A rare book has been returned to a Co Donegal library - 82 years after it was borrowed!

The fire will continue to be monitored overnight with a number of 'hot-spots' still under observation.

Two houses have been destroyed as dozens of firefighters try to tackle a massive gorse fire in West Donegal today.

The funerals of four young men who all tragically died in a car accident on Sunday night will take place in West Donegal on Thursday.

In a society that imagines itself civilised it is necessary to express great sympathy with the families of the four young men who died in a car crash in Donegal over the weekend.

Here's your morning bulletin.

Wee Daniel is just interested in salvaging wardrobes and adding an ensuite bathroom to every bedroom in the house.

A Limerick man and a Scottish man have been killed in separate road incidents in Ireland and Britain.

IT is difficult to imagine that the after-dinner, residents’ lounge conversation among any group involved in how our seas’ resources are managed, exploited or shared would be a cheery, celebratory affair. 

A hairdresser led gardaí on a 16km chase just days after she finished serving a four-year driving ban for dangerous driving.

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.

A Co Donegal man has been released on bail so he can go and work in London to raise money to pay back his victims.

To find out how a club with just 300 playing members will have five players on active duty in Sunday’s All-Ireland finals, go back to 1979.

Up to 7,000 homes are still without power this morning following storms around the country yesterday.

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.

We’ve only just reached the ‘official’ start of winter and already the snow has arrived and fears of a very chilly winter are growing.

Usually journalists are quite happy to get a name check from one of their own. We’re like that.

A FEW weeks ago I wrote about sparrow hawks and kestrels and I mentioned that the number of kestrels in this country was declining and I hadn’t seen one for several years.

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

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s mother Eithne died proud knowing her son had reached the pinnacle of political life, her funeral has been told.

IRELAND’S leading youth organisation Foróige was last night investigating whether serial paedophile Michael Ferry worked as a youth leader at one of its clubs.

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

FIRE chiefs and forestry agents warned last night that raging fires could continue today and possibly even further into the week as the sun continued to blaze across the north-west.

Fire fighters and the Defence Forces are continuing to battle raging gorse fires in West Donegal which, they say, were started deliberately.

Efforts to bring widespread gorse fires in the north-west under control are continuing this morning.

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

Emergency services on both sides of the border are this afternoon battling bog, forest and gorse fires.

A POLITICAL appointee by Tánaiste Mary Coughlan to a state board has said he will not accept the €8,250 annual fee and suggests others should follow suit.

Air accident investigators today hit out at a private flight school, branding its supervision of instructors unsatisfactory, after two men were killed in a training flight.

There are reports that convicted sex offender William John Paden, who is wanted by UK police, has been sighted in West Donegal.

Six students attending Irish college in the Gaeltacht in Donegal have been sent home after contracting swine flu.

Investigators probing a helicopter crash that killed a flying instructor and his student revealed today they are concerned the aircraft was missing overnight before anyone noticed.

A pensioner has become the latest person to die on the roads.

Electricity supply in the northwest is expected to be reconnected today after a night without power.

Irish Justice Minister Michael McDowell tonight warned trust was being eroded after two former IRA men were arrested with another man following the hijacking of a lorry load of vodka in Co Meath.

A detective garda today broke down in the witness box as he apologised to two innocent sisters for mistreating them in custody.

A row erupted in a Donegal garda station over the detention of a suspect arrested following the discovery of an explosive device at a telecoms mast, a garda told the Morris Tribunal today.

The death of a nine-year-old boy in a quarry in Co Donegal is a terrible tragedy, a parish priest said today.

Phone records could clear up allegations of gardaí holding a secret meeting following the death of a Donegal cattle dealer, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

AN EPIC love affair came to a dramatic end beneath the streets of the capital city yesterday but there weren’t too many tears at seeing it turn to dust.

SUNDAY has been a long time coming for John Gildea. The power-house midfielder has toiled with Donegal for the best part of a decade, yet Sunday will be his first All-Ireland semi-final.

Further job cuts have been announced for the west of Ireland.