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On this week’s podcast, Ciaran O’Donnell talks to Letterkenny-based illustrator and graphic harvester, Ruth Graham. After studying illustration in Cornwall, Ruth took up a number of jobs on her return to Donegal before becoming self-employed in 2015. Ciaran also speaks to Helen Nolan, co-founder and CEO of Spraoi Agus Sport – the award-winning social enterprise which was established in Carndonagh in 2010. Helen says listening to and meeting the needs of the community have been key to the organisation’s success. Listen back here:

Business Matters Presenter Ciaran O'Donnell On this week’s Business Matters Podcast, Ciaran O’Donnell talks to well-known pharmacist, Tom Murray, who opened his first pharmacy in Ramelton in 2001. He has since opened chemists in Castlefinn and Convoy. Born in Coventry, Tom moved to Ireland in the nineties and worked as a manager with the Lloyds and Boots companies before becoming a community pharmacist which had always been his ambition. Tom is a member of the Pharmacy Contractors Committee IPU and heads up the Donegal branch of Border Communities Against Brexit.

Spanish property buyers to recoup €3 million UP TO twenty Donegal homebuyers who were caught cold by the Spanish property market crash are expected to recoup much of the €3m they paid for holiday homes that were never built. A ruling in Spain’s supreme court in December 2015 opened the way for hundreds of Irish people to claim directly from the banks rather than property developers, who promptly declared themselves bankrupt. It has been estimated Irish buyers are owed hundreds of millions in deposits and stage payments on properties purchased off-plan, most of which were never completed...

There’s always a notable stretch in the evenings when the anniversary of Bertie Fisher rolls around. Last Thursday week marked twenty years since the death of the rallying legend who enthralled the masses that lined the ditches, fields and side roads all over. During a 32-year career – his first event was as a navigator the Erne Safari Rally – the sporting icon notched up 43 victories. His titanic tussles with Austin McHale have become the stuff of rally folklore. On Sunday, January 21st, 2001, the Fisher family were a short distance from home when their helicopter crashed near the Ferm...

Advertisement Danny McDaid (left) with Jerry Kiernan at the opening of the Danny McDaid Athletics Track in 2013. Photo: Brian McDaid. Danny McDaid pays tribute to Jerry Kiernan Posted: 5:00 pm January 28, 2021 SHARE By Ciaran O’Donnell It was while he was heading home to New Mills from the family farm up on the hill last Thursday morning when Danny McDaid’s mobile phone rang. He pulled in to take the call from his brother. Frankie, who’s based in Dublin. It wasn’t good news. Jerry Kiernan had died in his sleep the night before. He was 67. Danny had been talking to Paddy M...