Arranmore Island, which has a population of around 450 people, is now asking people not to visit them until the end of March.

The Gaeltacht town of Dungloe celebrated the €1m lotto win today.

Status orange and yellow weather warnings have been issued for parts of the country tomorrow.

The 28-year-old was the driver of a car that collided with another car on the N15 at Laheen, Ballyshannon at around 11.30 last night.

You might describe it as a “match made in heaven” — one church is so popular with couples getting married that it has taken on a former hotel manager to specifically look after the matrimonial end of things.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after an 11-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was knocked down by a van in Co Donegal.

A teenage boy who barricaded himself into a home in Letterkenny for a number of days with access to firearms and ammunition is receiving medical assessment at a Garda station in Co Donegal.

The teenager received a number of kicks in the head after being set upon by a number of other boys after the disco on Friday on the Port Road in Letterkenny.

From the best bread to the best dairy, these awards have the cream of the crop.

The arrest warrant says the PSNI officer’s wife awoke in the early hours of June 18 and looked out her bedroom window and saw a male in the driveway on the ground at the driver's door of her husband's car.

Basking sharks which were sampled off the west Kerry coast in early spring have proved to be genetically different to all other such sharks tested in the north-east Atlantic, according to a study.

Vandalism including the lighting of fires has caused damage and associated repair costs to historic sites managed by the Office of Public Works, according to new data.

Pat Doherty’s Harcourt Developments have sold sites in Las Vegas for $14m (€12.6m) and in Latvia for €2m to help reduce the group’s €630.4m debt.

Only a third of the country’s network of more than 560 garda stations has experienced an increase in staffing levels in the past five years, despite almost 2,800 extra gardaí joining the force over the period.

Only a third of the country’s network of over 560 Garda stations has experienced an increase in staffing levels in the past five years, despite almost 2,800 extra gardaí joining the force over the period.

The recent rescue of a trawler 20km north of Fanad Head in Co Donegal gave us a glimpse of the enormous seas that occasionally strike that part of the coast.

“All of the judges gravitated towards it because it is such a wonderful moody landscape photograph.”

It happened on Golfcourse Road on the outskirts of Letterkenny, when his car left the road and struck an embankment and wall shortly after 9pm last night.

New Year celebrations were ignored in many towns and villages across Co Donegal last night as the body of tragic nurse Mary Ellen Molloy was brought home for burial.

The woman, who was the driver of the car, died at the scene and was removed to Letterkenny University Hospital.

Volunteer security guards will patrol church car-parks in Co Donegal for Christmas masses after a spate of break-ins to parishioner's cars.

Handbags, an Apple iPod as well as children's medication was taken during the series of thefts.

Mary Ellen Molloy from Ardara in Co Donegal died in Melbourne when a tree fell on the car she was traveling in.

From Christmas Day swims to Christmas tree flings, there’s no excuse to be a couch potato this festive season, with lots on offer to get you and your loved ones up, out, and on the move, writes Susan O’Shea.

Noel Cunningham is the general manager of Harvey’s Point Hotel in Co Donegal.

The Irish coast is famous for its rough, wild coastline and we have even tied a nice ribbon around it and marketed it to sell its appeal.

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.

Patrick J Kelly was dismissed as Killybegs harbour master in Co Donegal in 2009 following a number of complaints about him including from Mary Coughlan in 2004 when she was Minister for Social and Family Affairs.

A transatlantic jet has diverted to Shannon Airport after the crew declared an emergency over Co Donegal, reporting a fuel leak on board.