An 18-year-old Leaving Cert student accused at Glenties of killing a Garda is back in court tomorrow, Thursday.
Jamie McGrenaghan was charged last Friday with the manslaughter of a Garda Robbie McCallion who died from injuries received when dealing with a stolen car investigation.
McGrenaghan was charged at Glenties District [...]

An Army private jailed this week for sex offences against a 13-year-old girl was not a member of a child-sex ring.
Garda Liam Feeney, who led the investigation that brought about the imprisonment of 34-year Kenneth McDonald, was asked by defence counsel Cormac O’Dulachain, SC, if there was a sex-ring.
Gda Feeney told Donegal Circuit Court that [...]

Keith Duggan from Ballyshannon has been acclaimed Sports Journalist of the Year in the national Media Awards which were presented at a glittering function in Trinity College, Dublin.
Keith, son of Carl and Mary Duggan, Cornhill, Ballyshannon, beat off stiff competition to clinch the award for his story in the Irish Times of how the deaths [...]

Donegal will lock horns with Carlow on Saturday evening eager to make amends for their devastating defeat to Antrim over a fortnight ago in the first round of the Ulster Championship.
Due to injury Donegal boss John Joe Doherty will be forced to make a number of personnel changes, with midfield likely to see a [...]

John Kelly, representing St. Margaret’s Golf Club in Dublin, won a hugely enjoyable Narin & Portnoo Pro-Am (sponsored by The Harcourt Hotel) on a sun-kissed golf course at the weekend.
The Dubliner shot a magnificent six under par second round of 67 to overtake all of the first-day leaders and stake his honoured place in [...]

Ballyshannon lad Danny Keohane is this week looking forward to Sligo Rover’s European adventure, after they were paired with Albanian side Vllaznia in the first qualifying round to be played July 2nd.
For Sligo, who have qualified for Europe for the first time in 13 years, a glamour tie with Rapid Vienna is the prize awaiting [...]

Donegal GAA minor boss Martin Regan is appealing for a large Tir Chonaill turnout this Saturday evening in Clones, when his young guns do battle with Down in the Ulster semi-final.
Following Donegal’s hard fought victory over Antrim in Ballybofey, when a torrential second half downpour saw tactics take a backseat; Regan knows that [...]

Residents of Mountcharles - nicknamed Monte Carlo after the French name of the tiny Mediterranean principality - held their own special rally last Friday.
They drove 100 vehicles along the Killybegs Road at Turris hill at almost zero km/h, unlike the high speeds reached in the world-famous annual rally of its French namesake. Traffic ground to [...]

Beauty, one of the smallest horses in the world, gave birth to her first child and nobody including owner Gerry Hourihane even knew she was pregnant.
The 29-inch tall mini Shetland Pony now has a five day old son less than half her size.
The piebald newcomer, a male dubbed Mini Me, is just a foot tall [...]

Devastated villagers prayed in two churches for one of their oldest and one of their youngest who died following separate road accidents an hour apart.
Seven-years-old soccer-mad Dylan Minnock and pensioner Jimmy Strain(80) - both from Convoy - were fatally injured in tragic accidents on Friday.
Congregations at the village’s two main churches, the Catholic St [...]