DONEGAL HOTELIER SLAMS THE GATHERING AS ‘HOT AIR’
A leading Donegal hotelier and former councillor has slammed the Government for not backing The Gathering. Businessman Terry McEniff of the Mount Errigal Hotel described the initiative as “a lot of hot...
View ArticleDONEGAL SPORTS STAR AWARD IS A SELL-OUT
The Donegal Sports Star Committee has confirmed this afternoon that tomorrow night’s annual awards ceremony in the Mount Errigal Hotel is now sold out with over 550 guests attending. The Donegal Sports...
View ArticleST JOHNSTON BROTHERS ARE BATTING FOR EACH OTHER AND IRELAND!
Ryan and Jack McBeth Two cricket-mad St Johnston brother have been chosen to play for Ireland. St Johnston Cricket Club brothers Ryan and Jack Macbeth are among a total of 17 youngsters from the North...
View ArticleLOCAL NEWS: LIFFORD/CLONLEIGH NOTES
• APPEAL: We are appealing to the public to donate any unwanted quality items to the centre. We also require the help of volunteers in order to keep the shop up and running. If you have any free time...
View ArticleBITTER FEELINGS AS OATFIELD SWEET FACTORY TO BE DEMOLISHED
The world-famous Oatfield Sweet Factory is to be flattened to the ground. An application is to be made to demolish the Letterkenny plant which closed in May last with the loss of the last remaining 17...
View ArticleDDTV VIDEO: CHAIR OF RELAY FOR LIFE DONEGAL CHAIR ON HOW THIS COUNTY CAN DO...
In the run up to the launch of the 2013 event, Chairperson of Relay for Life in Donegal, Robert O’Connor talks about the world’s most successful first time Relay for Life Event. Held in Donegal...
View ArticleGLENTIES WOMAN LOSES COURT CASE TO STOP WINDFARM
Coming to Glenties: Massive windfarms A GLENTIES WOMAN has failed to stop construction of a windfarm with 29 turbines going ahead – despite getting planning permission for part of it thrown out of...
View ArticleTRAP TO KNOW TODAY IF COLEMAN IS FIT FOR POLAND CLASH
Donegal soccer star Séamus Coleman will know later today if he is likely to be fit enough to join up with the Republic of Ireland squad for Wednesday week’s game against Poland. Seamus Coleman The...
View ArticleWEATHER WARNINGS ISSUED AS STORM WITH 80KMH WINDS SET TO BATTER DONEGAL
FORECASTERS have issued a weather warning as a deep Low Pressure system from the Atlantic comes ashore. Winds reaching 80km/h are on their way to Donegal as a storm lashes the county on Friday. It...
View ArticleTRAWLER OWNER SAYS INVESTIGATION INTO FATHER AND UNCLE’S DEATHS WAS SHAMBLES
A Donegal trawler-owner whose boat sank with the loss of his father and uncle has hit out at authorities over what he claimed was their failure to carry out a proper inquiry into the tragedy. Drowned...
View ArticleFILM IT FRIDAY – WIN MORE FREE TICKETS TO CENTURY CINEMAS!
Donegal’s biggest news website has teamed up with Donegal’s biggest and best cinema. Every week we will be giving away a FREE family pass (one adult and three children or two adults and two children)...
View ArticleDONEGAL SET TO BE BATTLEGROUND AS GOVERNMENT SELLS OFF OUR FORESTS
John Gallagher THE GOVERNMENT has chosen Donegal as its new battleground as it bids to sell of our forests. Coillte confirmed what Donegal Daily reported last month to last night’s RTE1 TV programme...
View ArticleDONEGAL SINN FEIN TDS TO MEET ASSISTANT GARDA COMMISSIONER TODAY
Donegal Sinn Féin TDs Pearse Doherty and Padraig MacLóchlainn will meet with the Assistant Garda Commissioner Kieran Kenny in Ballyshannon today. The meeting will discuss the rise in burglaries and the...
View ArticleRESIDENTS REFUSE TO PLAY BALL WITH RAPHOE TOWN FC OVER NEW GROUND
A decision to grant planning permission to Raphoe Town Football Club for a new clubhouse has been appealed to An Bord Pleanala. Conditional permission was granted by Donegal County Council for the...
View ArticleGARDAI HUNT THREE MEN AS CAR RAMS INTO WELL-KNOWN RESTAURANT
Gardai are looking for three young males who smashed a car into the front of a well-known Letterkenny restaurant this morning. Considerable damage has been caused to the front of the Chilli Shaker...
View ArticleCONFIRMED: TWO CHINESE MEN HELD IN €240,000 DRUGS BUST
TWO CHINESE nationals – one of them in his 70s – are being quizzed by detectives after a €240,000 drugs bust in Co Donegal. The drugs were seized at a farm house in the townland of Grabanagh,...
View ArticleGROUP TO EXAMINE IF HAZARDOUS WASTE WAS DUMPED AT SEA OFF DONEGAL
A group formed to examine the possibility that hazardous waste was dumped off Donegal will hold its first meeting tonight. Aodán ó Gallchóir, founder of the Sea Dump Donegal Campaign, says the group...
View ArticleJUST HOURS LEFT TO DISCOVER DONEGAL’S SPORTS STARS FOR 2012
The hours are now being counted down to the big Donegal Sports Star Awards function in the Mount Errigal Hotel tonight. The Donegal Sports Star Awards Committee who are preparing for their 37th annual...
View ArticleTHINGS HOT UP AT THE OPENING OF THE GREENHOUSE BAR IN ARDARA – PIC SPECIAL
Things certainly got hot under the collar at the opening of the Greenhouse Bar in Ardara this week. There was standing room only as a lively singing sensation marked the opening of the watering hole....
View ArticleLOCAL NEWS: ROSSES CDP NOTES
Karate for Kids /Adults every Monday night in the Rosses CDP building Chapel Rd Dungloe. Kids from 6pm to 7pm €5 per session and adults from 7 pm to 8pm €6 per session English Language classes every...
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