By Grace McMonagle reporter DANIEL O’Donnell is currently celebrating his 50th birthday in an undisclosed location with his wife Majella. Mrs. O’Donnell revealed that she was whisking her husband away to the secret location on a special episode of ‘The Late Late Show’ on Friday night, which was filmed to mark the crooner’s milestone birthday. [...]

By Lauren Harte editor A 21-year-old Romanian man appeared in court last week to face charges of stealing a total of €1,470 from two branches of AIB in South Donegal this summer when he went to get currency changed. Judge Kevin Kilrane heard that on June 15, Rindus Horobas entered AIB in Donegal Town with [...]

By Grace McMonagle reporter A HARD-working community organisation from Donegal has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Ulster Bank Sir George Quigley Award. Inver Community Project – a local community action group in Inver – were named co-winners at a ceremony held at Ulster Bank in Dublin along with the Klawitter Theatre Group, from Bray, Co. [...]

By Lauren Harte editor BALLYSHANNON District Court learned last Friday of the process of baking ‘cannabis cakes’ from the solicitor of a man who admitted trying to sell them at this year’s Rory Gallagher Festival. Judge Kevin Kilrane was told that gardaí became suspicious when they observed a van at Portnason, Ballyshannon on June 5 [...]

THE staff and customers of Kavanagh’s SuperValu in Donegal have raised a spectacular €40,100 to help the Donegal Hospice maintain their “patient-centred” vision for care. The money was raised in two ways. Staff of the four Kavanagh’s SuperValu stores in Donegal – Donegal Town, Dungloe, Ballybofey and Buncrana – organised a series of fundraising events [...]

THE jury at an inquest into the death of a Dublin teenager in Bundoran this summer returned a verdict of death by misadventure last week. Joseph Olwill from Santry, Dublin fell from the top of the three-storey Tyrconnell Apartments building on Station Road at about 2.30am on the morning of August 25. The 17-year-old was [...]