August 17th, 2010
All County League Division Two
Killybegs 0-03 Malin 0-14
Malin sit proudly at the top of the All County League Division Two following an emphatic win over the Fisherman of Killybegs on Saturday evening.
Glenfin’s draw with MacCumhaill’s on Sunday means the Inishowen side are now in the healthy position of leaders by a point with a game in [...]
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August 17th, 2010
A cross border monkey hunt was launched on Sunday last after Buncrana’s most recognisable “resident” was kidnapped.
Coco the Gorilla normally takes pride of place in O’Flaherty’s Bar in the town and famously changes his look for many special occasions, not least at the weekend when he was all spruced up to congratulate a local couple [...]
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August 17th, 2010
The night manager of a Northern Ireland supermarket who told police he was forced to hand more than £36,000 takings from the store to thieves in Buncrana, has appeared in court charged with stealing the cash.
Derry Magistrates Court heard that during police interviews Michael Kearns (41), from Brecan Lea, Claudy admitted “it was his own [...]
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August 17th, 2010
The new Inishowen league season gets underway this weekend with games scheduled for both Friday and Sunday in the league cup kindly sponsored by William Grant.As usual there are some fascinating clashes down for decision and group C is the proverbial group of death with QPS, Clonmany and Moville all pitted together with Sea Rovers. [...]
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August 10th, 2010
Several hundred mourners attended the funeral on Thursday last of the Carndonagh bride killed in a freak accident three days after her wedding.
Caroline Cahalin (nee Farren) died when she lost her footing and fell 20 feet from a bridge at Tul na Rí in Carndonagh in the early hours of Sunday week last. She had [...]
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August 10th, 2010
Inishowen sides experienced mixed fortunes in the quarter final play-offs of the Donegal Intermediate Championship on Sunday.
Urris produced a determined performance at O’Donnell Park in Letterkenny to see off the challenge of a highly rated MacCumhaills side who had won convincingly at Straid two weeks previously.
John Friel’s side survived a late surge from the 14 [...]
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August 10th, 2010
A number of teachers and school staff in Inishowen could soon be cycling to school thanks to the reform of the “Cycle to Work” scheme.
The initiative allows a benefit-in-kind tax exemption to apply where an employee agrees to forego or sacrifice part of his or her salary to permit his or her employer to purchase [...]
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August 10th, 2010
Buncrana Town Councillor Joe Doherty has urged those currently waiting on a local authority home to be aware that two refusals will lead to them being placed at the bottom of the housing list.
At the recent Buncrana Town Council meeting, Cllr Doherty complimented officials on the amount of houses they had at the present time [...]
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August 10th, 2010
Buncrana Town Councillor Joe Doherty has urged those currently waiting on a local authority home to be aware that two refusals will lead to them being placed at the bottom of the housing list.
At the recent Buncrana Town Council meeting, Cllr Doherty complimented officials on the amount of houses they had at the present time [...]
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August 10th, 2010
An Inishowen duo defied all the odds at the weekend to swim one of the peninsula’s most treacherous stretches of water.
John Francis Doherty, from Clonmany, and Anne Devlin, from Tullagh, were among the first group of seven swimmers to conquer the 3.03 mile stretch from Glashedy Island to Tullagh Strand.
John Francis organised the challenge, one [...]
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