RORY Kavanagh will captain Donegal for Sunday’s Ulster senior football championship preliminary round game against Cavan at Kingspan Breffni Park (throw-in 3.30pm).
Over €45,000 for conferences
THE Donegal News has learned that twenty two County Councillors have so far been paid almost €45,000 for attending conferences up and down the country last year.
Gemma (16) desribes battle with cancer
IN tomorrow’s Donegal News brave 16-year-old Gemma Carroll from Glenswilly tell us in her own words how she has battled cancer.
Dungloe native is named IPU president
A DUNGLOE native has become the first ever Donegal man to be elected to the prestigious position of President of the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU).
Donegal gold mine in Australian outback
AN HISTORIC gold mine in the heart of the Australian outback has strong connections with County Donegal, dating back to its foundation almost 140 years ago.
Brave Oisin overcomes the odds
BRAVE Oisin Roberts (5) weighed just 900gms when he was born at 26 weeks. He subsequently spent four months in hospitals in Dublin and Letterkenny and his loving mother, Tanya, from Carrigart was unable to hold him until he was a month old.
Combined effort needed to save heart of Cathedral Town
FOLLOWING the shock closure of one of the oldest businesses on Letterkenny’s Main Street, two business people there have called for a combined effort in order to save the heart of the town.
Was Dracula a Donegal man?
Dracula author Bram Stoker may have been inspired by his Donegal chieftain ancestor and not the blood-thirsty Vlad the Impaler as had widely been thought, new research has found.
One million ploughed into ground
ALMOST €1million worth of potatoes has been ploughed back into the ground or sold for a pittance as cattle feed, a leading grower said this week.
Gaoth Dobhair centre has major plans
A MAJOR initiative to provide more services to the community, sell the region and promote the Irish language will be launched in Gaoth Dobhair next week.