By Lauren Harte and Claudia Kennedy
reporters
Dog owners in the north west are being urged to be vigilant following reports that dogs are being stolen in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim for sale on the black market in the UK.
Earlier this month, two full bred boxer dogs, Paddy and Arthur were stolen in Cliffoney, Co. Sligo. The [...]

By Lauren Harte
reporter
An additional €3m in revenue is expected to be generated in the North West following this weekend’s concerts at Lissadell House with south Donegal set to reap much of the benefits.
Preparations are in full swing at the historic Sligo estate ahead of the highly anticipated weekend concerts by Westlife and the legendary
Leonard [...]

By Lauren Harte
reporter
After three decades at the helm of his long established family business, John Joe McBrearty turned the keys in the lock for the last time at the
weekend.
The well known Kilcar man has been running McBrearty’s Spar on the village’s Main Street since taking over from his late parents, Jimmy and Gracie nearly [...]

By Lauren Harte
reporter
The newly ordained Bishop of Clogher has said the Catholic Church has been brought to its knees following recent revelations of clerical child sex abuse.
Speaking at his Ordination Ceremony, Bishop Liam MacDaid said society had forced the Irish Church to look into the mirror and “what we saw were weakness and failure, [...]

By Claudia Kennedy
reporter
Donegal Co. Council is being asked to formulate a plan to identify funding which could be available to progress the development of a car park in Ballyshannon.
Ballyshannon based Fine Gael Cllr Barry O’Neill made the call at a meeting of Donegal Co. Council in Lifford on Monday.
Cllr O’Neill told the Donegal Post [...]

By Frank Craig
sports editor
There will be a familiar banter when Michael Murphy eventually returns to the senior inter county set-up with Donegal.
Last May Tir Chonaill’s young guns heartbreakingly fell at the final hurdle in the U21 All Ireland final against Dublin. For Murphy and a number of his team mates the chance for redemption [...]

By Frank Craig
sports editor
New Donegal boss Jim McGuinness doesn’t want any dealings with players not willing to give the maximum in realising the ambitious blueprint he presented at Monday night’s county board meeting.
The Glenties man held a two hour meeting with the county executive on Friday last, and it was there that he sought [...]

By Lauren Harte
reporter
Two special young people will be remembered by a group of six local men as they get on their bikes tomorrow (Thursday) to cycle the length of Ireland for charity.
Those taking part hail from Ballintra and Ballyshannon and will be embarking on the 650 kilometre run after months of serious training and recent [...]

By Lauren Harte
reporter
Bus Eireann has been forced to re-instate a connection route until the end of next month, despite low passenger numbers, following local opposition to planned cutbacks.
The decision follows concerns raised after the Dublin evening service to South and West Donegal was withdrawn two weeks ago, leaving those travelling on to Glencolmcille and Dungloe [...]

By Lauren Harte
reporter
There was good news on the local tourism front this week following news that almost €2m in funding has been approved to develop Sliabh Liag into one of the region’s top tourist attractions.
The Fáilte Ireland approved grant of €1,998,500 will be used to fund essential road access improvement, walking routes, transport at [...]