Degree aims for games capital

A COLLEGE lecturer is hoping to end Donegal’s employment blackspot status by making it the video games capital of Ireland.

The county has suffered in recent weeks with the closure of the Hospira and Clubman factories and the loss of more than 600 jobs.

Thomas Dowling, head of the computer department at Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LIT), has set up a course in computer games development to bring a new type of employment to the area.