GET YOUR MOTHERS DAY PRESENTS NOW AT UNIQUE GIFTS LETTERKENNY
Looking for that perfect gift for Mothers Day on March 10th? Well look no further than Unique Gifts in the Courtyard Shopping Centre, Letterkenny. Unique Gifts have a wide selection of gift ideas for...
View ArticleTOO EXPENSIVE TO GET THAT PERFECT WEDDING DRESS? WHY NOT MAKE IT YOURSELF?
Did you ever think that you could make a wedding dress entirely from junk? Well you can because Niamh Sweeney a transition year student at Rosses community school has done just that. Niamh has made an...
View ArticleREVEALED: GRETA LILLY BURGLARY SUSPECT CHARGED WITH SECOND THEFT OFFENCE
THE man charged with the aggravated burglary of 96-year-old Buncrana pensioner Greta Lilly has been charged with committing a second theft offence. Thomas Alcock, 48, has been remanded in custody...
View ArticleCHEEP, CHEEP! PEOPLE FLOCKING TO DONEGAL’S FIRST CHICKEN-COOP COURSE!
Chicken expert Oisin Moran and teacher Ronan O Murchu with a completed chicken coop! People are flocking to Ireland’s first chicken-coop making class. The class at the Downstrand Family Resource Centre...
View ArticleUP TO €300,000 NEEDED TO REPAIR GLENSWILLY CHURCH
The bill to renovate Glenswilly Parish church could cost up to €300,000. Urgent repairs are needed at St Columba’s Church with the roof among a number of areas which need to be addressed. More than 150...
View ArticleHEARTACHE AS CONVOY LOSES COMPANY AND TEN JOBS AFTER 60 YEARS IN BUSINESS
TEN people have lost their jobs at wholesale food business in Convoy. BWG Foods says it’s closing its business formerly known as Morris Brothers. It says 17 of the 27 staff are being transferred to its...
View ArticleHARPS FACE MAYO IN FIRST COMPETITIVE GAME OF SEASON
The pre-season preparations are out of the way, and now the serious business can begin for Peter Hutton and his Finn Harps side. The 2013 season gets underway in Castlebar on Sunday as Harps kick-off...
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 ArticleANGER AS ANTI-AUSTERITY CAMPAIGNERS PLAN PROTEST AT ‘BIGGEST ADVERT FOR...
BUSINESS and political leaders have expressed their ‘dismay’ at plans by anti-austerity campaigners to picket ‘the greatest free advert Donegal has ever had.’ Leading politicians from England,...
View ArticleALL SUPPORTERS INVITED TO FINN HARPS AGM THIS SUNDAY
The Annual General Meeting of Finn Harps will be taking place this Sunday 3rd March in Jacksons Hotel, Ballybofey at 8pm. The 2012 audited accounts will be presented to shareholders and questions will...
View ArticleNO RYDER CUP ROLE FOR DONEGAL MANAGER JIM MCGUINNESS – MCGINLEY
Paul McGinley says Jim McGuinness will have no official involvement in Europe’s 2014 Ryder Cup bid. There was speculation that the Donegal manager could be drafted into McGinley’s backroom team for the...
View ArticleDONEGAL STUDENTS SEE THE LIGHT WITH NEW PHONE CHARGER
A shopping trip which ended in a flat mobile phone battery has led two teenage entrepreneurs to invent a unique product that is selling like hotcakes. Friends Jordan McIlwaine, 16, and Mark Borland,...
View ArticleDONEGAL STAR DURCAN SET TO JOIN THE CENTURY CLUB
Donegal’s All Ireland winning goalkeeper and All star Paul Durcan is set to make his 100th appearance for Donegal this weekend. Durcan will take his place in goals for Sunday’s National league...
View ArticleDONEGAL’S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY CINEMA COMES TO ANNAGRY
The west Donegal community project ‘Alternative Community Cinema’ will hold its first film night of 2013 at the beginning of March. The date for the event is Saturday 2nd March and it will be held in...
View ArticleSEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE 2013 DO DHÚN NA NGALL Á SHEOLADH I LEABHARLANN GHAOTH...
Donegal’s Seachtain na Gaeilge will be launched in Gaoth Dobhair next Monday – with a huge programme of events. And is now the norm, the celebration of our native language will last well over a week....
View ArticleHARTE WELCOMES EU INITIATIVE TO TACKLE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
Labour Senator Jimmy Harte, today welcomed news that EU agreement has been reached on the introduction of a Youth Guarantee. It is hoped that when it is rolled across all EU Member States, it could...
View ArticleWE WERE EXCLUDED FROM CROKE PARK II TALKS, SAYS GARDA UNION BOSS
THE Garda Representative Association has hit out at trade unions and the Government over how they have been portrayed during recent talks on efficiencies. “The Garda Representative Association has made...
View ArticleÚDARÁS RELEASES €1.56M IN FUNDING TO GROUPS AND BUSINESSES
At an Údarás na Gaeltachta Board meeting in Na Forbacha today a number of projects, leading to the creation of 110 new jobs and a total investment of circa €5 million when up and running, were...
View ArticleNEW MOBILE GARDA UNITS ARE FARCICAL, SAYS DONEGAL TD
Responding to the news that five garda vans are to be deployed to replace the service to communities from 143 garda stations closed over the last year, Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson, Pádraig Mac...
View ArticleWE WILL ABOLISH PROPERTY TAX, INSISTS TD DOHERTY
Sinn Féin finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty TD, has reiterated Sinn Fein’s commitment to repeal the Family Home Tax. “Later this week and over the coming week or two every eligible and some...
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