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Donegal Person of Year 2018 - Jason Black
Jason Black has been selected as Donegal Person of the year 2018! Jason was a well known and popular business owner in Letterkenny, before his profile rose as the first Donegal person to complete a successful ascent of Mount Everest. Since that achievement, he has cemented his reputation as a high altitude climber with his successful ascent of K2 among others. Jason was active in sporting circles as a young man and has continued his...
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Tip O’Neill 2018 Award recipients honoured
Over 220 guests attended the gala Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Award ceremony on Friday night in the Inishowen Gateway Hotel to honour this year’s worthy recipients; Boston based...
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From Diaspora Member to Donegal Based Business Owner – The GGT Story
Whats the Craic?
After about 6 months of living in Brighton I had become pretty good friends with the English lad...
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Jason Black has been selected as Donegal Person of the year 2018! Jason was a well known and popular business owner in Letterkenny, before his profile rose as the first Donegal person to complete a successful ascent of Mount Everest. Since that...
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Moira Ní Ghallachóir of mng.ie, a bilingual company which is working to develop and promote tourism in Donegal tells us her story.
Name of your business and description of what you do.
mng is a tourism enterprise,...
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This is Ireland’s most northerly building on the mainland. It was named ‘Banba’ after the mythological patron goddess of Ireland. It was built by the British in 1805 as a Napoleonic lookout tower to help defend against a possible French invasion...
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Saving an Important Literary Landmark in Donegal
Late last summer when Brian Friel was seriously ill, I thought about, not only the days and nights I had enjoyed in the playwright's company in Glenties at the MacGill Summer School which...
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Last spring I left Canada to return to Donegal for four months to answer the question: where is home and where do I belong?
Even though it had been 30 years since I left, I still think of Ireland as home. But Canada is also home, and since...
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Gweedore native Enya (Eithne Ni Bhraonain) was born in 1961, the sixth of nine children into the musical dynasty of the Brennan family. Her parents, Baba and Leo Brennan are great music lovers and encouraged their children in all varieties of...
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- Randox Teoranta researching and developing pioneering health technologies that are revolutionising healthcare and saving lives
- The Dungloe-based facility is offering world-class career opportunities for life scientists, engineers,...
CoLab provides early-stage and established science and technology companies with tailored business services and a flexible environment to grow. The aim of this centre is to enable business and academia to interact to create viable enterprises for...
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