LEGO recently announced that it is to open its first ever store in Ireland in Grafton Street while premium fashion group Flannels and Swedish fashion giant H&M have signed up at the redeveloped Clerys Store site on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. The leasing of those three anchor stores to high-profile brands, which are due to open […]
Final warning to government TDs to act on mica
“This is a tsunami that can’t be stopped and we will get 100 per cent redress,“ said Cllr Murray.
Local faces from the mica protest in Dublin
Thousands of people from Donegal are protesting in Dublin today, calling on the government to sanction 100 per cent redress, no less.
M50 go-slow ahead of city centre protest
Thousands are expected to attend the march at 12 noon from the Garden of Remembrance.
Friday’s Dublin march is critical, warn MAG
Donegal should be deserted this Friday in order to emphatically drive the message home to government.
‘We won’t leave anyone behind’ say Mica campaigners
MICA campaigners have said they will not leave anyone behind as Government considering a €350,000 cap on the redress scheme. Yesterday, members of the Government’s mica working group presented the Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien with their proposals for the improved redress scheme during a virtual meeting yesterday evening. The report seeks the provision of […]
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 […]
The mica protest in photos
Thousands of Donegal people are protesting in Dublin demanding a 100 per cent mica redress scheme. Here are a selection of photographs from the day so far.
Donegal pilot is just grateful to have a job right now
LIKE many, international pilots have had to adjust to a drastically different work environment over the past 12 months. Letterkenny woman Louise Gilroy is an Airbus A320 captain based in Dublin. She is also involved with ‘Recover Irish Aviation’, a group of aviation professionals who are campaigning to ensure that their industry survives the […]
‘Pushing things along’ despite Brexit and pandemic
A DONEGAL man is responsible for overseeing daily operations at one of Europe’s and UK’s fastest growing recruitment agencies. Falcon Green is a specialist construction and engineering recruitment agency, which employs more than fifty office-based staff with 1,100 operatives working on sites across the UK and Ireland each week. Joseph Sweeney from Gweedore founded the […]