It was a journey to remember. 1,900 kilometres, four tanks of petrol, a puncture, three boxes of Galtee cheese, six fills of a flask of hot water and a lot of tea bags! Gary Mangan’s CD stuck in the CD player in the otherwise ultra reliable wee Toyota called Betsy and an overwhelming amount of […]
VIDEO: Brian and Betsy’s homecoming
Donegal News photographer Brian McDaid completed his fundraising Drive of Ireland on Monday evening – arriving back to the Donegal Hospice in Letterkenny. Staff members from the Hospice, family and friends gathered to welcome the Letterkenny man back home. He’d set out from the Hospice on his drive around Ireland last Tuesday morning. His Idonate […]
Brian’s ‘Drive of Ireland’ nearing a successful end
By Diarmaid Doherty Six days into his charity Drive of Ireland, Brian McDaid hit the worst of the week’s weather yesterday afternoon with heavy fog causing dangerous driving conditions along the East coast. Brian was heading northwards on the M1 motorway when dense pockets of fog descended on the route. Advertisement “It was scary enough […]
Brian and Betsy reach Belmullet
By Diarmaid Doherty DONEGAL News photographer Brian McDaid is hoping to hit Killarney in Co. Kerry later today as he continues on his Drive of Ireland fundraiser for Donegal Hospice. The Letterkenny man, who hit the road on his charity run on Tuesday morning, has been clocking up the miles since in his trusty Toyota Passo […]
Brian hits the road on Drive of Ireland fundraiser
By Diarmaid Doherty AFTER weeks of preparation, plotting and planning, Brian McDaid and his trusty ‘Betsy’ have hit the road. This morning the Letterkenny man left his home at Old Glencar Road to start off on a journey that, as he says himself, will be as much about enjoying the moment, as remembering times past. […]
Brian and ‘Betsy’ all set for a very special journey
By Diarmaid Doherty THERE’S so much more to Brian McDaid’s fundraising ‘Drive of Ireland’ than the journey itself. It’s a chance to mark a significant birthday milestone – he turns 60 on the day he plans to finish his round Ireland trip on January 11. Advertisement Perhaps more importantly, he’ll celebrate the memory of his […]