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.…
Brian Dorrian names his Donegal Oscar Traynor Cup squad
Donegal League boss Brian Dorrian has named three St Catherine’s player and one from Donegal Town in his 21-man squad for their Oscar Traynor Cup campaign. Michael Mullen, Connor Doherty and Ryan Farrell from the Killybegs club will be joined by Daniel McHugh from Donegal, for their game against the…
Hundreds turn out for Donegal Town cinema meeting
Hundreds of people turned out for a ‘Save Our Cinema’ public meeting in Donegal Town last night. The meeitng in the Abbey Hotel was called following the refusal of planning permission for a new cinema in the town. Our reporter Barry Whyte was there, and he has this report……
Votes in Donegal Town mayoral election will be counted tonight
The new mayor of Donegal Town will be known tonight. But the actual inauguration ceremony will not take place until a later date. Voting for mayor of Donegal Town is continuing today at the John Bosco Centre until 7pm. There are two candidates in the race, Vincent Callaghan and Pauric…
It’s mayoral election day in Donegal Town
Today is election day in Donegal Town. Starting at 10 o’clock this morning, people can cast their votes for a new Mayor of Donegal. There are two candidates in the race, Vincent Callaghan, husband of outgoing mayor Patricia Callaghan, and Padraig Kennedy. The position is an honorary one but the…