When: Donegal school board meeting, June 12. School board members Lisa Albert and Janet Love were absent. What happened: The ...

The contract for the commencement of construction of a new library and an IT and education building at ATU’s Letterkenny campus has been signed. The progress on the project has been confirmed by the ...

A national school in Co Donegal has been granted planning permission for the construction of a special educational needs unit. Donegal county Council approved the development at Scoil Eoin Baiste at ...

There has been a call for more thatching courses around Ireland in order to save the "uniquely Irish craft". Fine Gael ...

The Irish craft of thatching is at risk of dying out unless greater investment is made into training a new generation of ...

A member of the Seanad is calling for courses to be made available through local ETBs to protect the traditional practice of ...

When asked what makes the Belcoo and Boho area special, Margaret said: “Wherever you are reared and wherever you did your shopping, and went to the local school, it's very social to you, “It embodies ...

Trainee thatcher David McFarren from the Donegal Thatching school working on a thatched cottage in Bunbeg, north-west Ireland. — AFP .

About two-thirds of the Doagh ­Famine Village, which tells the story of Ireland as well as the famine, on the Isle of ­Doagh in north Donegal, was gutted in a fire last Saturday afternoon.

David McFerran, a conservation joiner and thatcher from Moira shared his passion for thatch and explained why he decided to train as a thatcher: “I’ve always had this wee passion for thatch. I grew up ...