillor, we can reveal. Information released to the Donegal News through a request under the Freedom of Information Act shows Donegal County Council has paid €24, 848.50 on attendances […]

The Donegal man mentored by acclaimed pianist


by Kate Heaney PERMISSION to practise on the Loreto Letterkenny’s Steinway piano, in advance of a 15-year-old getting ready to sit a Royal Irish Academy of Music exam, changed the life of a Milford teenager from which he has never looked back. Gerard O’Donnell, pictured right, was practising his pieces on the piano as people milled […]

From a Donegal sunset into a Yorkshire dawn


by Paddy Walsh SIX and a half years after there had been a warm welcome in the hills for them, two clerics, Rev David and Heather Houlton, are preparing to take their leave off their parishes and their home in Letterkenny. The Church of Ireland community along with representatives from other denominations and local schools […]

Local hero rescues man from house fire


THE heroic actions of a young Ballyare man saved the life of an elderly man when he entered the burning house at Corkey Manorcunningham to rescue his grandfather’s neighbour. Kealan Dolan put aside his own safety after he noticed smoke coming from the elderly man’s house eight days ago. He jumped from his jeep and […]