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From Croker to the Hills: how one song defines Donegal GAA pride

Sunday, September 23rd, 2012. I'm freshly fifteen years old, and standing in the lower Davin stand. I'm with my older sister, and we're alone in a crowd of eighty thousand people.

Pop Culture • 25 Jul

Donegal's legendary 1992 All-Ireland win is celebrated at this year's SOUND! Festival

Classic Donegal GAA final to screen with live musical soundtrack

This May, the Regional Cultural Centre (RCC) in Letterkenny will host a special event commemorating a landmark moment in Irish sporting history: Donegal's first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship victory, achieved on September 20, 1992.

Festivals • 02 May

Bridie Gallagher: The Girl From Donegal - an Irish style icon

Bespoke gowns from the 50s, 60s and 70s, which belonged to legendary Donegal singer Bridie Gallagher, have found a home in Letterkenny's An Grianan Theatre...

Fashion • 29 Jan

The anarchic comedy Apocalypse Clown opens this year's Dissappear Here festival

Disappear Here film festival returns to Donegal

Film • 25 Sep 23

Jimmy's Winnin' Matches: Donegal's GAA triumph revisited onstage

The GAA has often been described as the heart and soul of rural Ireland. In Donegal man Kieran Kelly's new play, coming to this year's Earagail Arts Festival, we discover just what that means...

Theatre • 04 Jul 23

Journalist Kathy Donaghy at Kinnego Bay, Inishowen, County Donegal.

How a move to the edge of Ireland brought me home

After moving back to her homeplace on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal with her young family, journalist Kathy Donaghy's life changed in ways she never saw coming.

Books • 18 Feb 23