A successful business making pens which have been bought by famous people around the globe was almost bankrupted by an uncle of the two teenage entrepreneurs.

Donegal has topped the National Geographic Traveller’s Cool List for 2017. Conor Power takes a road trip to find out why. 

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

After a tumultuous few months of hand wringing, convention dates, reminders, and exposures, which reminded me of a lump of driftwood left behind by the tide, and now being fought over by a swarm of beetles, the secret meetings, the handshakes, the infighting, and whisperings of splits in the camp, followed by weeks of speculation over who was going to get the nod at the Fianna Fáil convention, all we ended up with was a 68-year-old pensioner from Dungloe, born on the March 10, 1948, in Burtonport, which used to be a busy thriving fishing port but is now a ghostly shadow of its former self.

In his role as a technical instructor for Uefa, Packie Bonner occasionally bumps into his work colleague Ioan Lupescu on the continent.

A kitten is fighting for its life after thugs threw the animal onto a fire.

A coroner has issued an urgent warning after two men died and a third man was rushed to hospital after taking contaminated alcoholic drinks.

MEP Pat the Cope Gallagher and Meath Senator Thomas Byrne will represent Fianna Fáil in the European elections in the Midlands-North West region.

The country’s loneliest man is on his way back to England after 20 years living on the remote island of Inishfree.

Ireland’s loneliest man is moving back to England this year after 20 years on the Donegal island of Inishfree.

Sunken ships in our waters are heritage sites. The work of preserving their artifacts is chronicled in a new pictorial guide by the geological survey, says Noel Baker

The mother of Mary Boyle, who has been missing for 35 years this weekend, said she still thinks of the missing six-year-old every day and the pain never goes away.

MY licence plate, like many of the best things in life, came in two pieces.

THE wreckage of a sunken vessel believed to be from the Spanish Armada has been discovered off the Donegal coast.

The wreckage of a sunken vessel believed to be from the Spanish Armada has been discovered off the Donegal coast.

CANCER services and rising fuel prices were top of the agenda when Enda Kenny carried out a whistle-stop tour of Donegal yesterday.

An elderly woman has died in a house fire in Co. Donegal.

HITLER mesmerised Germany and people followed him in their millions.

ON Arainn Mhór Island off the Donegal coast, a strange sound greeted Taoiseach Brian Cowen on Saturday – applause.

NEXT Sunday, a large family from the isolated Donegal peninsula of St John’s Point will gather for Mass to pray for the souls of Francis Byrne and his son Jimmy.

A man was being quizzed by gardaí tonight after a passenger ferry was stolen off the north-west coast.

THE mother of Ireland’s longest-missing person has spoken of her heartbreak for the parents of little Madeleine McCann.

Eight crew are on board a trawler being towed to shore in a rescue mission off the north-west coast today.

Minister for the Marine John Browne today announced the allocation of €7.9m in funding for coastal protection and small harbours works throughout the country.

A GROUP of 24 Irish fishermen are taking the European Commission to court this week over the refusal by Brussels to grant increased tonnage to trawler owners who carried out safety improvements to their vessels.

THE cousin of a 12-year-old Bray girl who drowned in Glendalough on Monday described yesterday how the ground just gave way under their feet as they were paddling.

CROWDS at Ennis’s St Patrick’s Day Parade yesterday witnessed a rare public outing from Eamon de Valera’s 1947 Plymouth Dodge.

A suspicious device which washed up along the coastline of Donegal is believed to be a marine flare, it emerged today.

A 31-year-old man has died following a road traffic accident at Burtonport in Co Donegal.

THE future of RTÉ’s reality TV show Cabin Fever remains in doubt following the sinking of the 90ft schooner involved in the programme off the Donegal coast on Friday.

Gardaí have named a teenager drowned after apparently getting into trouble while swimming in the seaside town of Burtonport, Co Donegal, yesterday.