10 people were airlifted to Letterkenny University Hospital by the rescue 118 helicopter.

HE’S a former Olympic boxing gold medal winner, but when it comes to his latest sporting challenge, 51-year-old Michael Carruth says he’s a “raw beginner”.

A 66-year-old man was found on the side of the road, just after midnight local time on Saturday.

Donegal County Council is continuing to help those affected by the devastating floods last week.

More than 300 different parts of the 1,500km road network across the Inishowen peninsula were damaged by last Tuesday’s floods.

The fourth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s death falls next Wednesday but the service he celebrated in The Shipping Forecast is celebrating 150 years of saving lives.

Dozens of families have been left homeless, businesses ruined, and bridges washed away after devastating flooding on the Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal.

reland boasts some of the world’s best roads. John O’Mahony went exploring in the spectacular new BMW 5 series

The body of a diver has been discovered off the coast of County Donegal.

MONDAY. I’ve been having a secret love affair for two weeks but have managed to keep it on the down-low. Heaven forbid my husband should ever discover that I’ve fallen in love. With an old bike.

Each week Denise O’Donoghue profiles one of the runners taking part in the Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon this June.

A sweeping search of the area where helicopter Rescue 116 went down is continuing this morning.

The Irish Coast Guard was established in 2000, evolving from the former Irish Marine Emergency Service (IMES) founded in 1991.

In a year in which an Irish Coast Guard volunteer died in the course of duty, the service says it has rescued or assisted 405 people in 2016.

TIMING is everything, they say, and for West Waterford and the Dungarvan/Clonea area, lots of planets are aligning and crossing paths to give it a deserved place in the sun.

Gardaí are investigating “satanic” attacks at a number of churches in Co Donegal in recent days.

The thousands of extras who auditioned this week for the next season of the hit TV series, Vikings, underlined further the vibrancy of the Irish film and television production as the industry forges ahead into one of its busiest summers.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Pity most of us were sleeping…

The Northern Lights were on display last night across the country and, while most of us were too busy sleeping to catch one of the greatest shows on Earth, some people were out capturing its splendour on camera.

If you really do want to get away from it all, the madding crowd and the beach scene bustle, then pack up your troubles, and go to Kit’s Cottage.

Pat MacAuliffe shows us around his 1966 Ford Corsair.

It took more than a half- century of whole-hearted commitment but finally Letterkenny has won the title of the country’s Tidiest Town.

The Irish Coast Guard has unveiled a new information system across its operations which, it is hoped, will allow them to streamline how rescues are coordinated and resources are deployed.

Meet marathon man Alex O’ Shea from Ballineen, Cork. Alex is not your normal long-distance runner.

Margaret Jennings hears about one man’s walk, just before his 60th birthday, from Mizen Head to Malin Head and what he learned about himself along the way.

Shows on kidnappings, Irish pub and the Troubles Documentary explores legacies of three Irish titans

Tommy Barker went halfway up the Wild Atlantic Way to dip a toe in the waters of Ennistymon Falls.

Shares in newly-formed Irish investment firm Malin closed up 6% at the end of its first day’s trading in Dublin yesterday.

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Bay to Bay in a single day — that’s the latest challenge from charity cycling group Better Life Cycle.

Little Niamh Harkin was diagnosed with what most of us know as "clicky hips" at the age of six months.

More than 530 children are stuck on waiting lists for orthopaedic surgery, some of whom need urgent treatment for spinal curvature, a scenario described as "unacceptably dangerous" by a leading paediatric surgeon.

The Menu has finally given up his relentless badgering of the UN for some class of international intervention on behalf of the wonderful Deise County to negotiate a return to the stove for his excellent friend Mighty Michael Quinn, formerly award-winning head chef of Waterford Castle for nigh on 20 years. 

Want to discover the Wild Atlantic Way? Tommy Barker checks out the most southern point, at Mizen Head in West Cork, and the most northern — Malin Head in Donegal.

An adventurer and polar explorer, always on the lookout for new challenges, has become the first person to fly from Mizen Head to Malin Head by a paramotor.

Kerry adventurer and polar explorer, Mike O’Shea, has become the first person to fly from Mizen Head to Malin Head by a paramotor.

When Pádraig Marrey was booted out of the An Post Rás last year along with 28 others for missing the time limit on stage three, he would have been be forgiven if he decided to call time on his 27-year racing career.

A group of cyclists from Castleknock in Dublin last week completed a gruelling 660km cycle from Mizen to Malin Head in aid of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.

For most people the long weekend is an opportunity to put the feet up and take a breather but for one remarkable 70-year-old it marks the start of an incredible journey the length of Ireland.

A man whose dying son made it to his 21st birthday thanks to blood transfusions is now setting out to bank a remarkable month’s supply of blood.

If proof were needed of the long shadow cast by the Everly Brothers, consider the sound of Donegal’s musical siblings: The Henry Girls.

The Department of Transport has denied that any jobs will be lost in its Coast Guard service although an entire layer of management has been removed following a review.