A BRIGHT sunny day on Friday, July 19 saw the grand opening of the new Brennans Pharmacy Letterkenny in the Forte Retail Park. Brennans is conveniently located just across from Costa in the new Dunnes Stores car park with over 650 free parking spaces. The Brennans Pharmacy team were joined in store by John Breslin and crew from […]
Donegal mother highlights the dangers of Snapchat
by Dionne Meehan A DONEGAL mother has highlighted the dangers of Snapchat this week after her child was allegedly groomed on the app. Snapchat is a popular messaging app that lets users exchange pictures and videos, called snaps, that are meant to disappear after they’re viewed. Advertisement Sounds relatively harmless? Not in the case for one […]
Change suggested for Oliver Plunkett Road parking bay
by Kate Heaney IMPROVEMENTS proposed for the Oliver Plunkett Road disabled parking space at July’s Letterkenny/Milford MD meeting has led to a letter from a member of the public, to the Donegal News, suggesting further improvements. Two weeks ago Councillor Jimmy Kavanagh proposed that the disabled parking bay at Oliver Plunkett Road be rendered useless because there […]
Convicted Castlefin rapist jailed for stalking
A CONVICTED Castlefin rapist has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to stalking a Tyrone mother. Desmond Leitch (36), of Skelpy, Castlefin, was sentenced at Strabane Magistrates Court for committing the offence on dates between May 21 and May 23. In her sentencing remarks, District Judge Alana McSorley observed that it had been a ‘calculated and sinister’ offence […]
Author found peace in Donegal
by Kate Heaney EDNA O’Brien, internationally acclaimed author, found the peace of West Donegal an escape from the frenetic world of London society and writing. She owned a house near Carrickfin for almost 20 years, and according to her friend and poet Anne Enright when the builders left the site every evening, “the cement blocks they […]
PARENTING COLUMN: Disappointment is a fact of life
‘Where there are winners, there are of course losers.’
Multi agency plea for bank holiday safety
A number of agencies are jointly calling on people to continue to exercise care this Bank Holiday weekend.
Cancer patient (74) dies at home without promised palliative care
By Dionne Meehan THE daughter of a Newtowcunningham woman, who died days after she was told no in-home weekend palliative care was available for her after being discharged from hospital, is calling for change. Having previously beat breast cancer, Bernadette Doran (74) was given the devastating news in March that her cancer had returned and was […]
Two firearms and ammunition seized in Burnfoot
ENQUIRIES are ongoing after gardaí seized two firearms and a quantity of ammunition in Burnfoot at the weekend. This comes after gardaí conducted a planned search of a vacant property in the area on Saturday, July 27. A garda spokesperson said: “In the course of the search two firearms were recovered along with a quantity […]