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Donegal Connections - Ezine Issue 5
A Chairde,
I am delighted to welcome you to the first edition of the 2018 Donegal Diaspora ezine “Donegal Connections” which continues to go from strength to strength since its initiation in 2017.
A new year brings new and inspiring stories from Donegal including exciting job opportunities, stories about why you might consider studying at the Letterkenny Institute of Technology to investment opportunities in a Donegal...
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Shay Given Honoured as Donegal Person of the Year! On Saturday night, 21st of April almost five hundred guests turned out to honour Shay Given as the 2017 Donegal Person of the Year in the Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin. The event which had originally...
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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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Local companies with their sights set on the US market have the opportunity to sign up for two cross-border trade mission trips taking in both Boston and Philadelphia this coming June and November.
The Ireland North West Trade Missions,...
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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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Donegal will have two businesses in the National Finals of the competition for Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) in March after Thomas McLaughlin of Tadáias and Ciara McGlynn from Niche Specialist Staffing Partners scooped their respective...
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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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Donegal County Council is delighted to announce the official opening of the Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Awards nomination process for 2018.
The Awards ceremony which is held annually in Donegal, an initiative of the broader Diaspora project...
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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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Organisation
- 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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