An 89-year-old cancer patient has been forced to find her own way to travel over 200km for treatment.

An 89-year old cancer patient has been forced to find her own way to travel 250km to receive cancer treatment.

A county registrar has revealed that court sittings to address repossession orders in Donegal are already backed up for of months.

Back when The Menu roamed the professional kitchen ranges, he had the pleasure of working alongside the very excellent Mags Curtin and it was no great surprise that she went on to become the very first Pastry Chef at Café Paradiso, for she is a fine producer of sweet baked comestibles.

Gaeltacht Minister, Joe McHugh has started school to learn a language he is supposed to be speaking and promoting.

Ministers who give grants to groups in their own constituencies without explaining why should be accused of "geographical top-ups" in the same way as charity officials have been criticised for misusing public money.

A fisherman is recovering after being pulled from the sea off Donegal where he was heard screaming for help while he clung to a buoy marking lobster pots.

ON one of the few calm days we’ve had recently, I was out contemplating my sodden vegetable garden and when I’d be able to prepare the beds for planting. I heard an unmistakable sound. The call of wild geese, which is like a distant pack of hounds in the sky.

An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 farmers and their supporters took part in the IFA Day of Action in Dublin on Tuesday.

A small GAA community has been left devastated by the death of a young footballer celebrating Donegal’s first All-Ireland final in 20 years.

A 24-year-old man drowned in the Royal Canal returning home after celebrating Donegal’s win in the All-Ireland football semi-final.

Rare unpublished letters written by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis have been donated to a university in his native Belfast.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of human remains near Redcastle in north Donegal.

An earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale has been recorded in north Donegal.

Around 7,000 homeowners are still without electricity this afternoon.

A man in his 50s has been killed in a road traffic collision in north Donegal.

I HEARD an unmistakable sound — a wild trumpeting filling the sky.

Between three and four thousand people are still without power this afternoon after stormy conditions disrupted power lines.

The search for a missing fisherman feared dead in Donegal will resume this morning.

The search for a missing fisherman off the north Donegal coast has been called off because of bad weather.

About 70 rounds of ammunition and components which could be used in a bomb were found today dumped in a field in north Donegal.

The final victim of Ireland’s worst road crash to be buried was a proud family man, full of life and with a heart of gold, mourners heard today.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has conveyed his sympathies following the deaths of eight men in a horrific road accident in Donegal.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and Tánaiste Mary Coughlan visited the north Donegal town of Buncrana to pay their respects following the death of 24-year-old Garda Gary McLoughlin who died from injuries he received when a vehicle ploughed into his patrol car at the weekend.

Islanders off the north west coast of Ireland became the first people to vote on the Lisbon Treaty today, with the most remote said to be on the verge of rejecting it.

IRISH fishermen got an early Christmas gift in the form of an extra 4% of fish they can catch next year following EU negotiations, but fishermen off Donegal will need new nets under revised rules.

The manager of a fast food outlet in Derry was taken hostage by a group of armed men in his north Donegal home shortly after 7.30pm yesterday in a so-called tiger kidnapping.

Over 40,000 women took to the sun-laden streets of Dublin today some in search of glory and others for a hard-earned buck for their favourite charity.

PLANS for a €60 million five-star hotel and a championship golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus will be unveiled in Donegal today.

GARDAÍ tried to keep a fresh probe into the mysterious death of a veteran political activist under wraps as they were worried about conducting the investigation under a media spotlight, it has emerged.

Two years after Mary Reid’s mysterious death, her family still fights for the truth, writes John Breslin.

Families involved in the Morris Tribunal will be among those at tonight’s meeting, writes John Breslin.

A COMPLAINT by the McBrearty family against a detective sergeant who was accused of borrowing money from publicans in Donegal prompted the campaign of intimidation and false accusations which ultimately led to the Morris Tribunal.

Rosalind McBrearty tells of Donegal family’s nine-year nightmare, writes John Breslin.

Fine Gael leader will be among the participants taking part in a mammoth charity cycle in aid of the Association of Suicidology over the June bank holiday weekend.

Doctors in the north-west are reportedly treating an elderly man suspected of contracting vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease.

Brian McEniff has vowed to remain as Donegal football manager despite all the disappointments and controversies of the past four weeks. He explained his reasons to Mark Gallagher.

THIS entire set of circumstances started with a mischievous young woman anxious to portray herself as an informer, says Mr Justice Frederick Morris.

Ireland is in mourning today as the impact of the death of one of its brightest sports stars hit home.

The Combat Poverty Agency is calling for the introduction of a national waiver scheme for bin charges.

A PSYCHIATRIC patient found dead in a river three days after he disappeared, had appeared calm and quietly read a book on the journey back to the mental health unit where he was being treated.

TWO politicians are to take a High Court action after they were ordered by a tribunal investigating garda corruption to reveal the source of allegations about the relationship between a detective sergeant and two of the country’s top gardaí.

A TEENAGER, whose best friend died after taking a lethal mixture of painkilling pills and spirits, remained in a stable condition in hospital last night.

A rescue operation is underway off Tory Island on the north Donegal coast.