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Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: How the NCT is driving us mad

Despite delays in MOTs in the North, at least one’s car is legally roadworthy from the actual date of the test. Not so with the NCT! I heard Gabija Gataveckaite of the Irish Independent on Ireland AM last week talking about her experience. Her test ...

22 Jan 2023 at 16:28

Features

It Occurs To Me: Maga - make aurals grow again?

Where do I begin? Well, let’s begin with a funny Tweet/X which was doing the rounds recently: Obviously, it’s not the Real Donald Trump, even though the account reads @realDonaldTrump. Mind you, the real Real thing is capable of this nonsense: “It ...

03 Aug 2024 at 10:42

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OPINION: It Occurs To Me - Donegal Cancer Group asking questions

We are not going away!” The defiant words of Betty Holmes of Donegal Action Cancer Care recently in a strongly worded letter to Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Betty added: “We had also over recent months been proactive raising the matter of a ...

26 Nov 2016 at 09:00

Features

It Occurs To Me: What time does the right ‘rise’?

We’re constantly hearing about the ‘rise’ of the far right in Ireland. Funny how most of the ne’er do wells probably don’t ‘rise’ until midday before unwrapping their flags and spewing their vitriol on people who are different. During the very ...

11 May 2024 at 10:56

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me . . . . . And the wee donkey

Remember Adrian Dunbar as Superintendent Ted Hastings in the brilliant Line of Duty? His most popular line was “Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey!” It came to mind recently when I read of the controversy about the banning of live ...

19 Dec 2022 at 15:38

Features

It Occurs To Me: The Donegal Town merry-go-round

On May 23 on the front page of the Donegal Democrat, the headline read “Public Meeting on Donegal Town one-way system concerns”. The article was written by Siobhán McNamara, as a result of which (and social media), the dogs in the ...

15 Jun 2024 at 11:10

Donegal Life

It Occurs to Me: Millie's tribute to Creeslough

Many years ago, I first visited the Mullingar Scribblers to facilitate storytelling and creative writing workshops. On the way home, I called to the Maxol Station for petrol, and when the proprietor heard my accent, he shouted ...

23 Oct 2022 at 09:44

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

Features

It Occurs To Me: The state of the party?

The state of the party? CAPTION: Mary O’Rourke, but she was refreshingly candid I didn’t see much kerfuffle about it up here but Fionnán Sheehan’s feature in the Indo last week should have had tongues wagging in Donegal, if ...

12 Oct 2024 at 12:50

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It Occurs To Me: Funny old games - at Croke Park and in Berlin

The man beside me hadn’t missed an All-Ireland Final in nearly fifty years. He was from Valentia Island, knew his football and was a friend of the legendary Kerry midfielder Mick O’Connell. “Mick is 88” he told me, “and is ...

20 Jul 2024 at 09:18

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It Occurs to Me: Baby Trumps and Baby Powers

As Boris Baby Trump hopped off into the blue sunset, it was appropriate that he blamed kangaroos for his demise. He slammed committee chairman Harriet Harman, charging her with overseeing a 'kangaroo court'. At the time ...

15 Jun 2023 at 11:19

Features

It Occurs To me: Getting shirty with our Ryan!

Cavan people get a hard time about being ‘thrifty’ but as a cousin said to me years ago in McShane’s pub in Cornafean, “I’d give you the shirt off me back…if I had a shirt!” Meanwhile in Tyrone, as you can see from the ...

01 Jun 2024 at 11:00

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