New Zealand charity continues to support good causes


A Letterkenny youth group and a cathedral restoration project are among the latest causes to receive large donations from New Zealand. Details of the financial gifts awarded by the Hugo Charitable Trust, a charity set up by Raphoe farmer Hugh Green, are contained in the organisation’s latest annual report. Good causes ranging from individual efforts […]


Sadness at the death of Joe ‘Dodo’ Winston


  THE funeral will take place in St Eunan’s Cathedral  at 11am on Thursday morning of Joe ‘Dodo’ Winston. A native of the Cathedral town, Mr Winston (77) passed away following a short illness. His death on Monday evening was learned of with great sadness in Letterkenny and throughout Donegal. Advertisement A retired ESB employee, […]


‘Old style policing’ makes welcome return during crisis


EUNAN Walsh, as the Sergeant in Charge of Letterkenny Garda Station, has been working on the front line since day one of the pandemic. What he has witnessed most during that time is the growth of community spirit and the appreciation of the public for a Garda’s work. When the pandemic hit last March, Sgt […]


New Community Testing Centre opens on Saturday


THE new Community Testing Centre for Donegal will become operational on Saturday. The new Community Testing Centre is located on the St Conal’s Hospital Campus site, Letterkenny in the upper car park area. Primary Care General Manager for Donegal, Edel Quinn, said the centre will ensure that testing is delivered to the people of Donegal […]


Dramatic increase in Covid-19 testing in Letterkenny


THE number of Covid-19 tests carried out in Donegal have more than doubled in recent weeks, new figures reveal. It comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Donegal continues to rise. There has been thirty cases so far in August which is already more than the combined totals for June (12) and […]


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 […]