AS winter 2021 approaches Donegal County Council has issued warnings to a number of landowners to cut back overgrown road-side hedges, tress and briars. Overgrown hedges can impair driver visibility and overhanging branches can cause damage to high sided vehicles such as lorries, ambulances and fire engines. Last week, the Council erected notices at the […]
MacGill School goes online for a second year
DR Mike Ryan, who has led the global response to Covid-19, and Mary Ellen McGroarty, the Mountcharles-born leader of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan, are among the speakers at next week’s annual MacGill School. Now in its 41st year, the MacGill School will be online for the second year from Wednesday to Friday. When […]
‘Spike’ warning after weekend incident in Donegal
VICTIMS of drink ‘spiking’ are being urged to come forward and report it to local gardaí in the wake of an incident in Derrybeg. Gardaí received reports of people passing out at a premises in Derrybeg on Friday night . However, on arrival to the scene, no-one was present and the staff at the location […]
Fears more infrastructure could be added to mast
A Donegal county councillor says he fears a phone mast being erected at a Ramelton beauty spot could get bigger as time goes on. Ian McGarvey narrowly avoided arrest after blocking the entry to Drumonaghan Wood recently. The 91-year-old was protesting against plans to construct a telecommunications mast in the forest. Work on erecting the […]
Saolta to meet NHS this week
HEALTH Care Group Saolta will meet NHS Scotland this week to discuss bringing an independent external team over to review management and governance at Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH). Speaking to the Donegal News ahead of the meeting Saolta CEO Tony Canavan said the move to bring in a team from the UK shows how seriously […]
Butchers are taking on a Himalayan task
A DONEGAL butcher is using a two-metre high solid wall of Himalayan rock salt bricks to dry–age premium beef sourced from local suppliers. The translucent blocks were imported by McConnell’s Butchers, Ballybofey, from mines in the foothills of the Himalayas in Pakistan’s Punjab region. Each of the 360 salt blocks was individually hand cut. Shane […]
Racing ahead in the online marketplace
A London-based entrepreneur says that south-west Donegal will always hold a special place in his heart. Samuel Hunt (28) is co-founder and CEO at Materials Market whose creative solution to ease supply chain issues sparked the interest of seed venture capitalist fund, Fuel Ventures, which invested £1.5m in the new tech start-up last month. Born […]
PETA welcomes end to ‘cruel’ mink farming industry
ANIMAL rights group PETA says the sooner the book is closed on the “cruel and dangerous” industry of mink farming the better. PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – was reacting to the news that a Donegal mink farmer is to receive a share of a multi-million compensation package. Tazetta Teoranta, based […]
Charity event in memory of baby Theo Robinson
A CONVOY mother whose baby died when he was four months old is raising money for a charity set up to support bereaved parents to mark her son’s one year anniversary. Donna Robinson (34) from Convoy lost her four-month old son Theo on October 26, 2020. Theo was born five weeks premature and spent many […]
Plans to open Ireland’s only thatching school in county
THE restoration of thatched cottages on the Wild Atlantic Way in recent years has led to plans to open a school in Donegal devoted to the ancient craft of thatching. The promoters, Narin, Portnoo, Rosbeg Community Co-Operative Limited, say that the thatcher traineeship course in The Dolmen Centre will be the first of its kind […]