Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to save the Donegal Donkey Sanctuary which was founded in 2010 in Castledooey, Raphoe.
It is a family-run sanctuary in the peaceful and tranquil countryside. The sanctuary began as a result of Sandra and Danny Curran taking in a donkey who had been found tied to a scrapped car in bog land and left to die.
The family were so moved by this poor animal's predicament that they brought him to their farm to live with the three donkeys they already owned. Over the course of the next year they began to hear of more and more neglected and abandoned donkeys in their locality. As numbers steadily grew the Curran’s realised there was a dire need for sanctuary for these gentle creatures and Donegal Donkey Sanctuary was born.
Due to the pandemic, the sanctuary had to close its doors to the public. Sanctuary owner Sandra uses the GoFundMe page to write: “Our precious residents face a very uncertain future as we prepare to open our doors to the public once again following two years without visitors. While our welfare work has continued behind the scenes the outfall of the pandemic lockdowns and the current global financial situation are making it increasingly difficult for us to continue to provide the help that is needed.
"Once again we find ourselves at a crossroads, wondering how we can continue as we face higher and higher veterinary, feed and farrier bills. Spiralling inflation is escalating the running costs of our welfare work to an all-time high and unfortunately these costs show no sign of stabilising.”
If you would like to kindly donate to the sanctuary, please click here
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
