ESB Networks is informing customers that a planned outage impacting parts of Ballinacor, Ballyarrell, Belalt, Killygordon and surrounding areas that was scheduled for Sunday, May 8 has been postponed and will be rescheduled in due course. Customers will receive correspondence to notify them of this change and separately, on when a date for the rescheduled […]
Donegal to get €2.3m in Housing Adaptation Grants
DONEGAL County Council is to receive a funding increase to help older people and those with a disability live independently. The local authority will receive just over €2.3 million, 80 per-cent of which is funded by the exchequer. Confirming the allocation Letterkenny councillor Jimmy Kavanagh said the money will help those who need and deserve support to live […]
Singer’s emotional encounter with young refugee
A big-hearted gesture by local singer Brí Carr reduced a Ukranian mother to tears. The soul-warming encounter took place in Letterkenny’s twin town of Rudolstadt where Brí, along with over 30 other Donegal people, spent St Patrick’s Day. The small town in Germany’s Thuringia region has become famous for its St Patrick’s Day party which this year […]
Walk for Unity to take place this weekend
THE people of Donegal and Tyrone are being urged to take part in the latest ‘Walk for Irish Unity’ due to take place this weekend. Starting at 11am on Saturday at the Diamond in Lifford and finishing at the Tinnies in Strabane, the event is the second such walk to take place in recent years. What is believed to have […]
Actress Laura is ready for take-off in Dramateurs
FROM being a flight attendant with Emirates Airline, Laura Gleeson is currently waiting in the wings to take off with the revised production of the Letterkenny Music and Drama Group’s Festival play, ‘Dramateurs’. After scooping awards at a number of the drama festivals before lockdown condemned it and other such shows to those same wings, […]
Letterkenny filmmaker’s new movie released this Friday
A new movie by Letterkenny filmmaker Gerard Lough hits Irish cinemas this Friday. Set across a number of locations thriller ‘Spears’ follows a private investigator from Ireland to Florence as he tries to track down a woman who mysteriously vanished there. Meanwhile in London a dissident republican does an arms deal with a new seller he […]
Gardaí renew appeal ten years on from dissident murder
GARDAÍ have issued a fresh appeal for information ten years on from the murder of Andrew Allen. Mr Allen, who was 24, was murdered at his home in at Links View Park, Buncrana, on February 9, 2012. The killing was claimed by micro-group Republican Action Against Drugs who labelled him as a drug dealer. This […]
‘Canine corridors’ to be developed on blue flag beaches
DOGS will be allowed on ten of Donegal’s blue flag beaches via a series of ‘canine corridors’ being developed by the local council. The plans were relayed to members of the Climate Action and Environment Strategic Policy Committee following a week of debate and backlash. Heritage body An Taisce wrote to all local authorities recently […]
Bundoran’s Waterworld set to splash again
A RECRUITMENT drive is underway at Waterworld in Bundoran following the announcement that the popular indoor water park is set to reopen in April. Waterworld has been closed for two years due to Covid-19 but in a post on their Facebook, the facility announced they will be reopening on Saturday April 9. The reopening comes […]