Donegal Town basketballers preparing for national final
Donegal Town BC U16 Girls head off to represent the Region in the ALL IRELAND CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS next weekend. They qualify for this the end of season highlight by winning the Counties Donegal/ Sligo Regional League as well as adding the Supercup Title to their seasons haul. The Donegal Girls…
‘Little progress’ made on new building for Cleary Centre
A Donegal TD says ‘little progress’ has been made in providing a new building for the Cleary Centre, which supports those with intellectual disabilities in Donegal Town. Now, a meeting is to take place next month between the minister with respoonsibility for those with disabilities, Finian McGrath, a delegation from…
Man due in court in Donegal in connection with Jimmy Loughlin death
Gardaí in Sligo investigating the murder of Jimmy Loughlin charged a man last night in connection with the incident. 20 year old Jimmy Loughlin was found dead at a house at Connolly Street in Sligo town on Saturday afternoon. It’s thought he was the victim of a serious assault. A…
Donegal Town’s old fire station site to be used for parking
An old fire station in Donegal is to be demolished to make way for car parking. It’s expected the site of the now unused fire station building in Donegal Town could provide up to 60 more car-parking spaces. The building has been unused since a new fire station was built…
New secondary Gaelscoil for Donegal town ‘a wonderful opportunity’
Donegal Town is to get it’s first Irish speaking secondary school in September. The new school would be based at the Abbey Vocational School, similar to the Aonad Loch Gille school at the Mercy in Sligo. Currently students who want to undertake secondary level education through Irish have to travel…
Donegal Town Basketball Club Notes
Details and pictures available at https://donegaltownbc.weebly.com/game-reports/mixed-weekend-results-for-our-teams u 14 Girls North West League Sligo All Stars 41 D.T.B.C. 30 It was an early start for the u 14 girls on sunday as we had to be in sligo for a 9.30 am tip off. We had 11 players available for the…
Gardai investigate possible link between two Donegal crimes
Gardai are examining a possible link between a burglary and robbery in Co Donegal. A pub in Donegal Town and a bookies in Raphoe have been broken into in the past ten days. Staff at the Boylesports Bookmakers in Raphoe were held at gunpoint last Friday evening just after 9pm.…