Such has been Rory Beggan’s total focus on Sunday’s Ulster club final, his club manager wasn’t even aware he was missing the All-Stars trip to Philadelphia this weekend.

Altan are on the road 30 years, and fiddler Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is as happy as ever to play their music, even if she’s starting to pass the baton to her daughter, writes Marjorie Brennan.

They share more than a surname, principally a red-blooded passion for Cork GAA, with a combined 88 years of astonishing service to the cause.

Latest: Garda Keith Harrison has told the Charleton tribunal that the garda Pulse database was "was similar to a social media site" a decade ago.

Trust us, it’s not for the faint-hearted.

Clannad have always been a big band for me.

Leo Brennan, the father of international entertainers Enya and Clannad, died at his home in Gweedore, Co Donegal, yesterday.

Music takes you somewhere else. It has a quality that elevates you to a higher plane.

Accumulated profits at Enya’s music business firm nearly topped €1m last year, new figures show.

A cancer patient was given vital pre-chemotherapy treatment on a trolley in a corridor at Letterkenny General Hospital this week.

When Paddy McConigley was growing up kicking football for his local Fanad Gaels club at Triaghalough in north-west Donegal, little did he know where the wind on the gusty peninsula would take him.

The night they returned to Donegal Town having reclaimed the Anglo-Celt Cup last July, Eamon McGee was content on the peripheries.

Two days after the 2005 Donegal SFC final, Jim McGuinness gathered Naomh Conaill’s panel together in the shadow of Davy Brennan Memorial Park’s stand in Glenties.

A victim of serial paedophile Michael Ferry has said he may go to the European Court of Human Rights to get answers as to why the convicted sex offender was able to continue working at a school, where he abused more children.

The cash pile at Enya’s music business firm last year jumped by over €220,000, even though the best-selling artist hasn’t released a new album in over four years.

All seven nominees for this year’s Billy Coleman Award for the Young Rally Driver of the Year have now been announced.

My warmest thanks to the people of Bellaghy in Co Derry. After the interment of the poet Seamus Heaney, we received wonderful hospitality in the parish hall.

What’s going on here?

Companies are paying exorbitant premiums to base their businesses in Gaeltacht areas.

Be warned — Neil McGee reveals Donegal have already talked about defending their All-Ireland title next year.

With one line, Eamon McGee gives a brutally honest appraisal of his football career before Jim McGuinness.

Some 26 jobs have been lost at Donegal financial services call centre Eist agus Cuidiú Teo, it emerged this morning.

Nostalgia is a great thing.

Comórtas Peile Náisiúnta na Gaeltachta returns to its roots in Gweedore this weekend.

An investigation has found that eight out of nine gardaí in the Donegal Gaeltacht could not carry out their duties through Irish.

The ballot on the One Member One Vote motion at the Fianna Fáil ard fheis at the weekend.

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

WE were sitting in a café on the Ormeau Road, talking football, when Declan Bogue told me that he was writing a book.

Derek Mulligan has said that the response from the school, where the caretaker who had abused him worked, makes him "sick to his stomach".

JUSTICE MINISTER Alan Shatter said it is up to gardaí to investigate whether or not the operators of the school where paedophile Michael Ferry worked broke any criminal law.

The Donegal summer school where a convicted sex offender worked as a caretaker has issued a statement today expressing its "deepest regret" to Michael Ferry's victims.

Sinn Féin TD for Donegal South West Pearse Doherty has said with hindsight, he was exposed to what could be deemed as inappropriate behaviour by convicted paedophile Michael Ferry.

THE system which allowed a convicted paedophile to return to his school caretaker position and abuse four more boys has been branded a joke by his original victim.

The Garda commissioner has told the Justice Minister that Gardaí in Donegal expressed concern about the continued employment of child abuser Michael Ferry at a school in 2002.

The Justice Minister is demanding to know why a school caretaker, who had a conviction for sexually assault, was allowed to continue working at a Donegal school - where he then sexually molested another four young boys.

The rape victim of a Donegal school caretaker who was yesterday jailed says the pain of what he went through will never go away.

A DONEGAL caretaker who kept his job at a school despite a conviction for sexually assaulting a pupil has been sentenced to 18 years for the rape and sexual assault of four more boys.

A caretaker jailed for 14 years today for molesting and raping four boys at a Donegal school has been described as a "demon" by one of his victims.

AN investment of €2.6 million by Largo Foods in its Co Donegal-based snack-food facility will create 35 jobs.

The DPP has interrupted a civil trial in which an elderly man is being sued after his car swerved into another vehicle, resulting in spinal injuries to a child.

An elderly man whose car crossed on to the wrong side of the road and in collision with another vehicle, resulting in the death of his wife and a child suffering severe spinal injuries, has claimed he is not liable for the accident because a medical ailment caused him to lose control of his car.