These are the provisional homecoming arrangements for newly appointed Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan, who will return to her constituency of Donegal South West this evening, Friday, May 9th.
7pm: Bundoran
8pm: Ballyshannon
9pm: Donegal Town via Ballintra
9.30pm – 10.15pm: Mountcharles, Frosses and Inver
10.30pm: Milltown Bar, Inver

Mary Coughlan today (Wednesday) takes a step closer to the office of Taoiseach.
The Frosses-based Agriculture Minister is to be promoted in the reshuffled Cabinet to be announced this afternoon by new Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
She is to be part of his confidential “inner Cabinet” on which he will rely heavily for guidance in ruling the government.
Leinster […]

A Ballyshannon woman is returning to Africa for a month this summer to help train local teachers how to use second-hand computers which have been donated by an Irish charity.
Deirdre Lee, of Tullyherk, travelled to Zambia for four weeks last year as a volunteer for the charity Camara, which takes in second-hand computers that have […]

Two Donegal teenagers are at the centre of a major constitutional challenge being mounted against a controversial sex law.
A boy accused of having sex with a girl when she was 14 and he was 15 is claiming the two-year-old law is discriminating against him.
He is to argue in the High Court that the 2006 Act […]

The Dark Daughter, a moving account of the life of Finola O’Donnell, mother of Red Hugh and matriarch of one of the most powerful families in Irish political history, will premiere in Belgium on Tuesday, May 7 at the Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe.
The play, sponsorted by Donegal County Council Cultural and Community and […]

A senior Donegal fire officer has praised the outstanding work of firefighters from across the county in minimising the damage caused by this week’s gorse blaze on Townawilly Mountain - believed to be one of the biggest in the area for over 40 years.
Four fire appliances, from stations in Bundoran, Ballyshannon, Donegal Town and Stranorlar, […]

A decision is expected shortly on whether Bundoran and Ballyshannon are to get a new combined fire station - near Finner Camp - or whether each town will get its own separate new fire station.
The situation is particularly sensitive in Bundoran, where many still vividly recall a terrible fire at the old Central Hotel which […]

Donegal Co. Council will host a civic reception for singer/songwriter Phil Coulter in the council chamber in Lifford on May 22nd.
This is the highest honour that a local authority may bestow on an individual.

A feisty gran whose battle for a vital hospital bed for a cancer operation prompted widespread protests is due to return to her Ballyshannnon home later this week.
Josie D’arcy said yesterday that she’s determined to battle her illness although doctors were unable to remove an endangered kidney.
Josie […]

Donegal folk have been urged to support a special star-studded protest concert for the campaign to keep cancer services in Sligo.
Campaign spokesman, Ballyshannon-based Donegal county councillor Barry O’Neill, said: “It’s expected that thousands of people from all over the North West will join leading entertainers at the protest concert. The event will send the strongest […]