How well do you really know Inishowen? Big Barrtalk New Year’s Quiz

1. Which animal had to be rescued after getting stuck on top of Greencastle’s ancient Northburgh Castle in June 2024?

2. Which North Inishowen townland shares its name with a large town in County Antrim?

3. Name the parish priest of Buncrana, comfortably the youngest serving priest in Inishowen at the age of 55?

4. Where in Inishowen might you enjoy a play at the Cairn Theatre, run by an award-winning local singer-songwriter?

5. The R240 regional road connects which two local places about ten miles apart?

6. Inishowen’s most northerly pub is Farren’s Bar at Malin Head but can you name our most southerly pub, in Newtown?

7. Music legend Dinny McLaughlin died aged 89 in December 2024, but what was his family nickname?

8. What €6m infrastructure project was officially opened in Inishowen in April 2024 by then Transport Minister Jack Chambers?

9. Name the two 100% Redress candidates elected as County Councillors for Inishowen last year?

10. Paul Brogan is the chairperson of which long-running and successful Inishowen institution?

11. Former Carn Community School pupil Paul Lynch sensationally won the 2023 Booker Prize, but can you name his successful novel?

12. Who was the RTE North-West reporter, a fixture on our TV screens for decades, who announced her retirement in April 2024?

13. He gives his name to an annual award here, but what powerful political position was held by Democratic powerhouse Tip O’Neill in the US from 1977 until 1987?

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14. Name the long-serving PP in Carn, originally a native of the Moville area, who celebrated 50 years in the priesthood in 2023?

15. Where in Inishowen would you find Sinead’s Gift Shop and the Market House coffee shop?

16. Who was the celebrated British World War II hero who came from Moville, where an iconic terrace is named for him?

17. Which Inishowen secondary school, officially opened in 1974, celebrated its golden anniversary last year?

18. Name the Inishowen place where the Colts often play across the road from an Orchard?

19. Here’s a bit of a cryptic one for you: can you name the local restaurant, which is everywhere, all the time?

20. Name the Donegal GAA star, who serves as a garda in the Inishowen area?

Quiz Answers: 1. Goat; 2. Ballymena [Glengad]; 3. Fr Francis Bradley; 4. Greencastle; 5. Carn and Quigley’s Point; 6. Coyle’s; 7. The White Harra [Harrow]; 8. Quigley’s Point-Muff Greenway; 9. Ali Farren and Joy Beard; 10. Inishowen Credit Union; 11. Prophet Song; 12. Eileen Magnier; 13. Speaker of the House; 14. Fr Con McLaughlin; 15. Clonmany; 16. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery; 17. Carndonagh Community School; 18. Gleneely; 19. Ubiquitous [Buncrana]; 20. Shaun Patton.