CELEBRATIONS are underway at the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny after it secured four prestigious awards at the Irish Hotel Awards. Staff from the Letterkenny hotel travelled to The Johnstown Estate in Enfield on October 20 to attend the awards ceremony, which returned this year with renewed purpose and prestige. The evening marked a powerful tribute to Ireland’s […]
Celebrations in Lifford to mark Red Hugh O’Donnell’s birthday
By Paul McElwee HISTORY came alive in Lifford at the weekend as crowds gathered to celebrate the legacy of Red Hugh O’Donnell, the famed Irish chieftain. The parade began at the Apple Green on Letterkenny Road, with devoted supporters marching through the streets where Red Hugh once lived before fleeing Ireland after the Nine Years War […]
A special return home to Gaoth Dobhair
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By Tommy Curran LAST week Mrs Grace Drummond travelled from Adelade in Australia to Sheskinbeg in Gaoth Dobhair to place the ashes of her mum, Ellen Hughes in the ruins of her former home. In the end bringing her mum’s ashes from Adelade to Sheskinbeg is more than a logical task, it is a pilgrimage of […]
Fresh Take: Secrecy will be the default not the exception if journalists are left outside
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By Sabrina Sweeney Most people in Donegal want two things: safety in their community and accountability of those delivering state services. For years, the Joint Policing Committees offered a public space where councillors, Garda representatives and members of the media could sit in the same room and discuss issues, with opportunities for concerns to be […]
The Way We Were
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Louise Doyle delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. OCTOBER 25, 1975 CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING KILLING SMALL SHOPS IN DONEGAL Advertisement Are Donegal’s smaller shops fading away? In the past three years, 19 shops have closed in west Donegal between Falcarragh and Crolly Bridge. Along the border, a number of smaller […]
The Third Degree: ‘You have to feel the music in every cell of your being’
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In this week’s The Third Degree column, Paul Bradley sits down with composer Vincent Kennedy. Hi Vincent, thank you for doing this interview. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself please? Originally from Donnybrook, Dublin, I now live near the mountains on the city’s edge. When I was 7, in 2nd class in […]
Channel Hopper: Folklore and mythology fuse in Irish language Halloween documentary
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LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL BBC1, Friday, 9pm For a few minutes of the opening episode of Leonard And Hungry Paul, I genuinely thought BBC had made a scheduling mistake: surely this was a gentle family soap, voiced by Julie Roberts no less, that should have lived on children’s TV? I’m happy to say I was […]
New book shares the stories of local Tunnel Tigers
BRENDAN Kennedy probably wasn’t the only teenager who crossed from Dungloe to work in the Scottish Highlands in 1952, growing a beard while sleeping in a field for a couple of weeks to help him look eighteen. Working at hardrock drilling and on the trimming gantries in DalcroyPitlochry, and Glascarnoch further north, was difficult and […]
Channel Hopper: Obituary returns somewhat unexpectedly for a second season
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By Paul Bradley Monster: The Ed Gein Story Netflix Woody Allen used to talk about an old joke: two elderly women are at a holiday resort, and one of them says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible”, and the other one replies “Oh, I know; and such small portions.” As if the […]
The Way We Were
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Aoife Doherty delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. OCTOBER 18, 1975 Top RTÉ men came to Letterkenny to meet the locals Advertisement WHEN Big Frank Hall rode into town flanked by top executives of finance and engineering of RTÉ it was not to sniff around his pet corner of […]