A fund to help an Irish nurse killed in a freak accident in Australia has reached a staggering €65,000 in less than 24 hours.

A young Irish nurse has been killed in Australia after a tree fell onto a taxi she was travelling in.

Donegal County Council has granted planning for a €6m distillery and visitor centre in Ardara for Sliabh Liag Distillers.

A 90-degree vertiginous cliff above, and a disappearing ground below, is no place to contemplate the nature of landscape and what actually constitutes an island. Actually I lie.

WOW!

Last Saturday my wife and I attended a ‘Come Dine with Me’ evening in the Heritage Centre in Ardara, Co Donegal.

A family may have to sell their farm and move to Britain where their teenage girl can receive a lifesaving drug for a rare blood condition.

The Donegal and Derry county boards have strongly defended their actions against players for criticism of referees on social media.

A couple have finally been allowed to buy their 300-year-old Donegal cottage house after living in it rent-free for 16 years.

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

Irish Water Safety (IWS) has called for compulsory aquatic training for primary school children as part of a long-term strategy to prevent future drowning tragedies.

A 24-year-old man has drowned in the sea off Ardara, Co Donegal today.

There were some big casualties in the Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC at the weekend in its first season using first round groups.

Five trappers are to be deployed across the country from Monday to hunt down predators, including feral mink, that are ravaging trout and endangered birds.

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

The Donegal Senior Football team will bring the Sam Maguire Cup to the south of the county today.

The people of Westport, Co Mayo, are celebrating this morning after the town was named the best place to live in Ireland.

A bus driver has been hailed a hero after his driving skills helped to save the lives of more than 50 elderly people who were on a pensioners’ outing.

Simon Thornton could not have endured a more contrasting day of emotions during the final round of the Andalucian Open at Marbella.

NAYD director Orlaith McBride applauds the rise of community drama, reports Pádraic Killeen

The outbreak of wildfires raging across Ireland because of the lengthy dry spell is unprecedented, according to fire chiefs.

FIRE chiefs and forestry agents warned last night that raging fires could continue today and possibly even further into the week as the sun continued to blaze across the north-west.

There is hope this evening that 40 of the 124 jobs lost at Gallagher's Bakery in Co Donegal this week can be saved, after management at the company met the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta.

The Tánaiste said today that she is focusing on saving as many jobs as possible at Gallagher's Bakery in Ardara, Co Donegal and providing training and support for those who have been laid off.

Efforts are underway today to save as many jobs as possible at Gallagher's Bakery in Ardara, in Co Donegal.

A SMALL Donegal town has suffered a devastating blow after a bakery last night blamed rising costs and a drop in sales for the loss of at least 124 jobs.

There are fears for almost 200 jobs at a bakery in Donegal.

A man in his 60s has died in a work place accident in Co. Donegal.

Donegal manager John Joe Doherty has kept faith with the team that defeated Derry for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier against Galway (Markievicz Park, throw-in 5pm).

Newly crowned Dunlop National Rally champions, Patrick Elliott and Paul Goodman (Subaru) have won the Ardara based Donegal Harvest Rally, the final round of the national series.

WHAT began as a relatively low profile season for Alan Ring has ended up in a hectic end of season finale that has the former Kerry circuit racer chasing success on three different championships fronts.

TWO books by well-known Irish naturalists have come to hand. One celebrates a river and the landscape through which it flows; the other focuses on a peninsula in Co Donegal.

A suspended garda sergeant, heavily criticised in the last three reports from the Morris Tribunal, today made an application to have his legal costs paid.

Ninety new jobs are to be created in a West Donegal bakery, it was announced this afternoon.

THE doctor treating Detective Sergeant John White has been summoned to appear before the Morris Tribunal this morning after Mr Justice Frederick Morris said he was not satisfied the witness was unable to appear.

The detective sergeant at the centre of the latest Morris Tribunal reports has confirmed his intention to leave the Gardaí.

Suspended Detective Sergeant John White tonight claimed the Morris Tribunal’s finding that he is corrupt is perverse and insisted his acquittal in court proved his innocence.

Ardara, on the edge of Donegal’s western seaboard, became another town blackened by allegations of garda corruption after an arson attack on a telecommunications mast and an explosive was planted at it in November 1996.

Suspended Detective Sergeant John White is corrupt and manipulative, Mr Justice Frederick Morris found, despite a judge and jury clearing him of criminal charges.

The Government is due to publish three more reports today from the Morris Tribunal into alleged Garda corruption in Co Donegal.

The latest findings from the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption in Co Donegal will now be published soon after a related criminal trial finished today.

A 25-YEAR-OLD building worker died tragically in the Canary Islands just a day after arriving on a holiday.

A young Donegal man has drowned while on holidays in the Canary Islands, it was confirmed today.