SOCCER – BONAGEE UTD NOTES
The Donegal league team are playing Ballybofey Utd. at 2 p.m. this Sunday in Ballyare in the play off for promotion to Division 1. The senior team were defeated last Sunday at home 2-1 by Drumkeen in...
View ArticleBEAT THE BANKER? DEVELOPERS WIN SIGNIFICANT COURT VICTORY AGAINST ULSTER BANK
TWO brothers whose property empire they built from scratch collapsed during the economic crash have won a second landmark case against the Ulster Bank. Farmer’s sons Michael (pictured) and John Taggart...
View ArticleMINISTER: ‘I WON’T GIVE TAXPAYERS MONEY TO HIGHLAND RADIO AND OCEAN FM’
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Pat Rabbitte has said he won’t bail out struggling radio stations – despite a desperate plea for help. Highland Radio and Ocean FM are part of a group of local commercial radio...
View ArticleATHLETICS: DONEGAL TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS DETAILS RELEASED
The Donegal Juvenile, Senior and Masters Track and Field Championships are fast approaching. Day One will take place in Letterkenny on Tuesday evening 30th April with a start time of 6.30pm. Day Two...
View ArticleFINN HARPS SET UP AMBITIOUS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Finn Harps Football Club is set to launch a Youth Development Plan, which will see the club working with kids in the 10 – 18 year old age bracket. Currently, Harps have three teams – one playing senior...
View ArticleNOT GUILTY: GAA CLEAR DUBLIN PLAYER OF BITING PADDY McBREARTY
THE GAA has ruled that a Dublin player DIDN’T bite Donegal star Paddy McBrearty during their team’s National League clash. The organisation said that Dublin’s Kevin O’Brien has been cleared of the...
View ArticleHEALTH: ADHD ‘MOST NEGLECTED MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS’– MEP
Independent MEP Marian Harkin has said that ADHD is “one of the most neglected of all mental health disorders, and it is high time Irish society took the diagnosis and treatment of it as seriously as...
View ArticleMcHUGH WELCOMES CROSS-BORDER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MOVE
Fine Gael TD for Donegal North East, Joe McHugh, has welcomed the confirmation by the Minister for Health, James Reilly of a single all-island paediatric cardiac surgical service which will be provided...
View ArticleDIRTY BABY BATHS AT LETTERKENNY GENERAL HOSPITAL POSED ‘RISK TO PATIENTS’–...
INSPECTORS have found dirty baths at Letterkenny General Hospital posed a significant health risk to newborn babies. A damning report released today by the Health Information and Quality Authority also...
View ArticleANTI-RACISM NETWORK TARGETS FIANNA FAIL AGAIN OVER McENIFF TRAVELLERS’ REMARKS
The house at the centre of the Ballyshannon controversy was burned down ANTI-racism campaigners have targed this weekend’s Fianna Fáil’s Ard Fheis over comments made by Cllr Sean McEniff about...
View ArticleTHERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE KILMACRENNAN AIR AS SCHOOL BAGS THREE COUNTY...
THERE must be something in the air – or maybe it’s the water – in Kilmacrennan. For the town’s National School has excelled on the sporting front in the past number of weeks when they captured a unique...
View ArticleDUNLEAVY HAS LIFETIME DRIVING BAN REDUCED
A Kerrykeel man who was banned from driving for life by a judge yesterday has had his driving ban reduced. Cathal Dunleavy, 23, was sentenced to five years in prison and banned from holding a driving...
View ArticleCOUNCILLOR SAID HE IS ‘DISMAYED’ BY DAMNING HOSPITAL REPORT
A Letterkenny Town councillor has slammed the findings of a report into cleanliness at Letterkenny General Hospital. Gerry McMonagle Sinn Fein Councillor Gerry McMonagle said he is dismayed by the...
View ArticleCELTIC MEDIA AWARD FOR GAOTH DOBHAIR TV COMPANY’S BRILLIANT JOHN DOHERTY...
Éabhlóid, the Gaoth Dobhair based media company set up by Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh have won the prestigious Bronze Torc for Excellence in the Arts category at the Celtic Media...
View ArticleHARPS SLUMP TO FIRST HOME DEFEAT
Finn Harps slumped to their first home defeat of the season to Waterford Utd. The game looked like it was heading for a scoreless draw until Pauric Quinn headed home a point black bullet on 78th...
View ArticleRICKY SIMMS PROMISES: ‘I WILL BRING USAIN BOLT TO DONEGAL’
RICKY, PATSY McGONAGLE AND THE FASTEST MAN ON EARTH AT THE LONDON OLYMPICS. Donegaldaily.com MILFORD man Ricky Simms has promised that he will bring Usain Bolt to Donegal – but it might be next year....
View ArticleGOVERNMENT IS ‘TICKING TROIKA AUSTERITY BOXES’– DOHERTY
DONEGAL TD Pearse Doherty has said the Troika “is fixated on austerity for austerity’s sake” and the government was simply “ticking the Troika’s austerity boxes”. Speaking after leading a Sinn Fein...
View ArticleBALLYLAST NS TAKES A HUGE JUMP OF COURAGE!
Ballylast National School will be building up their courage over the next few months as they begin preparations to parachute their way into raising funds for their school and also for Donegal Hospice....
View ArticleDDTV – WHY INISHOWEN IS GETTING READY TO ‘BASK’ IN GLORY THIS SUMMER!
Inishowen wildlife officer Emmet Johnston just loves his work – and why wouldn’t he? The well-known co-ordinator of the Basking Shark Project is getting ready for the invasion of the huge creatures...
View ArticleDDTV – THE DONEGAL PEN BOYS GET READY TO SLAY THE DRAGONS
Conor and Ronan McGarvey from Loughanure have already written themselves into the business books of Donegal with their thriving cottage company. The lads started Donegal Pens in a small shed at the...
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