Pramerica, the largest employer in Donegal, saw just 1 to 2 per cent of their employees working at their Letterkenny campus during the Covid-19 lockdown. With more than 1,650 employees in all working for Pramerica, that meant many hundreds of their staff worked from home these last months, most of them across Donegal. Advertisement “The […]
Man arrested after alleged stabbing incident
The area in Oldtown of the alleged stabbing incident remains sealed off this morning.
The Lemon Tree to go gets the green light
After 14 weeks of closure, the popular Lemon Tree Restaurant, Letterkenny, is finally reopening this Thursday the 25th June, introducing the new Lemon Tree to Go and Hatch services. The Lemon Tree to Go, a new click and collect service, will allow customers to pre-order online at www.thelemontreerestaurant.com for collection from the pickup hatch located […]
Death announced of James ‘Gouldie’ McGettigan
ONE of Letterkenny and Donegal’s best known GAA figures James McGettigan has died. McGettigan (89) was inducted in the prestigious St Eunan’s GAA Club Hall of Fame in 2003 was known all over the county and further afield as ‘Gouldie’. He won three county senior championship medals with his home town club and four […]
‘Coming to the mountains was a good investment’
THREE months have passed since Roger Holmes and his wife Yesi left their New York home in the dark of night and headed for the country. Roger, who is from Drumardagh on the outskirts of Letterkenny, and his Peruvian born wife drove for twelve hours, stopping only to re-fuel, leaving the city and the coronavirus […]
‘It still doesn’t feel normal in Italy’
ON Monday, Italy entered Phase 3 of its Covid-19 lockdown easing, with almost all activities reopening including playgrounds, theatres and cinemas. Almost 90 per cent of bars and restaurants are already open, but 60 per cent of hotels remain closed. Letterkenny woman Siobhán Hegarty works as a wedding photographer throughout Umbria and the beautiful central […]
“So lucky no one died”
LETTERKENNY businessman John Watson said they are very lucky no one was killed in the major fire that burned down his premises and caused substantial damage to a HSE storage unit on Monday evening. It was only by chance Mr Watson was not in the building when the devastating blaze broke out. Several staff members […]
Corner of Letterkenny had baby boom during lockdown
TROPICAL World in Letterkenny has enjoyed a baby boom over the past two months. While its doors have remained closed to visitors due to Covid-19 the new arrivals include a pair of rare Bali Straling chicks, a baby Aracari, the first bred in Ireland, together with twin cotton top tamarins and twin baby pygmy marmoset […]
Covid-19 testing down to 14 daily at Letterkenny centre
FOURTEEN tests, on average, a day were provided in the Letterkenny Covid-19 testing centre in the first nine days of this month, new figures reveal. ST Eunan’s GAA club pitches have been used by the HSE as a drive-through Covid-19 testing centre since March 27. The test centre in Letterkenny has completed 2,478 tests, and […]
Letterkenny Tidy Towns launches website
LETTERKENNY Tidy Towns is publicly launching its new website today, Thursday, and a new competition to coincide with the start of National Spring Clean which resumes this week. The competition called – ‘Keep it Local. Keep it Beautiful’ encourages people to pick up a few items of litter while out enjoying their normal daily […]