WHEN pharmaceutical giant AbbVie recently shone the spotlight on one of its employees Sean McEwen they said that he had one of the toughest jobs in the company. The Letterkenny man is Vice President of Quality Assurance at a company which employs in excess of 48,000 people in more than 70 countries across the globe. […]
New family opts for life on Donegal island
AFTER years of crossing continents and timelines a family of four is settling into life on Arranmore. French man Jean Pierre Trocmé, New Yorker Marie Benedict and their two sons Finn (15) and Taidhg (14) Trocmé moved to the island permanently two weeks ago. Due to Jean Pierre’s job with the French embassy the family […]
Writer turns attention to west Donegal’s ‘Wise Guys’
A US Congressman, world boxing champion and major brothel keeper is just one of the gangsters featured in a new book by Gaoth Dobhair based writer and author John Joe McGinley. The Irish Wise Guys shines the spotlight on 17 of the most notorious Irish American crime bosses for whom death and destruction was a […]
Grammy-nominated Chicago fiddler Liz Carroll for Letterkenny
THE Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, is delighted to end its programme of Spring music with a world class traditional fiddle concert.