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McHugh's Miscellany: Wagatha Christie meets Eurovision

I don’t know what dragged me into the 'Wagatha Christie' case over the last week or so. I still am asking myself the same question and pondering on whether too many late nights of not being able to sleep, had finally caught up with me. The Wagatha ...

18 May 2022 at 19:55

McHugh's Miscellany: Rebellion, reflection, Recession

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McHugh's Miscellany: Rebellion, reflection and Recession

A significant centenary event took place recently in Finner Camp. It commemorated the handover 100 years ago to the day of the British Army Camp built during the Boer War in the later years of the 19th century, to Irish military forces on ...

27 Feb 2022 at 19:15

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McHugh's Miscellany: After Battle of Pettigo/Belleek British held part of Donegal

These were tense days in the not so merry month of May, back in Donegal 100 years ago. Tír Chonaill was tentatively wedged between the War of Independence and the Irish Civil war. This, after a General election had been called on May 19 ...

26 May 2022 at 15:40

Local News

McHugh's Miscellany: Donegal Food and scarcity in time of war - 1942

Talk of escalating prices and the growing scarcity of good and a new spotlight on food security as a result of the ongoing barbarity in Ukraine prompted me to examine the situation in Ireland this month 80 years ago. Then we were ...

28 Mar 2022 at 20:10

Donegal MD

McHugh's Miscellany - Days of old NW Health Board recalled

I read with deep sadness about the recent death of Donal O'Shea, from Sligo and native of Cork. In my early reporting days, Donal was the capable Chairman of the now defunct and much lamented North Western Health Board (NWHB), ...

10 Feb 2022 at 21:02

South Donegal

McHugh's Miscellany: Sense of community and service will always prevail

It's important to be an optimist these days, as you could find yourself cowering under the blankets with all the codology that is going on around us at present. But there is also huge inspiration around us. The volatility out ...

06 Oct 2022 at 19:11

$McHugh's Miscellany: Is there any sense to the fractional cent?$

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McHugh's Miscellany: Is there any sense to the fractional cent?

I want to address something this week that is both laughable and really needs to be changed for the people of this country. Maybe everybody else thinks it is a perfectly normal situation for all of us to let pass. And I want ...

30 Apr 2022 at 17:00

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McHugh's Miscellany: Why fear the wrath of El Presidente?

I see my old pal President Michael D Higgins has been causing a bit of a kerfuffle in government circles about comments he made recently over the smouldering, if not explosive housing crisis. He invoked the dastardly “D” ...

23 Jun 2022 at 15:14

Features

McHugh's Miscellany - Charm of Eurovision now just “All Kinds of Everything”

I would like to tell you that I was glued to the television on Tuesday night watching Ireland’s latest attempt to get to the finals night of the 2023 Eurovision Song contest in Liverpool with Wild Youth. It was the ...

12 May 2023 at 11:19

McHugh’s Miscellany Special - St Patrick, Civil War & the Poteen makers’ secret service

Features

McHugh’s Miscellany - St Patrick, Civil War & the Poteen makers’ secret service

As St Patrick’s Day 2023 is here, a quick glance at what is happening here and around the global pond conjures up a most sobering thought in advance of drowning the shamrock. But how were we reporting on local ...

17 Mar 2023 at 10:44

Features

McHugh's Miscellany: The Green flag that will always welcome the Stars and Stripes

US President Joe Biden is in Ireland this week you will know, unless you have been hiding somewhere deep in the wilds without communications of any kind. But I initially got the feeling that the excitement of ...

13 Apr 2023 at 10:07

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McHugh’s Miscellany - Fire stations conundrum is really an easy fix!

The amalgamation of anything should always be taken with a grain of salt, but when a proposed scenario that would see the citizens of one Donegal town under an underlying threat, concern or worry, must ...

08 Mar 2023 at 16:06

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