Mica homes’ social impact examined at Letterkenny conference
Eileen Long, a mother of three living in a mica-defective home on Inch Island slated for demolition, will be among the speakers at next Tuesday’s... Read More
Damian Dowds
Damian studied at NUI Maynooth and worked with Intel Ireland on graduation. Followings stints as a civil servant in Leinster House, and with magazine publisher Ashville Media, he returned to Inishowen to set up the Inishowen Independent in 2007.
Long Covid under examination at CCS
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A bout of glandular fever has led two students at Carndonagh CS to study the possible effects of long covid on school students nationwide. Ciara... Read More
Buncrana is Donegal’s tidiest town
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Buncrana continues to lead the way for Inishowen in the national SuperValu Tidy Towns competition. For the first time can now officially be described as... Read More
New social housing for Buncrana
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Much-needed social housing is to be built near the Cockhill Road in Buncrana. Sixteen new homes, a mixture of two and three-bed semi-detached two-story houses... Read More
Buncrana-Bridgend greenway mothballed after funding loss
The Buncrana-Bridgend greenway, the centrepiece of the North West Greenway Network announced five years ago, has been mothballed. The €10 million in EU funding allocated... Read More
Our ‘Jurassic Park experience’ finds safety along our coast
At Malin Head, Glengad and Greencastle, a frequent coastal visitor, the dauntingly large but placid basking shark, faced extinction. Now, due to a campaign led... Read More
Top changes for Mica Action Group
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The winds of change have blown through the Mica Action Group with the election of a new management committee at its annual general meeting last... Read More
Back to the drawing board at Scoil Íosagáin
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Scoil Íosagáin’slong-awaited new premises is as far away as ever after planning permission for its new state-of-the-art 25-classroom school was allowed to lapse by the... Read More
Major fish kill on Carn river
Inland Fisheries Ireland is investigating the circumstances surrounding a major fish kill on the Glenagannon River in Carndonagh, with legal proceedings likely to follow. More... Read More
Refugees welcomed as war rages on
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A further 50 refugees arrived in Inishowen last week, bringing the overall number of Ukrainians who have come here since April to almost 400. The... Read More