Literary great Brian Friel was buried yesterday on a hillside outside a Co Donegal town where many of his works were set.

Author and Youtuber John Green graced our shores this month to promote his book turned movie Paper Towns.

As part of his rather excellent YouTube series on Irish and world history, Jon D Ruddy has made this handy video exploring the Wild Atlantic Way.

A young farmer believes he was simply "in the right place at the right time" when he heard a drowning fisherman’s cry for help, a half-mile away.

A three-year-old boy was among five lives lost on the roads over the bank holiday weekend.

A woman killed when her car collided with a bus in Donegal was the sixth person to die on the same stretch of road in recent years.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested after a jeep was driven through the door of a dole office in Donegal.

Gardaí surrounded a house in Co Donegal last night in their hunt for suspected killer Kieran McLaughlin.

A number of Garda operations are underway in Co Donegal tonight as part of the manhunt for the Derry murder suspect Kieran McLaughlin.

A businessman is giving away his pub rent-free for six months in a bid to attract customers back.

One in every 222 people in Ireland was the victim of a burglary during the first nine months of 2012 as the number of household break-ins increased by over 5%.

Gardaí are investigating two more aggravated burglaries on the homes of elderly people in Donegal.

Gardaí have released two men they had been questioning over the discovery of two illegal oil laundering plants in counties Louth and Monaghan.

Two men are still in garda custody this morning, being held for questioning over two illegal oil laundering plants uncovered in counties Louth and Monaghan.

Two men have been arrested after gardaí and customs officials uncovered two oil laundering plants in counties Monaghan and Louth.

Vandals have been slammed for destroying a plaque left at the scene of a Co Donegal collision which resulted in the death of Garda Gary McLoughlin.

Traders along the border are seeking to boost business as customers flock from the North to enjoy the strongest sterling exchange rates seen for years.

The family of Garda Gary McLoughlin have expressed their shock and upset that the man found responsible for his death was sent to a low security prison from which he was able to escape.

The search is on for Ireland’s number one mum.

IRELAND’s number one mum, Fionnuala Marston, is described as “the daughter I never had” by her mother-in-law who nominated her for the title.

Gardaí in Donegal have launched an investigation after an explosive device was thrown at a house in Muff last night.

MORE than 50 troops and three Air Corps helicopters were drafted in to help battle wild fires in the north-west.

A man and two children had a lucky escape after a gun attack in Co. Donegal last night.

A car occupied by four men accused of IRA membership was chased and stopped by a Garda patrol in Co Donegal last year, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

A YOUNG man killed yesterday during a high-speed Garda pursuit on the Donegal border was facing a Real IRA death threat.

A young man killed today during a high-speed garda pursuit was facing a Real IRA death threat, it has been revealed.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission has been called in to investigate a fatal road accident in Co Donegal.

A PEDESTRIAN died in Co Clare last night, bringing to five the weekend death toll on the roads.

A 21-year-old man was killed in a car crash today.

Gardaí tonight named the five victims of this weekend's car crashes in Donegal.

The county of Donegal is today mourning the death of five people killed in road accidents over St Patrick’s weekend.

The death toll from three overnight road accidents in County Donegal has risen to four.

A man has been killed in a road crash in Co Donegal.

A voluntary code drawn up to ensure the safety of cash-in-transit workers may never work, Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Michael McDowell admitted last night.

BANK staff should “think carefully” before agreeing to become key holders following the latest ‘tiger kidnapping’, the bank officials’ body said yesterday.

A husband and wife today became the latest victims of a 'tiger' kidnapping in which an armed gang got away with almost €2m.

THE family of a murdered Donegal councillor yesterday renewed calls for an independent public inquiry — 15 years after the killing by loyalist paramilitaries.

Four of the five people killed in yesterday’s two-car collision in Co Donegal were Latvian nationals, it emerged today.

The roads of Donegal will be patrolled for the first time today by the county’s own dedicated Garda Traffic Corps Unit in a bid to halt the loss of young lives in crashes.

A Garda Traffic Corps unit is to be established in Donegal in a bid to halt a spate of road deaths that has ravaged the county.

Community leaders in Buncrana, Co Donegal, today appealed for action to cut the number of young people dying in road accidents as hundreds gathered for the funerals of those killed in last weekend’s tragic crash.

Four of the five young people killed in Saturday's horrific road accident in Co Donegal are due to be buried in Buncrana this morning.

The death of a man in road accident in Co Donegal in the early hours of this morning has brought the number of deaths on the roads this weekend to eight.

The Government is being urged to draw up a separate road safety strategy for Co Donegal after crashes in the county claimed six young lives this weekend.