Sligo Rovers defender Seamie Coleman looks set to retain his position in Ireland’s U21 rearguard ahead of their European Championship double header against Bulgaria and Portugal at the beginning of September.
The Former St Catherine’s star impressed during the full 90 minutes for the Republic of Ireland in last week’s 1-1 friendly draw with Austria in [...]
The death has taken place at his home after a brave battle against illness of Army sergeant Alex Warnock of Doran Close, Bundoran. He was 55. He served with the 28th Battalion in Finner Camp since April 1976.
Sgt Warnock was treasurer of the Bundoran branch of the Friends of St Luke’s Hospital, former chairman of [...]
A convicted sex offender who returned to Donegal at the weekend after fleeing the town almost two years ago has gone back to the UK, according to friends in the town.
They said that Alexander Dalgleish, 36, returned to Britain on Monday, hours after he was charged with criminal damage to a newsman’s camera.
The friends, who [...]
A county councillor has hit out at the growing media frenzy in Kilcar when Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick visit their holiday home there.
Fianna Fail councillor Brendan Byrne claimed photographers are arriving in the area in greater numbers during the stars’ annual family holidays.
At one stage last [...]
€20,000 stolen from Gweedore GAA club was left for three days in a strongbox in the clubhouse.
Hooded thieves snatched the loot on Sunday, probably while many people from the area were still on their way home from Letterkenny after their team’s county championship quarter-final victory over Fanad Gaels.
The robbery wasn’t discovered until Monday morning. The [...]
Two brothers rowing a 19-ft boat from Donegal to Limerick arrived at voyage’s end last Saturday a full week ahead of schedule.
Mike(43) and Martin(33) O’Boyle, from Mountcharles, set off last Sunday fortnight on 371 arduous kilometres through much of the length of Ireland from the Erne Estuary at Ballyshannon to Limerick via the Shannon-Erne waterway [...]
Not as bad since the sixties – Tourism
Leading south Donegal based Tourism operator Sean McEniff says that the tourist season in Donegal has not been as bad since the 1960s.
He said that the figures reflected the overall economic situation in the country and that people had less money to spend.
He also noted that the [...]
A film on the life of Creeslough-born Bernard Lafferty, the gay butler left a fortune in the controversial will of one of the world’s richest women, could become the surprise hit of next month’s Emmy awards.
“Bernard and Doris” depicts the life of the flamboyant, pony-tailed Lafferty who emigrated at the age of 17, penniless and [...]
Surfers and the Army clashed yesterday over access to a beach during a shooting exercise behind nearby sand dunes.
Surfers and leisure walkers claimed they were denied access to the popular Tullan Strand in Bundoran by a soldier on sentry duty near a path leading down the cliff side to the beach.
They said the soldier stepped [...]
A young Ardara actress is making it big in the acting spotlight with some of her performances already receiving critical acclaim.
Ardara native Ruth Mc Gill, 27, is already an accomplished actor and studied Drama at Trinity College, Dublin.
Ruth’s next big appearance will be starring in an episode of ‘The Clinic’ one of the top television [...]
