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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

Whether that was the rejection of school extensions at the time, confrontation with the Navy off the Donegal coast, denim-clad hooligans descending upon Bundoran or Donegal GAA raising training funds for their Ulster final teams, it gives a ...

15 Jul 2023 at 15:49

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

This week’s 'A Matter of Record' offering from Michael McHugh begins with the reality of why the Railways died out in Donegal, because of the stranglehold that the North of Ireland rail connections had over this county and the simple fact ...

03 Jul 2023 at 14:52

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A Matter of Record - An Historical look back at the pages of the Donegal Democrat

A new year and another journey into the eclectic and entertaining archives of the Donegal Democrat with Michael McHugh. And in the days when Communism and Fascism were quickly becoming two of the great sins of the early 20th century - ...

03 Jan 2024 at 11:19

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

21 Jul 2023 at 11:22

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A Matter of Record - the Donegal Democrat down the years

The many uses of the flour bag, winning oarsmen having their prizes confiscated at the border by Customs officials, the hardy Belleek donkey who brushed off a collision by a car going at 30 m.p.h. and the fight to keep Glenties ...

24 Aug 2023 at 11:58

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A matter of Record - Donegal Democrat down the years

This week’s look back at the Democrat archives with Michael McHugh looks at proposals for utilising the Erne for power purposes, decades before it actually came to fruition, the closure of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly ...

19 Aug 2023 at 14:20

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A Matter of Record: A look at the Donegal Democrat History archive down the years

This week takes us from a 1923 to 1963 including a lucky local man falling between a boat and the pier in Donegal Town, then driving straight home with his lorry full of goods, political prisoners being released in ...

23 Nov 2023 at 16:54

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Donegal Democrat History - A Matter of Record

This week’s flashback into the Donegal Democrat archives with Michael McHugh includes the Government’s decision to establish a deep sea port at Killybegs in 1933, tea rationing in WW2, a ‘Major’ player on the Erne ...

05 Oct 2023 at 12:16

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Donegal Council chamber smoking ban sought as it was a 'venial sin' in 1964

Forget the medical dangers of contracting a disease or illness through smoking. In 1964, an attempt was made to prevent smoking in the Donegal county council chamber as it could land you with commiting a sin, ...

02 Feb 2024 at 16:53

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat Archive down the years

Donegal Democrat, Friday, October 26, 1923 - 100 years ago Bundoran Prisoners Every night during the week numbers of people joined in the public recital of the Rosary for the Republican Prisoners' speedy ...

26 Oct 2023 at 11:54

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

This week, we bring to you a follow up to last week’s instalment after an avid reader of the column ‘A Matter of Record’ in the USA got in contact with the author and provided what he thinks might be ...

20 Oct 2023 at 14:51

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A matter of record - Donegal Democrat down the Years

The Donegal Democrat has been reporting from the highways and byways of the county since its first publication back in June 1919. It is part of our rich historic legacy which began just before the ...

12 May 2023 at 14:08

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