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Donegal recently hosted the 2023 National Famine Commemoration and here, the chairman of Ireland’s Great Hunger Bord in the U.S., proud Buncrana native and New York resident for the past 25 years, Turlough McConnell charts the extraordinary but largely overlooked story of one local man’s heroism and compassion during The Great Hunger, Adjunct Bishop Edward Maginn. This two-part profile of Bishop Maginn was extracted from Mr McConnell’s original contribution to the book Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger’, edited by Christine Kinealy, Jason King, and Gerard Moran (Cork and Hamden CT:...

On Friday, May 30 2003, the ‘Journal’ published the following article and pictures from Sugar Nightclub and Downey’s Bar karaoke competition. These pictures are published for the first time in print.

Derry City is deeply saddened by the death of Jim Crossan who gave a "lifetime of service" to football.

A local man and his family have raised a phenomenal £10,850 for the North West Cance Centre in Derry after he received first class care and treatment there.

The Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) said a 2.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of about 10km near Glenveagh National Park in Co Donegal at about 1:32 am on Saturday, May 6.