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Donegal Connections - Ezine Issue 1
I am delighted to welcome you to the Donegal Diaspora Newsletter “Donegal Connections”.
The Donegal Diaspora project was established in Donegal County Council with the aim of connecting with the Donegal Global Community wherever you may be living.
In this ezine you will find information on the nomination process for the 2017 Tip O’Neill Award which is open for nominations until the end of May 2017.
In addition, you...
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Four Diaspora ambassadors to be awarded prestigious Tip O’Neill Award
The 2017 recipients of the prestigious Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Awards were announced recently at a special reception in the County House in Lifford...
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Donegal County Council is delighted to announce the official opening of the Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Awards nomination process for 2017.
Here in Donegal we are very proud of our strong connections with the wider global family across the...
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A major homecoming event was staged in Kieran’s home town of Ballyliffin last night where he runs his successful business “Nancy’s Barn”
The official homecoming function was organised to mark the return of Kieran and his team who won the...
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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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Stephen McCahill honoured as Donegal Person of the Year!
On Saturday night, 4th of March over five hundred people turned out to honour Stephen McCahill as the 2016 Donegal Person of the Year in the...
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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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