West Donegal company is creating 30 new jobs


THERE is an air of optimism around Páirc Ghno Gaoth Dobhair with job creation figures continuing to rise. As highlighted in Údarás na Gaeltachta’s Annual Report for 2021, 286 new jobs were created in the Donegal Gaeltacht over the past 12 months, signifying the largest number of jobs created in a single year in the […]

Sewage concerns for Gweedore hotel developers


DONEGAL County Council has sought further information on a proposal to redevelop the former Seaview Hotel in Gweedore. The Bunbeg Revitalisation project, being developed by Dublin-based property developers Vesada Private, will see a €20 million investment to include the former Seaview and Ostan Ghaoth Dobhair Hotels. Phase 1 of the project will see the construction […]

Bumper weekend ahead in Gweedore for Fómhair Festival


PICTURE This kicked off the Fómhair Festival in spectacular fashion but organiser’s attention has quickly turned to another jam packed weekend kicking off tomorrow night.  Over the bank holiday weekend, thousands of people flocked to Gweedore for Bingo Loco and two sold out Picture This gigs at the county’s newest festival venue The Big Top […]

Top new talent at ‘Freaknight’


SOME of Ireland’s most popular up and coming artists will kick off the Halloween celebrations in Gweedore as they take to the stage for ‘FreakNight.’ As part of Fomhair Festival in Gweedore, Irish artists Kneecap, Welshy, John Gibbons and Big P will all perform live at ‘Freaknight’ on October 30 at the Big Top Donegal. […]

‘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 […]

Company hoping to increase workforce by fifty per cent


A WEST Donegal company manufacturing components for some of the world’s most recognised car brands is looking to grow its workforce by fifty per cent. Irish Pressings Ltd. – based in the Údarás na Gaeltachta Industrial Estate in Gweedore – specialise in the design and manufacture of tooling and metal pressed components for a range […]

Covid-19 cases rise in West Donegal over holiday period


MORE THAN one hundred people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the Glenties Local Electoral Area (LEA) in the past fourteen days which is the highest level of infection recorded in the area since the start of the pandemic. This record-level surge in west Donegal can be largely attributed to an intensified period of social […]

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 […]