St Eunan’s College basketball team lifted the All-Ireland School Cup with a nine point win over Dublin’s Chanel College in yesterday’s final at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght.

County Donegal is the “wild child of the Irish family” and remains “stubbornly independent and largely ignored by those in Dublin’s distant driving seat,” according to the latest edition of the Lonely Planet travel guide.

Councils in Donegal are set to reduce the number of people that they employ by a further figure of 60 in 2010, it emerged this week.

Former Letterkenny Cllr. Damien Blake has won an MBA scholarship at the UCD Smurfit School worth €15,000.
The Letterkenny Institute of Technology research student was one of two winners in the competition run by The Irish Times, the other successful applicant being Colin Goulding from Dublin.

A National Wind Energy Academy is being established at Letterkenny Institute of Technology as part of a €500,000 initiative being backed by the Donegal County Development Board.

Five talented students from Co Donegal are among the 87 successful applicants who have received new scholarships for third level education from Bank of Ireland.