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 […]

The Donegal Methodist Church will be celebrating 150 years of worship in the Methodist Church in Waterloo Place Donegal Town on Sunday, April 20.
Two special services will be given, one at 11am and the other at 6pm at which the President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Rev Roy Cooper, will be a guest speaker […]

Strong rumours are circling the local soccer scene that rising Killybegs teenager Jason Noctor could be on his way to Premier division side Sligo Rovers.
Noctor (18) was this week named in Harry McCue’s FAI/FAS development squad that will travel to England to play games against Peterborough Utd and Ipswich town.
Rovers will be well […]

Finn Harps have been given legal clearance to embark on the road to European glory in their own new ground.
The club, which returned to the League of Ireland Premiership this season, featured in a three-minute hearing at Donegal Circuit Court.
Judge John O’Hagan, who revealed he was a Drogheda United fan, was asked to formally approve […]

Next Wednesday, March 26th , Gay Byrne, Chairman of the Road Safety Authority, will attend a ceremony at NUI Galway to honour Donna Ferguson, the young Belleek student journalist who tragically lost her life on the roads in December 2006.
Mr Byrne will deliver the Inaugural Address for the presentation of the Donna Ferguson Memorial […]

The family of a young Ballyshannon man held in a U.S. jail has appealed to the American authorities not to keep him behind bars any longer.
Soldier’s son Brian Gethins was arrested 10 days ago while on his way by bus to visit his Irish-American girlfriend Shannon Reynolds.
The 22-year-old is being held as an illegal immigrant […]

A former fishing pier on the Loughros Point road, Ardara, has been restored following weeks of work. Known locally as St. John’s Pier, it was built in around 1903 to accommodate boats used to fish the Loughros Mor Bay for herring.
Before the pier was built the area housed a fish curing plant. Now it […]

Heartless thieves broke into and wrecked a Co. Donegal pub owned by missing toddler Madeleine McCann’s grieving grandmother Eileen McCann.
The thugs smashed their way into the bar in the early hours of St Patrick’s Day – just hours after Eileen paid a farewell visit before returning to the UK after a brief family visit to […]