It’s a Wednesday evening and the main street in Ardara is quiet.

Normally, the distance from the Burlington Hotel to Glenswilly is 260 kilometres or so — but this was no normal week in Donegal.

Wrapped in a Brazilian flag sporting the name of his late friend Tomás Maguire at Donegal’s Ulster final homecoming in July, Paddy McGrath admits he was emotional.

A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.