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Ten people were killed when the Applegreen Service Station was left in ruins following an explosion on a busy Friday afternoon.

A MAN who threw dried cow dung at two TDs attending a public meeting in Gort last week has refused to apologise. 

An Bord Pleanala has granted permission for the major Gort Biogas plant to go ahead, overturning previous rejection decisions by Galway County Council and creating what opponents have called “another potential environmental disaster” for South Galway.

  On this weeks podcast, Ciaran ODonnell speaks to Martina Rafferty, General Manager of the Waterfront Hotel in Dungloe, about the reopening of the four-star hotel which has been closed since January. Martina heads up a team of 60 at the hotel which has 49 bedrooms. Plans are at an advanced stage to add 15 new and bigger bedrooms to the popular hotel formerly known as Óstan na Rossan. Listen back here:

On this week’s Business Matters, Ciaran O’Donnell will be talking coaches, tours and cruises with James McGinley, owner of the McGinley Travel Group based in Magheraroarty. And for the weekly Backing Business segment, Ciaran will be checking in with Michael Tunney, Head of Enterprise at the Donegal Local Enterprise Office.

On this week’s Business Matters, Ciaran O’Donnell talks to Garrett Harte of Harte Media who will lead out on Tech North West Skillnet’s mentoring programme for tech company owners in the region, and Daithi Ramsay, box office and marketing manager at An Grianán Theatre in Letterkenny, who looks back on his 22 years at the famous entertainment venue. And for this week’s Business Matters segment, Ciaran is joined by Adult Guidance Counsellor and Coordinator of Donegal ETBâ�...

On this week’s Business Matters, Ciaran O’Donnell talks to Joe Devenney, co-founder of Crolly Distillery which produced its first casks of single malt whiskey last year, and Letterkenny Community Centre’s Management Committee Chairperson, Philip O’Kennedy, who speaks about the ambitious redevelopment plans for the well-known facility on Pearse Road. Joining Ciaran for the Backing Business segment is Michael Tunney, Head of Enterprise and Economic Development at the Donegal Local Enterpr...

On this week’s Business Matters podcast, Ciaran O’Donnell talks to Frankie Veldman, owner of Errigal Training Centre in Falcarragh which recently received approval from the Global Wind Energy Organisation to deliver all five modules of the basic safety training programme. And for this week’s Backing Business Segment, Ciaran is joined by Donegal ETB Course Recruitment Officer, Tara McGuire.

  The owner of a popular newspaper in Donegal has expressed frustration over little to no Government funding during the course of the pandemic. While the Government has spent millions on advertising, the bulk of the money has primarily gone to national media with the likes of standalone papers struggling to survive. Since the Covid outbreak began, advertising at the Tir Chonaill Tribune advertising collapsed by 98% with the paper having to decrease its weekly content from 40 to 32 pages. Edit...

On this week’s Business Matters Podcast, Ciaran O’Donnell talks to Tirconaill Tribune editor, John McAteer. After working on a freelance basis with the Donegal News for twenty years, John McAteer and his business partner, Francis Diver, set up the Tirconaill Tribune newspaper in February, 1991. Thirty years and almost 1,300 editions later, John says the Tribune team is still going strong. Listen back here: