Donegal County Council has launched an initiative to secure land for social housing.

Rather than condemnation, parishoners prayed for vandals who toppled gravestones in a graveyard.

A young man killed in an early-morning car crash in Co Donegal yesterday had only recently become a father again for the second time.

Caitríona McBride went to school with Eamon McGee, where she had to defend her pencil case from the future Donegal defender. They met recently to bring his story up to date.

A Co Donegal man with a phobia of dogs twice tried to run over a woman out walking her dog.

Hundreds of families remained without power overnight after the fierce Atlantic storm, which crashed into the country blacking out homes, grounding flights, halting ferry crossings and delaying countless rail and road commuters.

Brave neighbours managed to pull a 76-year-old woman from her burning home in Co Donegal, but she died at the scene just minutes later.

A fed-up whale watcher has rescued two pilot whales which had been left to die on a Co Donegal beach.

All 13 members of a pod of long-finned pilot whales which live-stranded on a beach in Co Donegal yesterday morning have died despite the best efforts of locals to save them.

Hopes were fading for the survival of any members of a pod of pilot whales beached off Co Donegal.

Locals in Donegal launched a rescue operation this morning after a pod of 13 pilot whales was stranded on a beach in the north of the county.

ON THE face of it, Patrick O’Sullivan appeared to get off lightly. O’Sullivan is the chairman of the Kerry GAA county board, and proprietor of the well known Killarney hostelry, Tatler Jack’s.

Thieves beat and taunted an elderly farmer in his home before stealing his shotgun and a small sum of cash in the early hours of Friday morning.

A Co Donegal woman was denied a much-needed job in a nursing home after a Garda vetting form listed convictions she did not have.

An arrest warrant has been issued for an angler who threatened to stone fisheries officers after being caught fishing illegally.

A man in his 40s died in a hit-and-run incident in Co Kerry.

Gardaí in Co Donegal are investigating a housefire last night which claimed the life of a 40-year old woman.

More than 2,000 people formed a huge human chain to link two Donegal towns for charity.

A loving father has told how he heard about his helicopter pilot son’s tragic death on his car radio.

I WOULD dearly love to have our sovereignty back unless it’s really sold down the river by this stage, and if it’s not too much to ask, a government that really means what it says and cares for its people before banks or bondholders.

A sex abuse survivor has today demanded a full State inquiry into an alleged cover-up of a church paedophile ring in Co Donegal.

RORY KAVANAGH was sent off for two yellow cards before his St Eunan’s, Letterkenny side clawed back two late points to scramble a draw against Glenswilly in the Donegal SFC quarter-final in Ballybofey yesterday.

DONEGAL secured a double at the Comórtas Peile na Gealtachta in Falcarragh yesterday as hosts Cloughaneely lifted their third All-Ireland senior title with a hard-fought victory over Moycullen of Galway while Naomh Mhuire took the junior title.

INCESSANT rain certainly dampened the spectacle of the Comórtas Peile Na Gealtachta in Falcarragh, Co Donegal but the miserable conditions failed to deter Cloughaneely and Moycullen, who will meet this afternoon in the senior final.

FALCARRAGH, Co Donegal is bracing itself for up to 15,000 visitors on what promises to be a fine weekend weather-wise, as well as in terms of football where 17 teams from Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Kerry, Cork, Antrim, Waterford, Dublin and London will contest the senior and junior competitions.

Forty soldiers are supporting fire crews in Donegal as they battle wildfires for a sixth day.

Efforts are continuing to quell the gorse and forest fires that are raging in the north west.

The Taoiseach has condemned what he described as "deliberate arson attacks" on land and gorse in the north of the country.

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

FERRIES and a helicopter carried ballot papers to the first of 2,600 island residents voting in the general election. Islanders in Donegal South-West and Mayo voted two days ahead of tomorrow’s mainland poll.

Voting is underway to elect a new TD for the Donegal South West Constituency today.

A PENSIONER is being treated in hospital for serious burns when his house was extensively damaged in a gas explosion in the Donegal Gaeltacht on Sunday night.

A man has been taken to hospital following an overnight explosion at a house in Co Donegal.

A father and son, jailed for a total of 16 years for drugs offences had their convictions overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

CONCERN has been voiced about ongoing conditions in nursing homes after details emerged about the large number of complaints being made and upheld against nursing homes across the Republic.

A CHEF whose ear was bitten off during a late-night attack in a Donegal chipper said yesterday his attacker is likely to be out of prison after a year.

An elderly woman was killed tonight in a car crash.

I HAVE some sympathy for the predicament of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuív in relation to redrawing Gaeltacht boundaries.

A man was shot and left for dead on a remote mountain in Co Donegal after being attacked by suspected drug dealers.

A father and son are due to appear in court again today having been charged last night in connection with the seizure of €500,000 worth of drugs in Falcarragh, Co Donegal, on Monday.

GARDAÍ believe a father and son arrested in a massive drug bust in Donegal are working for a big criminal gang in the North.

Two men from Armagh were being questioned today about a €514,000 drugs seizure in Co Donegal.

Two men were arrested today after a multi-agency cross-border investigation uncovered half a million euro worth of cannabis smuggled into the country.