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Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: Bringing the cup back to the bog

Running into the legendary Brendan Bradley in Derry last week, and listening to our own Diarmaid Doherty commentating on Highland Radio on Saturday evening, brought back many happy memories of Finn Harps in their glory days. I still remember April ...

02 Oct 2022 at 21:00

Donegal Life

IT OCCURS TO ME: Recalling the day Dev and his Dodge limo came to Donegal

My favourite definition of democracy comes from a yarn that current political parties should pay heed to. Dev was very worried in the late 1950's that Fine Gael was making inroads in Donegal so he decided to visit us 'undercover' during the 1957 ...

23 Sept 2022 at 16:41

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: How a Donegal man broke the news of the queen's engagement

As I was saying before... On 15 August 1923, Éamon de Valera appeared at a Sinn Féin election rally at the O'Connell monument in Ennis, County Clare. The event, having been advertised in the local press, saw many thousands attend. After the ...

16 Sept 2022 at 13:55

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: Remembering the Bruckless drownings

Saint Aodh MacBricne's monastery on Sliabh Liag dates from the sixth century and was famous for his ability to cure headaches. On the mountaintop are the remains of his church, holy well and cairns of stones connected with his station. ...

13 Nov 2022 at 20:51

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: Prince Harry - Is there a Donegal connection?

Cost of living crisis, health service imploding, strikes everywhere, but what is the English media obsessed with? Oh, spare me! I was tempted to ignore it myself but the following paragraph from Prince Harry’s book convinced me that ...

15 Jan 2023 at 15:44

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: Garda centenary celebrations

A recent event in the Mount Errigal in Letterkenny saw the awarding of An Garda Síochána centenary medals to serving and retired members, as well as family representatives of deceased members. My mother attended and received one on ...

25 Nov 2022 at 18:48

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: Being there for the people

When Father John Joe Duffy was asked by RTÉ's Miriam O’Callaghan how he could even begin to console people in the face of such a tragedy as Creeslough, he simply said: “You just have to be there for people.” Those words came back ...

24 Dec 2022 at 11:53

Donegal Life

A Christmas story . . . . Message in a bottle, all the way from Donegal

Donegal Democrat columnist Frank Galligan met Jimmy from Senegal the last time he was in Lanzarote and subsequently ran into singer-songwriter Rory Gallagher in Ardara. "'From Donegal to Senegal' stayed in my head and as I've ...

26 Dec 2022 at 11:28

Local News

It Occurs to Me: Ronnie Delany and an ‘in through’ stew

Sean Chon Johnny had a send-off to remember last Friday. The first eight rows on the right hand side in Carrick chapel were mostly fiddle players, as well as the legendary Steve Cooney and accordionist Dermot Byrne, among ...

05 May 2023 at 08:48

Home

It Occurs to Me: Bringing them all back home

When I spoke with Colin Bell last week, the Newry man was looking forward to the game with Donegal in Páirc Esler. He was the happier of the two of us on Sunday evening! I first met him along with his wife Eithne at the ...

27 Apr 2023 at 11:39

Local News

It Occurs to Me: Full steam ahead! Well, not in Donegal

Recently, I read with interest Michael McHugh’s feature showing a beautiful painting of the old Bundoran Rail Express and Chris McNulty’s piece about mechanical issues on an Express Bus from Letterkenny, which twice ...

14 Mar 2023 at 08:40

Local News

It Occurs to Me: The law and order party

In 2022, more than 280 members of An Garda Siochana suffered injuries in the line of duty - head injuries, open wounds, dislocations and bites, just some of what was reported. The most common injuries were bites, ...

29 Jul 2023 at 13:23

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