A Yorkshire adventurer is planning to land on the disputed rock of Rockall off the Donegal coast in June – to plant a plaque on behalf of the British Queen and in doing so to re-establish the UK’s symbolic claim over the uninhabited landmark.

DONEGAL volunteers for The Belarussian Orphanage Programme have appealed for local people to help them with an ambitious new project and they will be holding an information evening in the Ramada Hotel, Letterkenny, on March 1st.

A motion from Donegal TD Joe McHugh calling for a feasibility study into the development of rail networks in the north-west of Ireland received the backing of eight major political parties at this week’s meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Cavan.

The number of people visiting Glenveagh National Park has reached record levels – and now there are plans for a further upgrading of facilities.

The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has claimed that the 31% increase in the number of patients being treated in Northern Ireland in 2009 was due to a backlog at Letterkenny General Hospital.

The sheer neglect and cruelty of donkeys in Donegal has prompted a local couple to set up a sanctuary.