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.

Asphalt plant for Burnfoot scrapped 2 min read

Asphalt plant for Burnfoot scrapped

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a decision by Donegal County Council and refused planning permission for a new asphalt manufacturing plant at Burnfoot. Council planners... Read More

€7.6m boost for Inishowen tourism 2 min read

€7.6m boost for Inishowen tourism

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

Only around 10% of visitors to the Wild Atlantic Way come as far north as Inishowen. Now, plans are in place to change this, by... Read More

Carndonagh Traders Association warns Inishowen businesses of email invoice fraud threat 3 min read

Carndonagh Traders Association warns Inishowen businesses of email invoice fraud threat

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

The Carndonagh Traders Association has issued a warning to all businesses in Inishowen to be on the alert for hackers after the association was defrauded... Read More

Mica homes’ social impact examined at Letterkenny conference 2 min read

Mica homes’ social impact examined at Letterkenny conference

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

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

Long Covid under examination at CCS 2 min read

Long Covid under examination at CCS

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

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 3 min read

Buncrana is Donegal’s tidiest town

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

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 2 min read

New social housing for Buncrana

Damian Dowds 1 year ago

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 4 min read

Buncrana-Bridgend greenway mothballed after funding loss

Damian Dowds 2 years ago

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 2 min read

Our ‘Jurassic Park experience’ finds safety along our coast

Damian Dowds 2 years ago

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 3 min read

Top changes for Mica Action Group

Damian Dowds 2 years ago

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