According to Eurostat’s just published ‘Demography of Europe 2024’, Ireland recorded a 33 per cent increase in population between 1 January, 2003 and 1 January, 2023, the 3rd highest rise in the EU after Luxembourg (47 per cent) and Malta (36 per cent). Over the same period, the population of the EU27 rose by 4 […]
Promoting sustainability at Fanad’s iconic lighthouse
By Róise Collins LAST WEEK the Donegal News spoke with Breac House, a hotel in Horn Head spearheading sustainable tourism, this week we travelled further north along the rugged Wild Atlantic Way to Fanad Lighthouse, which is perched on the edge of the world. In 2016 under a new tourism initiative Fanad Lighthouse was opened […]
Sowing the seeds of our foodie future at ATU
By Róise Collins LAST week the Donegal News spoke with Dr Elizabeth McKenzie, a lecturer in Culinary Arts at Atlantic Technological University’s (ATU) Killybegs campus about Donegal’s sprawling food scene. This week we paid a visit to her classroom and spoke with her students, aspiring professional chefs, who are the future of the county’s cuisine. […]
Harkin MEP facilitates meeting for Donegal windfarm campaigners
A NUMBER of groups representing wind farm campaigners in Donegal and the Midlands held a lengthy and positive meeting with senior officials at the Irish Desk in the Environment Directorate of the European Commission, yesterday, November 4.