BY the time Paddy McMenamin settled in Termon he had already spent a quarter of his young life in jail. Originally from the Turf Lodge area of West Belfast, Paddy left school at 15 and within a couple of weeks had joined the Provisional IRA. As a member of a paramilitary organisation, time in prison […]
Last of the St Conal’s workers retires
Seamus McGinty retired last month after 40 years working on St Conal’s farms and in the grounds there. ‘The computer got me in the end,” he says.
Fiddler launches long-awaited album
“I never really wanted to do an album to be honest, but I’m very excited now.”
Conal Gallen’s new play ‘A bit on the side’ is a real hit
EARLIER this month popular Donegal comedian premiered his first every comedy play ‘A Bit On The Side’ in Ballybofey and the demand for tickets has been so huge that he has added four further Ballybofey dates to the upcoming nation-wide tour.
Madame MacAdam’s Travelling Theatre at Balor Arts Centre
MADAME MacAdam’s Travelling Theatre is the Ballybofey Butt Drama Circle’s Festival Play this season. Set in Donegal in World War II, Thomas Kilroy’s comic melodrama explores what happens when a travelling group of English actors get stranded in an Irish town.