A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at a special sitting of Ballyshannon District Court in Co Donegal.

A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at a special sitting of Ballyshannon District Court in Co Donegal.

A builder who found a couple beaten to death with an axe in their Co Donegal home has spoken of the horror discovery.

A retired school teacher and his wife, a former nurse, have been found dead in a suspected double murder.

An eight-year-old schoolgirl has beaten students more than twice her age to become the overall winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition.

A cash-strapped father fears he will have to borrow from the credit union if his local secondary school goes ahead with plans to introduce iPads this year.

PAUL DOHERTY loved “doing the lap” — a local phrase for driving around town, showing off your wheels and having the craic, mourners at his funeral heard yesterday.

THERE was a numbed silence across a Donegal peninsula yesterday evening as hearse after hearse made the journey from Letterkenny General Hospital to Fahan, Buncrana, Clonmany and Ballyliffen and families prepared for the first of eight funerals today.

GARDAÍ and emergency services were called to a Donegal school for the fourth time in a fortnight after what turned out to be another hoax bomb alert yesterday morning.